WEBVTT 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:08.080 oh my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined honestly speaking i was 00:00:06.399 --> 00:00:13.679 afraid that microsoft was just gonna let the surface lineup quietly die i mean 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:18.960 years ago they made some nearly perfect devices and then just 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:20.400 didn't fix small issues for years while 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:23.760 all of the other Windows machines on the market leapfrogged them 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:29.920 until today this is the all-new 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:33.200 surface laptop studio and for a lot of 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:36.079 people this might very well be the best 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:40.160 Windows laptop on the market and today's video is brought to you by antlion audio 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:44.320 their modmic wireless microphone delivers best-in-class audio quality 12 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:48.000 plus hours of battery life and it can magnetically mount to almost any 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:53.160 headphone get 15 off the mod mic wireless and other mod mic products at 00:00:49.440 --> 00:00:53.160 the link down below 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:05.199 but lioness you might say after your investment in framework how can you 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:08.720 possibly declare something else to be the best Windows laptop on the market 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:14.159 well it starts with the display this 00:01:11.360 --> 00:01:19.200 is the new benchmark for how displays on Windows machines should work it has a 00:01:16.479 --> 00:01:23.200 120 hertz refresh rate so everything from dragging around a window to just 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:27.920 interacting with the machine feels snappier while also making you a better 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:34.400 gamer of course it has the classic surface three by two aspect ratio and 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:35.759 it can do this whoa whoa hold on a 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:40.560 second okay no we're going to talk about that a little bit more later 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:44.000 so cool my only real complaint about the screen is 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:49.119 the rounded corners and i don't mean rounded in software like the the display 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.280 has rounded corners it's got some pixels hacked off this is something that can 00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:56.880 make sense on a phone where they have a super high screen to body ratio and 00:01:55.119 --> 00:02:01.520 they're meant to sit comfortably in the palm of your hand which is round here 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:06.560 though i don't get it like the mouse even moves all the way 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:11.760 into the corner so i'm pretty sure Windows is just treating this display 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:14.080 like there's some phantom pixels there 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:17.440 one problem that this gorgeous high refresh rate screen brings to light 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:22.400 though is the pulling rate of the track pad according to mouse rate checker this 00:02:20.160 --> 00:02:29.920 track pad is pulling at it looks like probably 144 hertz which was totally 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:32.640 fine with a 60hz display but now could 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:36.400 result in nearly a frame between when you interact with your touchpad and when 00:02:34.720 --> 00:02:40.959 that gets turned into useful movement now to be clear i don't think that any 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:46.400 laptop makers out there have dealt with this yet and it is a lot less obvious on 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:49.680 the surface than it is on the hp z book review coming soon make sure you're 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:54.160 subscribed by the way but it seems like a really easy way for microsoft to make 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:57.760 this device truly feel way more responsive just like phone 00:02:56.239 --> 00:03:03.440 manufacturers are doing with their touch screens where you'll see that the pulling rate of the touchscreen is 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:06.480 usually double or more compared to the refresh rate of the display to 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:10.800 demonstrate why this matters we'll do a classic demo moving a mouse cursor back 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:14.959 and forth across a dark background you see those differences in the spacing of 00:03:12.959 --> 00:03:19.040 the pointer that's because sometimes the frame gets refreshed immediately after 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:22.879 the track pad was pulled and other times there's that gap and you can see the 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:26.560 difference when you plug in an external device like this final mouse thousand 00:03:24.799 --> 00:03:33.040 herzegure i think that's what the model is called by the way thank you very much dell for 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.440 actually including this usbc to a and 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:38.879 HDMI adapter with your laptops microsoft didn't seem to feel that was necessary 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:43.280 in spite of the fact that the surface has i don't know what to call this i o other 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:48.400 than surface headphone microphone combo jack their 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:53.280 proprietary bullet connector and then two at least thankfully Thunderbolt 4 00:03:50.959 --> 00:03:57.840 ports so that's an improvement but no usb type a as expected yeah that's 00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:01.040 visible to the naked eye it's i mean it's not perfect it's just that when 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:06.080 you're pulling at a thousand hertz those differences are much smaller don't get 00:04:03.519 --> 00:04:11.200 me wrong though this trackpad it's really good maybe even exceptional the 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:15.519 size