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the Microsoft Surface pro really surprised me with how good it actually is I remember I bought the first surface two-in-one by Microsoft a couple of years ago and to be honest with you it was bad the performance was not good the keyboard really sucked and the battery life was just horrendous and eventually it just died so when Microsoft offered to lend me their new surface pro for a review I wanted to see how much they had improved over these couple of years and long story short I'm very impressed so in this video I figured we'll take a look at fire pros and cons with the surface pro but before we get into those let's take a look at the specifications of the laptop this specific model I have is equipped with the cobalt blue type cover it's also the i7 model paired with 16 gigs of ram and a half terabyte SSD now this specific configuration will cost you twenty two hundred dollars so it's definitely not cheap with that said though let's get started with the five probes and then get into the find cons first up is just the overall build and design and I'm gonna say they have done a phenomenal job choosing the materials and designing the surface pro everything from the stand to the shell of the laptop itself feels extremely sturdy and well designed and I really like how the keyboard when not in use acts like a really high-quality screen cover and going from laptop mode to tablet mode is as simple as just pulling the type cover off there's no buttons to do it just pull it off next up is Windows hello for logging in this is seriously a feature I think every new Windows laptop should have it's so easy to use just set it up once and every time you open the laptop it'll take you straight to the desktop in a matter of milliseconds my third Pro with the surface pro is how well it acts as a laptop and even though by definition the surface pro is more of a tablet it still works very well in laptop mode with the type cover now that's thanks to the high quality and very sturdy stand and also just the fact that the keyboard and trackpad feels like they should on a great laptop the trackpad for example is on par with my MacBook Pros trackpad which believe me I haven't been able to say about any other Windows machine before and the keyboard has a fairly long channel distance great quick controls and just a very nice feel to it number four on my list is that awesome display and while it doesn't have the super thin vessels like on the XPS laptop from Dell and it isn't 4k or OLED it looks so good and the touch functionality works so well don't get me wrong though it's still got a pretty high resolution of 27 36 by 1824 and if you think that resolution seems a bit weird that's because it has a 3x2 aspect ratio display which i think is actually fantastic on a laptop / tablet like this one number five on my list of significant pros with the surface pro is its awesome battery life it really surprised me how good of a battery life I got with it even with the highest spec i7 model and 16 gigs of ram paired to that awesome display keep in mind also that the entirety of the computer is behind the display it doesn't even have an extra battery inside of the type cover like for example on the Dell 72 85 s keyboard part has so number wise I got around 7 to 10 hours of use with the laptop before it died now that's awesome so with the pros done let's get into the cons starting with the port selection it only has one full size USB port a headphone jack a mini DisplayPort and of course the charging port now you can expand this with a dock that you connect to the charging port but the dock is very expensive and you can only get one dock the one that Microsoft makes so my ideal port selection would be something like 2 full size USB ports a headphone jack an SD card reader and two USB type-c done about 3 ports and you could use one of them as a charging port that would in my opinion be the ideal port selection for this laptop next up I would have loved to see different colors available and I mean the actual tablet itself and not the type covers now I do realize that this is a he huge nitpick and doesn't matter at all the surface pro is actually really that good so I can only complain about these small things so in terms of color choices I would love to see in matte black one is Space Gray one and also the colors available on the surface laptop like Burgundy cobalt blue etc next up is the speakers and while they're not horrible they're not very good either so don't expect them to be on the level of the new MacBook Pros for example my fourth con with the surface pro is the camera and inbuilt microphone they kind of suck and yeah I know most of you don't care about that and to be honest with you I don't really either but it's still a comp now my last con with it is the price and that's because well to put it lightly it's not cheap by any means this model as mentioned before costs a whopping twenty two hundred dollars and features a dual-core CPU so as a conclusion the surface pro is a great 2 in 1 laptop probably even the best one I've ever used their build quality is amazing the type cover is great and so it's battery life however the port selection is weak and it has a pretty steep price tag for a dual-core machine so let me know what you guys think of the surface pro in the comment section down below leave your like if you enjoyed this video subscribe if you loved it and I'll catch you guys in the next video peace