{"video_id":"2Wwbo731jOQ","title":"Surface Laptop Studio Review Ended in DISASTER","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":1113,"segments":[{"start_s":0.96,"end_s":8.08,"text":"oh my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined honestly speaking i was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.399,"end_s":13.679,"text":"afraid that microsoft was just gonna let the surface lineup quietly die i mean","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.2,"end_s":18.96,"text":"years ago they made some nearly perfect devices and then just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.839,"end_s":20.4,"text":"didn't fix small issues for years while","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.96,"end_s":23.76,"text":"all of the other Windows machines on the market leapfrogged them","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.4,"end_s":29.92,"text":"until today this is the 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while all of the other Windows machines on the market leapfrogged them until today this is the all-new surface laptop studio and for a lot of people this might very well be the best Windows laptop on the market and today's video is brought to you by antlion audio their modmic wireless microphone delivers best-in-class audio quality 12 plus hours of battery life and it can magnetically mount to almost any headphone get 15 off the mod mic wireless and other mod mic products at the link down below but lioness you might say after your investment in framework how can you possibly declare something else to be the best Windows laptop on the market well it starts with the display this is the new benchmark for how displays on Windows machines should work it has a 120 hertz refresh rate so everything from dragging around a window to just interacting with the machine feels snappier while also making you a better gamer of course it has the classic surface three by two aspect ratio and it can do this whoa whoa hold on a second okay no we're going to talk about that a little bit more later so cool my only real complaint about the screen is the rounded corners and i don't mean rounded in software like the the display has rounded corners it's got some pixels hacked off this is something that can make sense on a phone where they have a super high screen to body ratio and they're meant to sit comfortably in the palm of your hand which is round here though i don't get it like the mouse even moves all the way into the corner so i'm pretty sure Windows is just treating this display like there's some phantom pixels there one problem that this gorgeous high refresh rate screen brings to light though is the pulling rate of the track pad according to mouse rate checker this track pad is pulling at it looks like probably 144 hertz which was totally fine with a 60hz display but now could result in nearly a frame between when you interact with your touchpad and when that gets turned into useful movement now to be clear i don't think that any laptop makers out there have dealt with this yet and it is a lot less obvious on the surface than it is on the hp z book review coming soon make sure you're subscribed by the way but it seems like a really easy way for microsoft to make this device truly feel way more responsive just like phone manufacturers are doing with their touch screens where you'll see that the pulling rate of the touchscreen is usually double or more compared to the refresh rate of the display to demonstrate why this matters we'll do a classic demo moving a mouse cursor back and forth across a dark background you see those differences in the spacing of the pointer that's because sometimes the frame gets refreshed immediately after the track pad was pulled and other times there's that gap and you can see the difference when you plug in an external device like this final mouse thousand herzegure i think that's what the model is called by the way thank you very much dell for actually including this usbc to a and HDMI adapter with your laptops microsoft didn't seem to feel that was necessary in spite of the fact that the surface has i don't know what to call this i o other than surface headphone microphone combo jack their proprietary bullet connector and then two at least thankfully Thunderbolt 4 ports so that's an improvement but no usb type a as expected yeah that's visible to the naked eye it's i mean it's not perfect it's just that when you're pulling at a thousand hertz those differences are much smaller don't get me wrong though this trackpad it's really good maybe even exceptional the size is solid the tracking is accurate and now instead of a click they're using haptic feedback so you can actually tune the force to your liking i do wish they gave us a bit more tuning options like we had in the sensel software but this is still an easy a plus trackpad also an easy a plus keyboard surface devices have always had pretty solid keyboards with the exceptions being the ones that you clipped onto them those were not always great but this one feels good even compared to the good ones the keys are snappier than on the surface laptop and on the surface book but there is still enough travel to prevent fatigue when you're typing all day add in the exceptional chassis rigidity and you've got one of the best mobile keyboards on the market what we haven't discussed just yet though is the performance and the reason is that it is one of the low lights of the device i mean it's fine it's fine for most people a core i7 11370h and an rtx 3050 ti will be powerful enough for anything they would want to do but the problem is that it comes in at a very similar price to the xps 15 which has an 8 