is solid the tracking is accurate and now instead of a click they're using 00:04:13.519 --> 00:04:19.040 haptic feedback so you can actually tune the force to your liking i do wish they 00:04:17.359 --> 00:04:23.840 gave us a bit more tuning options like we had in the sensel software but this 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:29.360 is still an easy a plus trackpad also an easy a plus keyboard surface 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:33.040 devices have always had pretty solid keyboards with the 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:37.440 exceptions being the ones that you clipped onto them those were not 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:40.720 always great but this one 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:45.520 feels good even compared to the good ones the keys are snappier than on the 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.720 surface laptop and on the surface book but there is still enough travel to 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:53.600 prevent fatigue when you're typing all day add in the exceptional chassis 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:57.759 rigidity and you've got one of the best mobile keyboards on the market what we 00:04:55.520 --> 00:05:02.880 haven't discussed just yet though is the performance and the reason 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.960 is that it is one of the low lights of the device i mean it's fine it's fine 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:12.479 for most people a core i7 11370h and an 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:14.560 rtx 3050 ti will be powerful enough for 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:20.320 anything they would want to do but the problem is that it comes in at a very 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:23.919 similar price to the xps 15 which has an 00:05:20.320 --> 00:05:25.199 8 core core i7 11800 h just to 00:05:23.919 --> 00:05:29.120 demonstrate this point we're going to run cinebench but it shouldn't be 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:32.240 surprising that when you have two processors using the same 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:37.280 architecture you could literally forget to start the one of 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:41.120 them that has twice as many cores and it'll still win 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:45.759 so if you plan to do a fair bit again 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:49.840 so if you plan to do a fair bit of gaming this isn't going to be the device 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:54.320 for you in fact i'd recommend something like the zephyrus g14 it's not only 00:05:52.080 --> 00:05:58.720 cheaper but it has a much faster rtx 3060 though if you manage your 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:03.520 expectations it's not like the surface laptop studio can't be used for gaming 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:07.039 this is hilarious totally off topic but can we just take a 00:06:05.039 --> 00:06:11.919 moment to appreciate how nice the surface finish is like is that why they 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:16.080 call them surface man that soft touch though 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:22.319 it's incredible you know this is incredible 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:24.479 110 FPS and forza horizon 4 on 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:28.160 a productivity laptop to be clear it's not cranked this is medium and we had to 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.639 turn the resolution down a little bit but from a reasonable distance laptop 00:06:30.479 --> 00:06:36.080 resolutions have gotten so high these days that you can turn them down a 00:06:33.919 --> 00:06:40.720 little bit and it's not just immediately interpolation city this thing is 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:45.120 freaking quiet like anyone else notice that or rather 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:48.680 not notice it oh yeah super quiet 00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:54.639 hello hello anybody in there 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:59.520 i should note by the way even though i complained there's no type a ports on the surface laptop studio there is one 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:04.000 on the power brick but that's just for charging that's not 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:07.280 for actually plugging in a usb device and using it so it's not like the 00:07:05.039 --> 00:07:11.680 Ethernet jack on the imac m1 the point of all this though is that quiet is 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:17.680 worth nothing unless it's all so cool and the surface laptop studio is 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:23.520 not particularly cool you can see that the palm rests are up in the 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:25.840 low 30s mid-30s on this side 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:30.720 meaning they're not uncomfortable but if you were gaming on a winter day you'd 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:34.400 have yourself a nice little little hand little hand warmer here of course you're 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:39.360 not buying this thing for gaming anyway are you gaming's a bonus you get it for 00:07:36.880 --> 00:07:42.800 this guy oh yeah 00:07:42.880 --> 00:07:49.120 man those are strong magnets aren't they 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:54.000 i mean it's one thing to have a stylist that like clips onto your device but 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:58.400 that's really really incredible and i love the way 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:02.080 that they've got it tucked away so that if you're sliding the laptop into your 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:05.039 bag or something like that it's not going to get caught on something and 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:09.280 fall off now obviously if you guys have ever seen 00:08:07.039 --> 00:08:14.160 my art you'll know i'm not qualified to evaluate the stylus so i handed it over 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.000 to the one and only sarah but to try it out for a bit 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:22.319 she felt that the feel was a bit cheap compared to the apple pencil but the 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.400 responsiveness is great with the surface laptop studio being able to handle 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.720 larger projects without slowing down something