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hey what up but it good Oh happy Friday everyone so a couple of serendipitous things sort of happened here one I was in the middle of working on a video actually come check this thing out so this is the GPD pocket 2 now naturally my efforts to make my video about it today have been interfered with by Windows Update and so it's been installing this update for the last well over an hour now but you know it's hey it's it's chugging along there at 17% so that's pretty good and then I realized that our surface go care package from Microsoft actually arrived and what's interesting about these two devices is that while they might not really look very similar on the surface really nothing nothing thank you while they might not look very similar on the surface under the hood they are actually more comparable than you might think so the surface go is using what is it a 44 there it is a 44 15y processor what do you like Brendon do you like the unboxing on black or the unboxing on woodgrain which do you like the wood grain alright we're gonna do the wood grain so it's got a 44 15y processor four gigs or eight gigs of RAM it's got 64 gigs or 128 gigs of storage acclaimed nine hours of battery life and well this one's got a very tablet like form factor so all of those specs are actually really similar to this guy right here so this is running an n3 7 Y 30 CPU which sounds really different from a Pentium Gold 44 15y but in terms of the specs this one's got a base clock of I think only one gigahertz but runs at about 1.5 to 1.7 most of the time whereas this one has a base clock of 1.6 they're both dual-core quad threaded processors and don't know how this one turbos yet but this also comes with four or eight gigs of RAM and I think it starts at 128 gigs of storage so the pricing for that is about 600 and then the pricing for a surface go with the Inca grams back and 128 gigs of storage is about 549 so the question becomes would you rather something more tablet e with a bigger screen that has what I've always kind of referred to as with tablets and uncarrier ball form factor or would you prefer something that similar in spec but that will fit in your pocket because that's their hole that's their whole Jam with this thing is that you can you can actually fit it in your pocket and I'm not gonna do it right now because I don't want it to go to sleep in the middle of a Windows Update but but there's my there's my pocket and that's kind of where it would go you know maybe we can do it later when it's Windows updates so while this gets started with the hole initialization process we can kind of walk through the physical aspects of this device I'm actually really impressed with it so far like it doesn't have there it's a funny thing about the feeling of a device because sometimes like with with a shoe you know you might pick up a shoe and go wow this is really light like this is quality this is gonna be great for jogging and then you know other times you might pick something up and go you know okay sure you know it's here something like a piece of audio equipment you know like if you picked up something like like a an XLR interface device and look I will deal with you later Cortana so if you pick up something like an XLR interface and it's really light it feels like oh well you know I paid $200 or $300 for this and there's nothing inside it that sucks that's cheap this manages a really really nice middle ground where it actually feels light the device is only about half of a kilogram but it doesn't feel cheap so it's got the same metal I think it's some kind of magnesium alloy that they always use on surface devices here and then it's kind of like a two-tone finish to it with the webcam up here and then it's got okay so this is according to Microsoft anyway it's got a surface grade kickstand but I haven't actually tried it yet yeah yeah the hinge feels good so this is not the kind of thing that you would normally find in a $400 laptop like if you buy a $400 laptop you're generally ending up with something that is very plastic II kind of cheap feeling no I don't want at us I want to get this going before we before we go much further so that it can do its hey we're just getting set up for you wow I don't know why this wasn't done out of the box but you know like when you finish installing an update and then it's like you're done then it takes you to the login screen and then you get there and you log in and it's like hey please wait while we finished up no no finish up before don't finish up now you told me you were done sorry let me just get my Wi-Fi password in here I'm just gonna throw in some extra motions so that hopefully you guys can't reverse engineer my password here because that would be really really inconvenient really inconvenient for me I would have to take a whole probably about 6 minutes or so log into my interface and then change that all right now we have some important setup to do surely you couldn't have done that before anyway let's have a look at what we've got in terms of accessories before we before we go much further here ooh oh oh I have I have a LeBeau nice for people who are watching live Microsoft sent over a $25 Windows gift card presumably this is for the win you can't have it Jake Jake's like reaching in his pocket trying to trying to get a whatever he was planning to do ready there