core core i7 11800 h just to demonstrate this point we're going to run cinebench but it shouldn't be surprising that when you have two processors using the same architecture you could literally forget to start the one of them that has twice as many cores and it'll still win so if you plan to do a fair bit again so if you plan to do a fair bit of gaming this isn't going to be the device for you in fact i'd recommend something like the zephyrus g14 it's not only cheaper but it has a much faster rtx 3060 though if you manage your expectations it's not like the surface laptop studio can't be used for gaming this is hilarious totally off topic but can we just take a moment to appreciate how nice the surface finish is like is that why they call them surface man that soft touch though it's incredible you know this is incredible 110 FPS and forza horizon 4 on a productivity laptop to be clear it's not cranked this is medium and we had to turn the resolution down a little bit but from a reasonable distance laptop resolutions have gotten so high these days that you can turn them down a little bit and it's not just immediately interpolation city this thing is freaking quiet like anyone else notice that or rather not notice it oh yeah super quiet hello hello anybody in there i should note by the way even though i complained there's no type a ports on the surface laptop studio there is one on the power brick but that's just for charging that's not for actually plugging in a usb device and using it so it's not like the Ethernet jack on the imac m1 the point of all this though is that quiet is worth nothing unless it's all so cool and the surface laptop studio is not particularly cool you can see that the palm rests are up in the low 30s mid-30s on this side meaning they're not uncomfortable but if you were gaming on a winter day you'd have yourself a nice little little hand little hand warmer here of course you're not buying this thing for gaming anyway are you gaming's a bonus you get it for this guy oh yeah man those are strong magnets aren't they i mean it's one thing to have a stylist that like clips onto your device but that's really really incredible and i love the way that they've got it tucked away so that if you're sliding the laptop into your bag or something like that it's not going to get caught on something and fall off now obviously if you guys have ever seen my art you'll know i'm not qualified to evaluate the stylus so i handed it over to the one and only sarah but to try it out for a bit she felt that the feel was a bit cheap compared to the apple pencil but the responsiveness is great with the surface laptop studio being able to handle larger projects without slowing down something that can't be said for the ipad pro it wasn't all sunshine and roses though while the pen itself is great the problems she ran into had more to do with Windows having to regularly switch between laptop and folded mode depending on the task and whether a real keyboard was required i mean this won't be a problem for your student who's just taking notes in onedrive or whiteboard but if you're a professional using photoshop daily their touch only support in Windows leaves much to be desired and you're gonna you're gonna want an external set of peripherals and the same could probably be said about the looks it's got this kind of chunky two-tiered vibe from the outside and from the inside it suffers a little bit from 2015 macbook pro clone syndrome with the only distinctive feature being its gray keyboard rather than it having a black one that is until you do this now this is far from the first two in one device on the market in fact they've been making these things for like 10 years now but what makes this one unique is not just the fact that it can be operated in laptop mode i would call this something akin to easel mode and then tablet mode audio mode studio mode yeah studio mode this yeah this is a tablet not just that but the fact that it can switch between them so easily one of the big problems with a device like this one from hp is that when you want to switch from tablet mode because you just need to type something for a second you gotta unfold the whole thing type the type type type and then rip wait around for Windows to register okay you're back in tablet mode with this okay hey touch screen i need you out of the way for a sec boom and you're back it's really quick it's pretty cool what's less cool is microsoft also sent us the surface ocean plastic for our consideration it paired flawlessly with our laptop and that's all i can really say about it it looks stupid it has a low polling rate the ergonomics are terrible and really the only question i have about it is why didn't you buy a real mouse what you might not wish you bought at least if microsoft is to be believed however is additional speakers they apparently have a total of four downward firing drivers on this machine that are supposed to give it really impressive sound and it takes a lot to impress us these days in a world where apple's latest macbooks exist and honorable mention for dell honorable mention for dell we're gonna compare it to that right now okay let's hear adele that's not a dell that's crab rave get it because it's adele thanks brandon not bad okay way fuller sounding yeah it's not close yeah wow wow that is damn impressive and what's also apparently impressive though i haven't tried it yet is the webcam now i've gone ahead and i've gotten some little smudgies on there here we go Windows hello ready set hello hi how you doing boom signed in love it so this is this is Linus central station here very respectable yeah without that unfair backlight behind it that looks you know pretty