that can't be said for the 00:08:27.919 --> 00:08:35.519 ipad pro it wasn't all sunshine and roses though while the pen itself is 00:08:32.880 --> 00:08:40.320 great the problems she ran into had more to do with Windows having to regularly 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:44.880 switch between laptop and folded mode depending on the task and whether a real 00:08:42.640 --> 00:08:49.839 keyboard was required i mean this won't be a problem for your student who's just 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:53.920 taking notes in onedrive or whiteboard but if you're a professional using 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:57.279 photoshop daily their touch only support in Windows leaves much to be desired and 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.360 you're gonna you're gonna want an external set of peripherals and the same 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:04.080 could probably be said about the looks it's got this kind of 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:08.720 chunky two-tiered vibe from the outside and 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:12.399 from the inside it suffers a little bit from 00:09:09.839 --> 00:09:17.360 2015 macbook pro clone syndrome with the only distinctive feature being its gray 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:20.720 keyboard rather than it having a black one 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:23.279 that is until you do this 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:27.519 now this is far from the first two in one 00:09:25.920 --> 00:09:31.920 device on the market in fact they've been making these things for like 10 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:36.480 years now but what makes this one unique is not just the fact that it can be 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:40.480 operated in laptop mode i would call this something akin to 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:47.040 easel mode and then tablet mode audio mode studio mode yeah 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:49.120 studio mode this yeah this is a tablet 00:09:47.040 --> 00:09:53.279 not just that but the fact that it can switch between them so easily one of the 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:56.480 big problems with a device like this one from hp is that when you want to switch 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:00.720 from tablet mode because you just need to type something for a second you gotta 00:09:58.800 --> 00:10:04.959 unfold the whole thing type the type type type and then rip wait around for 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:09.600 Windows to register okay you're back in tablet mode with this 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:13.680 okay hey touch screen i need you out of the way for a sec boom 00:10:12.079 --> 00:10:19.839 and you're back it's really quick it's pretty cool what's less cool is 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:26.000 microsoft also sent us the surface ocean plastic for our 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:27.680 consideration it paired flawlessly with 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:32.800 our laptop and that's all i can really say about it 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:36.880 it looks stupid it has a low polling rate the ergonomics are terrible and 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:40.880 really the only question i have about it is why didn't you buy a real mouse what 00:10:39.040 --> 00:10:45.600 you might not wish you bought at least if microsoft is to be believed however 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:50.240 is additional speakers they apparently have a total of four downward firing 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:53.279 drivers on this machine that are supposed to give it really impressive 00:10:52.160 --> 00:10:57.120 sound and it takes a lot to impress us these days 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:01.760 in a world where apple's latest macbooks exist and honorable mention for dell honorable 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:05.120 mention for dell we're gonna compare it to that right now 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:10.959 okay let's hear adele that's not a dell that's crab rave 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:15.600 get it because it's adele thanks brandon 00:11:14.160 --> 00:11:17.920 not bad okay 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:23.959 way fuller sounding yeah 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:36.640 it's not close yeah wow wow that is damn impressive and what's 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:40.320 also apparently impressive though i haven't tried it yet is the webcam now 00:11:38.800 --> 00:11:45.040 i've gone ahead and i've gotten some little smudgies on there here we go 00:11:42.079 --> 00:11:48.079 Windows hello ready set hello hi how you doing 00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:52.800 boom signed in love it so this is 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:58.959 this is Linus central station here very respectable yeah without that 00:11:55.519 --> 00:12:00.320 unfair backlight behind it that looks 00:11:58.959 --> 00:12:03.600 you know pretty good i could do my morning makeup in there it's 1080p more 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:08.240 than almost every other webcam can say yeah 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:11.480 like dang not bad 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:23.760 what's a little more bad is the price the surface laptop studio technically 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:28.480 starts at sixteen hundred dollars but that one does not come with a dedicated 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:32.800 graphics card so the first laptop studio that you actually want is twenty one 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:37.200 hundred dollars far from cheap and that's even before 00:12:34.959 --> 00:12:41.279 you pay for a memory upgrade so if you bought this version and realized 00:12:39.040 --> 00:12:43.920 you know what i actually need 32 gigs of RAM 00:12:42.160 --> 00:12:47.600 are you screwed or is there any way to upgrade it after the fact 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:50.800 let's open it up and find out we haven't actually looked inside this yet because 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:55.360 although it's only four screws on the corners of the chassis they're hidden by 00:12:53.279 --> 00:13:00.079 the rubber feet making disassembly annoying and the potential device 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:04.240 looking kind of weird after pretty high so what microsoft