so I'm gonna no no no you can't have a Jake this is going to be for the viewers this this is for the viewers they're gonna be able to see it they're gonna be able to see it with our high quality stupid red camera livestream here so presumably you can buy crap in the Windows Store with this it actually comes in that Windows s mode where you can only get things out of the store oh oh who can redeem it first let's find out and it's gone and it's gone so hopefully someone can get their hands on that 25 bucks cuz I don't really buy stuff in the Windows Store then watch me like get to some point where I'm like setting this up and like all crap I really need really really need something from the Windows Store right about now I think you can make it out you can make it out you can make it out we got this so as you can expect as you would expect for 400 bucks even though you're getting a machine with surprising build quality you're not getting much in terms of accessories in fact that's all there was there was these little pieces of paper which is like showing you where the volume button is and stuff and then how the hinge works and all that because you need a lot of help with your new surface go and then this you get a you get a power adapter so this is the first surface that I'm aware of actually that charges over USB type-c that's pretty cool oh wait no crap okay as far as I know it does charge over USB type-c and we're gonna test that but they went and they included the surface the the surface what's what's that thing called surface connect connector instead so let's go ahead and plug this bad boy yeah I will try the type-c thing on the stream because okay so the surface connect finally has an adapter now that you can buy you can get a little a little hub that turns this connector it's like this really bulky thing though into a single USB 3.1 type-c so that's one option or my understanding is that this type C adapter will work and I've got a couple of type C dongles ready so I can try those out I'm just gonna go ahead and use an offline account they really don't want you doing this anymore they they're like yeah are you are you sure are you sure yeah I'm sure okay my name is Linus my name is Linus and I'm gonna use this PC no I don't want to password okay cool just oh sure sure I'm gonna let Cortana be my personal assistant sure whatever tilt forward is that what you like sure all right cool almost done polishing things up sure okay thanks for that actually this is a good opportunity for us to check out i/o so the USB see that I mentioned before we've got a three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack we've got this dock that requires unfortunately a bulky not to mention $80 adapter in order to turn it into anything other than charging for this if you wanted to just turn it into another type C port though I'm very grateful Microsoft included this one wish it was thunderbolt but again this is a four hundred to five hundred and fifty dollar machine so we can't be we can't get too greedy we've got their magnetic keyboard connector down here we've actually got a keyboard will plug that in after microSD expansion which now you can get micro SD s up to 512 gigs so that actually gives you a very reasonable amount of storage expansion and then yeah that's that's pretty much it I do want to check out the webcam because apparently this machine has Windows hello facial recognition for sign in which is a fantastic feature one that I wish every Windows laptop had like every single one it is hands down the fastest most convenient way to sign into a Windows machine alright so this is the signature type cover let's go ahead and pop this bad boy open assuming that I can figure out how exactly it is that they sealed sourced from Italy of Cantara Alcantara I think it's Alcantara Alcantara okay I said it right the first time I've had to clarify this multiple times because like all the car people always like you idiot it's it's open to Alcantara alright alright because apparently this is a this is a material that car people are very very intimately familiar with but but computer people have only been treated to it by Microsoft I'm not aware of anyone else who's really used it just a moment oh wow that was great timing actually very nice so ok the magnetic docking mechanism feels Wow that's nice just as strong as we've come to expect from a surface device it's really easy to pop on there not a single time has it managed to be misaligned so that's great hmm really nice to see now we can go ahead and pop the kickstand open same thing this mechanism feels really good I mean even going back to the surface RT like that was the first time we saw what was intended to be a low cost surface device Microsoft has done a really good job of not cheaping out on what makes a device a surface so it's four hundred bucks but it still feels good it still has a nice high-quality hinge in it cuz that's the kind of stuff that breaks on a cheap laptop that's the kind of stuff that drives you crazy or I mean you know back to the back to the car thing that's the kind of thing that breaks on a cheap car like my Civic the engine I think is gonna run literally forever but even when I got it which was about how about ten years ago now oh ok so even when I got it about ten years ago the the like the fabric door finishes we're already peeling off because of the cheap glue in the