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what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here we are at the dawn of the surface pro 2 and Windows 8.1 make its commercial release I thought it was time to revisit the original combo of the surface pro and Windows 8 and I got a lot more to say about it it's go and get started surface surface RT and Windows 8 were overall not very good I thought it was crazy hard to learn the live tiles I thought worked on a phone but didn't necessarily translate to a computer and I didn't understand how everything worked where to swipe were to not swipe how to make things work just seemed like a total convoluted mess to me however I reserve the right to change my mind and as a journalist I feel I've got the right to change my mind when I use a product for a longer period of time usually we use products for one to tweak some review and then it goes in sits in a drawer not so with the surface pro so let me give you a bit of a back story about six weeks ago was a weekend there's a Saturday afternoon I was sitting at home and I had to do some updates on TechnoBuffalo and to fire on my MacBook Pro totus having some issues and wouldn't turn on so I went to the only other computer I have in my house the surface pro I had not used since probably about a year ago and I forced myself to learn how to use it that's where I started to see the beauty and the elegance of Windows 8 it took me crazy amount of time probably about 10 days to really go through it force myself had it used for myself to use it and learn if I really started to enjoy what it does so that an update my review it's not really a surface pro review or Windows 8 review more of an update of the combo and you can extrapolate what works for Windows 8 devices in general and what's unique just to the surface pro it's gonna get started so the first big issue I had was I had no idea what all the gestures did or how they worked my big one was in Internet Explorer well now when I fired been an explorer I know how to use it so I didn't know where the favorites were gonna go when you go ahead and open up a browser the favorites pin themselves all way over to the right if you swipe on over you can see them I've got a demo account here so you can't see all the other sites I've used that was our the first thing that I didn't know I discovered that it became very easy also I had preconceived notions about Internet Explorer like probably a lot of you - I didn't want to use Internet Explorer but the more I used it at least on the modern UI side the more I enjoyed it's a pretty elegant browser and it worked very well the tabs didn't make see how the tabs work now I clearly realize you swipe down all your tabs are there you can select the one that you want or move over select it deselect it close it whatever you want all your options are right there I could Fred convoluted how to go and change settings now it's very easy go ahead into settings you can jump into my change PC settings you can access everything that you want right there I also had issues here with how the touch cover worked and that sort of still maintain it's not very accurate if I go ahead hit the letters they don't always translate very well I got to go back and edit delete but I do think they're the combination of the touch cover and a surface pro is a really nice combination I find myself sitting on the lap and typing on this and typing out a ton of email so if I'm actually to be relatively elegant a couple of things that really like this is where I found the most useful thing about the surface pro is running two apps side by side take you back to my story so technical office was having issues and I on one window had to make edits to the side the other window I had to check email now to keep going back and forth having conversations with editor-in-chief Shawn Ani and I couldn't do all that in one window so I remembered hey wait a minute Windows 8 lets me do that if you swipe in and go ahead and view what you just did last you can swipe it again and go back out and get a full list where you're looking at let's say I want to go to the store I could go ahead and browse the store up my PC settings here if you know what I want to make that one window I can open that right there I want to go back and say you know what maybe I want to do an explorer and have that open and go ahead open that if I want to go back have to at the same time say about the surface or the store right there it go and have that running side-by-side to what I'm doing they're both run very independently I was actually pretty cool to see it if you just have one open for example if you want to close that one out if you drag your finger all the way down you can go ahead and pick where it opens on the side you can open up another application there's all these sort of little things that took a really long time to learn than I liked desktop as well something that I really enjoyed I liked that I could access the desktop and still have like you can see right here my modern apps open running side-by-side that was really useful i started using outlook on the desktop side still loving having be able to have the modern browser up that was very nice and a really nice touch and I wanted to give Microsoft credit I felt that it was due to update the review the battery life has been actually really awesome on the surface pro I don't do that much on it I unfortunately only bought the smaller versions I think gonna use it all that often turns out I wish I had more storage how love to keep getting Starcraft on here all my games load up all my emails sort of use this and almost my dedicated computer I do most of my editing for TechnoBuffalo and final cuts not gonna replace my office iMac but I can really really see myself only using this at home all those commercials are people talking about using the surface instead of an iPad I get now I like that I can watch flash a video on here not to worry about opening up an app to watch to youtube I can go right to YouTube on here and it just works the finger sensitivity is Austin multi-touch works really well the surface pro is a really solid device screen resolution is gorgeous not recommending picking up a Windows RT so you don't get all sort of the awesomeness the screen resolution blows at least as of right now but Windows 8 and 10 K Windows 8.1 is a really nice combination so I thought I was only fair to give Microsoft credit say you know what you guys did a better job than I thought I did and thirds only fair the audience if I changed my mind to show those impressions so what'd you guys think any given Windows 8 a fair shot then you got to give it a good 10 days of really dedicated you used to learn how to use it and it's a huge learning curve for someone who's willing to give it that time you really enjoy it if you're coming from Windows XP and just want to start using a computer you're gonna have a really hard time understanding what the heck is going on here but after you know my six weeks I'm gonna continue using the surface pro and I'm really excited with surface pro 2 and we guys love to hear your thoughts see them when they're coming so write down below until then I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo I'll see you the next video what's up everyone its Ashlee thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more tech videos from us here at TechnoBuffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more technology just click right over here to check out some of our most recent videos see you next time humans