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I figured what good is filming a video in a doctor evil chair I couldn't do a dr. evil intro what's going on everybody I am John fret injure from TechnoBuffalo and this is the Microsoft Surface book and off camera is another Microsoft Surface book specifically both are the $2,100 I 7 model 256 gigabytes of storage 8 gigs of RAM and the dedicated GPU built right in we've been doing a lot of our testing for our products in the real world you don't want to do it in a vacuum CES just ended so we figured what better way to test the prowess that supposed service book has and by using it in probably the most strenuous situations in our industry the reason we got - I took one to use I use a computer for emailing running the business for videoconferencing and chatting where I'm free - got one for the opposite reasons for video editing to be a video powerhouse as its positioned to be so we tag-teamed this review we figured most people are going to fall somewhere in between either me or Ron so maybe you're a John or Ron or a Rachel or Monica but somewhere in between them we figure is where you're going to be so let's talk about the design of the surface books Microsoft did a lot of things right here first it looks awesome I felt there's a weird thing to say but I felt kind of kind of cool walk around with this thing I want many people had it at CSI only one other them there but it looks really nice and Microsoft did a lot of things well here build quality certainly being among among them when you go and open this thing up there's a lot of little things though that don't make much sense like no grip on the bottom they try and open it up things slides all over the place but once you do get it open you are greeted with probably the best keyboard I have ever typed on at all including anything in the app a lion or any other PC the keyboard here is incredible also incredible is this trackpad it's arguably the best trackpad that I've used certainly on par though with the new force touch trackpad found on the latest gen and MacBook Pros and MacBooks the hinge is another store in the service book it's probably one of these stores Microsoft is positioning it as so first the normal laptop open and closed like normal but you can go ahead and push aleejack button and take the whole screen off and treat it like a tablet you're not getting a dedicated GPU which is in the keyboard base but does have its own battery and use integrated graphic and it worked really well I did a video on top 5 things to expect from Faraday future I use it as a prompter I'm meeting with advertisers I was able to take the screen off turn it around and use it as a presentation mode for what we were planning for 2016 and beyond it was really handy to have of course no big Windows 10 is a touchscreen and bigging this futuristic hinge I expect something better than this look at that it's floppy that my friends is a flaccid hinge and a flaccid hinge is no fun something you are constant trying to touch whether using your finger or the included service pen which I've used quite a bit on my surface pro 4 at home which is my dedicated computer at home I didn't find myself using this really at all from ICS experience but if you do want to use it it's got some cool shortcuts to access one notes experience and doesn't work well and it will stick magnetically right to the side like that no more like hmmm there are a few windows quirks I found in knowing while I was at CES using the mail app for example I couldn't just drag an attachment into it I was trying to send an email somebody's already emailed me before their email address would automatically populate in a message just little small annoyances so that's just my side of the surface book coin there's a whole other perspective on it so romp reader out to you in the field so right off the bat I was disappointed now this is why I was disappointed not because the surface book is not a great computer or it can't get the job done the truth is is that it was advertised as the ultimate editing machine we saw this on sites like no film school not throw them under the bus Microsoft's press conference itself they were showcasing Adobe Premiere and saying how good it would be with premiere and it really wasn't I was using this at CES the whole time as John mention and I was just really disappointed with the overall performance now the export times really weren't that bad what really threw me off was just like working with in Premiere so like scrubbing over unrendered video when getting forest playback or even hackers playback or getting playback over multiple layers it just really wasn't as smooth as I thought it was going to be it was like stuttering all over the place and under heavy processing whether it be using a warp stabilizer or rendering the whole file out the mouse the cursor would just freak out so it could be a software issue but honestly just the experience as a whole wasn't that smooth given the advertising and all the hype behind it on the bright side though screen looked incredible it was just really sharp and really enjoyable to edit on and also from just consuming videos and content and sending emails and stuff text looks super super sharp and I know John enjoyed it as I did as well so something I was really pumped about was just the idea of getting to just go to tablet mode and just be editing on the go with just a screen or exporting while I'm walking or something like that those were instantly put to rest because the screen battery alone is not good at all for regular tasks especially for exporting which if any of you know is extremely power intensive and processing intensive you're going to be a regular user checking out your email browsing the web watching YouTube videos making document it doesn't make sense about the surface book over the surface pro 4 which is already a great device it feels as though Microsoft's product lines a little bit confused right now it would have made more sense if they just made a display and then made swappable basis some with dedicated GPUs some has just type covers and everything else in between so that's it for this video guys what do you think of the surface book I know I wasn't a huge fan I know John was a little bit disappointed as well it's still a great laptop it just doesn't make sense of where it falls in with Microsoft's product line versus the surface pro 4 and in competition with things like the MacBook Pro and razors new ultrabook with the external GPU and all those kind of products let us know what you think in the comments below would you pick one up give us a thumbs up if you liked this video hit that subscribe button and I'll see you guys in the next one thanks for watching you