good i could do my morning makeup in there it's 1080p more than almost every other webcam can say yeah like dang not bad what's a little more bad is the price the surface laptop studio technically starts at sixteen hundred dollars but that one does not come with a dedicated graphics card so the first laptop studio that you actually want is twenty one hundred dollars far from cheap and that's even before you pay for a memory upgrade so if you bought this version and realized you know what i actually need 32 gigs of RAM are you screwed or is there any way to upgrade it after the fact let's open it up and find out we haven't actually looked inside this yet because although it's only four screws on the corners of the chassis they're hidden by the rubber feet making disassembly annoying and the potential device looking kind of weird after pretty high so what microsoft says is this device does not contain any user serviceable parts hard drive is only removable by an authorized technician following microsoft provided instructions here's an idea microsoft if the provided instructions are so important why don't you provide them to everyone this is have you have you removed this rubber foot yet no i'm afraid i'm going to screw it up it's a pain in the butt that's not going back on right no big bummer this does not want to come apart that is not its plan you are sure it's for or should i keep peeling this bet they told me i asked in the meeting they told you a big fat lie my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined all they had to do was have four exposed screws to make it so that this wouldn't have been necessary i think this is glued down oh i hate this so much so it looks like if i pry here we get a bit of oh that just broke some stuff i legit just don't get it what are we missing here can't get a pic in there can't get a pry tool in there sorry microsoft i'm sorry viewers i'm sorry alex i'm sorry brandon that you have to witness this not sorry microsoft it's their fault oh sorry everyone okay what was it it was a screw it was a screw okay well now we know there's a fascia piece like a like a plastic sticker see this there's a plastic sticker that covers up a couple of more screw holes here also the battery came with that yeah um this is a really unusual battery configuration so it's actually a good lord what is this like a six piece soft pack battery 56.3 watt hours what how did they get 11 hours of battery life out of that well hold on i can't tell well no this it can't be just this one i was thinking maybe it's just this one and there's more capacity here but no that's really impressive that would have to be the whole thing for sure unfortunately we won't get a good look at the motherboard without fully popping it off but i think there's a fair bit we can see here we've got a one terabyte looks like customized SSD of some sort they've at least done a fancy little microsoft heat spreader on it oh boy yep standard m.2 just got a nice little microsoft themed shield on it we really wanted to know the spec of this thing we could use a software to look at that this is cool super flat heat pipe here going from the CPU over to an exhaust over here so the intake is all along the side here and then the exhaust is here and then you see the same thing on the other side where there is where the hell's the heat pipe for this one at any rate there's another heat pipe that goes over to the GPU which is right here and then this is our dedicated fan for that so it looks like the two coolers do not share CPU and GPU cooling duty in any way yeah i like it i like it it's cool you know what brandon we could go deeper but i think we know everything we need to know if you don't order the right amount of RAM when you order you are plumb out of luck i think this is salvageable alex if we just order if we can get replacement parts if we just order a new base battery thing and plunk it on here there is the issue of the smile to sort out you can see it's a bit of a happy laptop right now or sad depending on how you look at it it's i think we could probably mostly buff that out if you know what it means just kind of give it a little you know what whoa whoa whoa i think i fixed it already yeah it's pretty straight hold on hold on just gotta i mean that's the thing about these aluminum alloy chassis right you can just give it a little oh yeah bottom line great battery life great track pad amazing display utterly unique form factor very usable probably one of the best integrations of a stylus in a device that i've ever seen with those nice strong magnets and all it costs you is that you will never ever ever open it up and hope to put it back together uh with upgraded components and you will never ever hope to see a Linus tech tips video without this message from our sponsor do you think making a website is hard well it doesn't have to be use squarespace and you'll have your website up and running in a matter of hours maybe even less if your standards are as low as ours we have made websites like our linusmediagroup.com one especially that one and ltx expo website quickly using squarespace and if you ever have any trouble they have a 24 7 support team that is ready to help you out they've got tons of award-winning templates so no matter what you want to do your website's going to stand out instead of looking like it's from the 90s so don't wait go to squarespace.com LTT and you can get 10 off today if you guys are looking for another video to watch check out our review of the alienware x17 that is that is one sick gaming laptop sick like it has some problems no it doesn't they fixed them it just didn't tell us oh they fixed the problems and just oh well that's good"}