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this is comfy here I feel good and this is the face of a man recovering from a super bad flu but I'm here talking about surface book and the MacBook Pro because I love this stuff and I want to talk about technology with you so you couldn't guess it topic is videos all about your questions on the updated surface book with performance base and the new MacBook Pro with touch bar of which we went on more coverage coming up let's go ahead and jump right into the question so as a touch bar really useful for editing if you edit right now in Premiere Pro the note because nobody hasn't done anything with it but if you edit in Final Cut surprisingly useful you can change audio levels in track you can scrub actually found myself using it a lot but the caveat is if you dock your computer like I usually do whenever I do some editing then the touch bar is not that useful for me but if you use your laptop to edit with the screen open the touch bar is surprisingly helpful there's a lot to like about the MacBook Pro I think the touch bar certainly is a highlight I would love to say battery life is outstanding but mine has has not been but I think aside from the touch bar the new screen looks really nice resolution hasn't changed the color gamut way better I like to do thinner bezels the screen is really nice outdoors as well it's way less reflective so screen and touch bar so you get two for two for the price of one oh man build quality these are probably some of the two best made laptops that I have ever tested I think if I'm relying solely on build quality I think I'm gonna give it to the MacBook Pro but probably for a backhanded reason because it doesn't have to have gaps where the screen will pop off which is a benefit of the surface book so I don't want a knock knock it for having that I have to pick one though I think the Apple MacBook Pro really has build quality down pat so Windows and I think rightfully so got kind of a bad reputation for not really smooth scrolling especially on a trackpad I don't know that the case with other Windows laptops but on the surface book is really good the glass trackpad really responsive I had no issues with scrolling multi-touch gestures worked well it works as well as anything I've tested from Apple so don't worry about that at all as far as the hinge it does have a little bit of floppy flashiness in it that's been a knock that I had on both generations of surface book but I do like how the hinge kind of unrolls and when you hold it to us to feel like you're holding kind of a spiral notebook and it does kind of it's got a cool factor we have to deal with the gap in there so it's kind of give-and-take with the hinge whether or not you're sort of pro or con I think I like the way it looks but I wish it was a little more stable so a kind of interesting question and sort of boils down to is Windows or any OS need a touchscreen and I think if you haven't used a touchscreen OS like Windows 10 it's a very valid question to ask I found myself very often just scrolling with my finger through a website that was really the only time that I used touch when it was docked like a laptop but he was like a tablet certainly I used touch a lot more so yeah for me it was very useful isn't necessarily no it is absolutely not necessary you can do everything you want with the keyboard and a mouse but I like having that added flexibility when I need it it was there when I didn't need it I didn't have to use it I think Apple doe is onto something with the touch bar and I said this in review I was very dubious with a touch bar but it works very well and I think it's got a lot of potential developers get on board with what it can do so it's kind of different approaches to the same means I wish that you had the option to do everything you could touch the screen all over use a touch bar apples made it very clear that touchscreen os's are not coming to Mac OS so I recommend trying both and see which one you prefer probably 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these two behemoths head-to-head but I wanted to sort of answer your questions about it let you know we have more coverage coming and also we can help direct our coverage in the future for what you guys want to see save that comments down below what else you want to see these two computers do and we will do it to you because we love this stuff thanks for giving us the opportunity to do it the next time John right in here from TechnoBuffalo