says is this device 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:07.839 does not contain any user serviceable parts hard drive is only removable by an 00:13:06.560 --> 00:13:11.279 authorized technician following microsoft provided instructions here's 00:13:09.760 --> 00:13:14.240 an idea microsoft if the provided instructions are so 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:18.880 important why don't you provide them to everyone this is 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:25.680 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 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:28.480 that's not going back on right no 00:13:25.680 --> 00:13:33.279 big bummer this does not want to come apart that is not its plan 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:36.880 you are sure it's for or should i keep peeling this bet 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:41.199 they told me i asked in the meeting they told you a 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:46.240 big fat lie my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined all 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:48.720 they had to do was have four exposed screws 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:53.199 to make it so that this wouldn't have been necessary i think this is glued 00:13:50.959 --> 00:14:01.199 down oh i hate this so much so it looks like if i pry here we get a bit of oh 00:13:56.959 --> 00:14:02.720 that just broke some stuff i legit just 00:14:01.199 --> 00:14:08.399 don't get it what are we missing here 00:14:05.040 --> 00:14:10.800 can't get a pic in there can't get a 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:14.480 pry tool in there sorry microsoft i'm sorry viewers i'm sorry alex i'm sorry 00:14:12.880 --> 00:14:18.720 brandon that you have to witness this not sorry microsoft it's their fault 00:14:17.199 --> 00:14:23.600 oh sorry everyone okay what was it 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:30.079 it was a screw it was a screw okay well now we know 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:32.800 there's a fascia piece like a like a 00:14:30.079 --> 00:14:37.120 plastic sticker see this 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:40.639 there's a plastic sticker that covers up a couple of more screw holes here 00:14:40.800 --> 00:14:46.399 also the battery came with that yeah um 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:50.160 this is a really unusual battery configuration 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:54.880 so it's actually a good lord what is this like a six piece 00:14:52.880 --> 00:15:00.560 soft pack battery 56.3 watt hours 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:04.240 what how did they get 11 hours of battery life out of that 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:08.079 well hold on i can't tell well no this it can't be 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:12.639 just this one i was thinking maybe it's just this one and there's more capacity 00:15:10.160 --> 00:15:16.160 here but no that's really impressive that would have to be the whole thing 00:15:14.079 --> 00:15:20.240 for sure unfortunately we won't get a good look at the motherboard without 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:24.959 fully popping it off but i think there's a fair bit we can 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:28.959 see here we've got a one terabyte looks like customized SSD of some sort 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:33.279 they've at least done a fancy little microsoft heat spreader on 00:15:31.199 --> 00:15:33.279 it 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:42.800 oh boy yep standard m.2 just got a nice little 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:44.240 microsoft themed shield on it 00:15:42.800 --> 00:15:49.680 we really wanted to know the spec of this thing we could use a software to look at that this is cool super flat 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:54.320 heat pipe here going from the CPU over to an exhaust over here so the intake is 00:15:52.800 --> 00:15:57.920 all along the side here and then the exhaust is here and then you see the 00:15:56.079 --> 00:16:02.880 same thing on the other side where there is 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:06.880 where the hell's the heat pipe for this one at any rate there's another heat 00:16:04.800 --> 00:16:11.839 pipe that goes over to the GPU which is right here and then this is our 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:15.120 dedicated fan for that so it looks like 00:16:11.839 --> 00:16:16.639 the two coolers do not share CPU and GPU 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:21.920 cooling duty in any way yeah i like it i like it it's cool you 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:25.680 know what brandon we could go deeper but i think we know everything we need to 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:29.440 know if you don't order the right amount of RAM when you order you are 00:16:27.680 --> 00:16:33.839 plumb out of luck i think this is salvageable alex if we 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:38.639 just order if we can get replacement parts if we just order a new base 00:16:35.839 --> 00:16:42.399 battery thing and plunk it on here there is the issue of the smile to sort 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:46.000 out you can see it's a bit of a happy laptop 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:51.199 right now or sad depending on how you look at it 00:16:49.680 --> 00:16:54.000 it's i think we could probably mostly buff 00:16:52.959 --> 00:16:59.279 that out if you know what it means just kind of give it a little you know what whoa whoa 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:03.199 whoa i think i fixed it already yeah it's pretty straight hold on hold 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:06.720 on just gotta i mean that's the thing about these aluminum alloy 00:17:05.120 --> 00:17:11.520 chassis right you can just give it a little oh yeah 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:16.640 bottom line great battery life great track pad 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:21.199 amazing display utterly unique form factor very usable probably one of the 00:17:19.199 --> 00:17:25.919 best integrations of a stylus in a device that i've ever seen with those 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:28.880 nice strong magnets and all it costs you 00:17:25.919 --> 00:17:32.400 is that you will never ever ever open it up and hope to 00:17:31.120 --> 00:17:36.240 put it back together uh with upgraded components 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:39.520 and you will never ever hope to see a Linus tech 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