factory like it's that little crappy stuff that starts to break down on a cheap commodity device that makes it so you have to replace it because quite frankly compared to the atom type processor that was in the last generation of the GPD pocket I've actually got it sitting over there because it's been also in Windows Update hell compared to the atom based processors that we found in super compact machines of yesteryear these KB Lake based chips are actually fast enough for a lot of basic tasks so let's have I really want to see what we're gonna get out of this thing in terms of turbo speed because it's a six watch hip but configurable down to four hundred four and a half watts I think whereas this guy is a seven watt chip and this is not a good indicator so I actually had assumed that it was simply because Intel's Ark site was incomplete what is it 44 15 why yeah that's right I had assumed it was because Intel's Ark site was incomplete that it didn't have turbo information but it occurs to me now that this is a Pentium branded chip and who it might not it might not have turbo boost okay why I hate being in a nutshell and my apologies to anyone from Microsoft watching this but Bing is bad and it should feel bad okay in its defense I type out this I put in 40 for 125 why instead of 44 15 why but I pretty much guarantee Google's gonna get it no no whoa Google just got beat by Bing okay so Google assumed by arc AR K and in an Intel processor identifier lookup thing they assumed in an AR C so I ended up with a bunch of drilling companies with a 44 125 zip code Bing by contrast ended up with Ark survival evolved some other random crap like PDFs okay so Bing just returned some useless garbage sometimes but it managed to return some results for Ark even though they are for a different model so I you know what I'm declaring that a victory for being I had I had meant to demonstrate that Bing was bad but actually it did better alright Louis let's get the right thing looked up here so 161 dollars that's interesting so this processor actually costs about $100 more even though the 8 gig 128 configuration only costs about $50 more than this so what you're paying extra for in the case of something like a surface go looks like a bigger display it's actually yep IPS display looks pretty nice let's go ahead and crank the brightness and see what we're looking at here actually that's not too shabby at all so you can see it's quite a bit brighter than the pocket - so you're paying for a bigger display you're paying for just plain larger device there's more materials cost that goes into it there's more packaging all those things add up and then you're also paying for actually its speakers stereo speakers looks like it's nice to have this has only a single speaker that's coming from kind of under the keyboard here somewhere and then I want to have a look at how the YouTube playback experience is this keyboard is really actually Wow my initial impressions of it are absolutely great considering how how low-profile it is I actually haven't used a surface like a type cover extensively in quite some time because alex has been our laptop reviews editor for wow I guess it must be well over a year now but it is amazing how much tactile feel they have managed to squeeze into sudden device 5 Internet's down that could be a problem are we back we're back yes success okay so if we were to align based on let's say the tab okay so the edge of the tab is right about there your Enter key is looks like a boat where you'd expect your quotation to be so it's gonna take some practice see I've got quite small hands but even for me my fingers are almost right up against each other in order to sit on the home row with only my pinkie having what I would consider to be a suitable amount of spacing practice makes perfect for anything like don't necessarily see it being a huge concern what I am a little bit worried about though is the performance I'm gonna grab I'm gonna grab some avenge here honestly I'll tell you guys right now the reason that we had decided to do a stream of this today was one Friday's are usually LAN show and so we don't have a normal release so they're a good time to put up like a sponsored piece or or a live stream of something that we otherwise might not have covered and - I wasn't sure if we were gonna do a full review of this thing but I'm actually getting to the point now where I am I am pretty impressed with it and I'd love to hear from you guys in the comments let me know if you'd like if you'd like us to spend a good couple weeks with this thing and really put it through the paces so far the build quality is what really sets itself apart now one thing that's a little frustrating not just about the surface go but about a lot of devices like it is that you've got this really low advertised starting price but I almost feel like it's a little bit deceptive because no one should actually spend $400 on a surface go people want a full review okay all right yeah we can we can probably arrange that so I find it a little bit deceptive because if you look over here you've got a couple of SKUs and there's something that's kind of missing to the average consumer who's shopping for a surface go they might look at that and go well I only need 64 gigs of storage I'm just gonna put a micro sd in for additional storage anyway but what's not mentioned here are we down is this our