1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,510 - This right here is the Surface Laptop too. And I'd consider probably the best laptop on the market, 2 00:00:05,510 --> 00:00:09,690 which might make you think, why has this Surface Laptop 3, 3 00:00:09,690 --> 00:00:14,370 which should be better in every way not made it into my hands yet. 4 00:00:14,370 --> 00:00:19,370 Well, it has and we just didn't really bother to cover it. 5 00:00:19,470 --> 00:00:24,620 So let's take a look at why 'cause I actually do think this might be the best laptop out. 6 00:00:24,620 --> 00:00:28,820 Just it would have been a lot better if it came out two years ago, 7 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:30,870 we just get to unbox it here, that's fun. 8 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:35,263 There we go, it's a laptop, wow. 9 00:00:36,540 --> 00:00:41,680 Who would've thought? And just, I really liked the finish on this one. 10 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:47,600 It's a bit, I don't know what you'd call it, a bit Applely for my taste almost, 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,110 but overall I'd say I really like it. You do have other options of course. 12 00:00:52,110 --> 00:00:53,310 I really liked this one. 13 00:00:55,210 --> 00:00:58,250 Moving on, you get your typical power cord 14 00:01:01,819 --> 00:01:06,470 I actually really like this. it's basically just mag safe except not. 15 00:01:06,470 --> 00:01:09,870 So you get the classic, you put it in here, 16 00:01:09,870 --> 00:01:13,213 you go and you trip over it, laptop's not dead, perfect. 17 00:01:14,310 --> 00:01:20,510 Then what else do we have, a little box that says Surface Laptop, 18 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:23,010 getting started, plugging the power cable 19 00:01:24,020 --> 00:01:29,020 press power button Windows will guide you, sure. 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,813 So here we have it, the Surface Laptop 3, 21 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,880 really the most interesting thing that I can see from just right here is that it has USB-C. 22 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,470 Who ever would have thought to include that on a laptop in 2019? 23 00:01:42,470 --> 00:01:48,890 Not Microsoft the first try around. I've had trouble working with like my TV and stuff, 24 00:01:48,890 --> 00:01:52,143 getting high quality dongles for it, It's just not that simple. 25 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,640 Opening it up though and we'll see their main reason 26 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,800 why I don't like this one too, oh, wow, it's already open. So Windows Hello is awesome. 27 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,300 If you couldn't tell I've already installed stuff on this 28 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:11,350 'cause we don't wanna spend the next hour just updating Windows that would be a pretty boring video, 29 00:02:11,350 --> 00:02:16,070 but Windows Hello is so quick on this thing. That's maybe my favorite feature of these 30 00:02:16,070 --> 00:02:19,400 because it's just so simple. You're just immediately in 31 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,850 and you're able to get to your work, but the big problem that we have here, 32 00:02:23,850 --> 00:02:28,490 where did the Alcantara go? It is an option but I just don't know 33 00:02:28,490 --> 00:02:34,140 why it's something that you want to give up. This just feels so smooth and it feels so great on the hands 34 00:02:34,140 --> 00:02:38,460 when you're typing, this feels well, it feels great, 35 00:02:38,460 --> 00:02:41,590 but it feels like every single other laptop on the market. 36 00:02:41,590 --> 00:02:49,380 So I'm not totally sure why Microsoft would want to give you the option to have a not very surface Laptop feel, 37 00:02:49,630 --> 00:02:53,780 looking at the track pad. It's kind of the first thing that you can see. 38 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:57,440 It's just bigger. They have a little bit of space here 39 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:03,540 and they have just used it up. And as far as I can tell the rest is all preserved. 40 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:08,203 This thing is great. The overall feel of the chassis is actually excellent. 41 00:03:09,457 --> 00:03:15,560 I think it's slightly stiffer than the old model. Although oddly enough, it doesn't feel quite as premium 42 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,290 just going back to the whole Alcantara thing, I really like this stuff, 43 00:03:19,290 --> 00:03:24,290 and yeah we have the same 2256 by 1504 resolution display. 44 00:03:24,810 --> 00:03:30,230 It's four by three, which is freaking sweet. You can see so much on the screen that's right here. 45 00:03:30,230 --> 00:03:33,280 One thing that a lot of people say all the time, 46 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,700 when I talk about how much I love high aspect ratio screens 47 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:40,040 is, but then all that you get her more black bars 48 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:45,950 on the top and the bottom, which is stupid because I would respond to that with, 49 00:03:45,950 --> 00:03:51,350 you get the same amount of screen for like your 16 by nine or two by one content here. 50 00:03:51,350 --> 00:03:54,480 And then you just get more on the top and the bottom. 51 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,970 It still needs to be a certain height for it to be comfortable to use with their hands 52 00:03:58,970 --> 00:04:03,120 because otherwise your palms just kind of fall off the edge, 53 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,350 moving on, what does it have for a processor in it? 54 00:04:06,350 --> 00:04:11,070 Let's see here, an i7-1065G7 55 00:04:11,070 --> 00:04:15,270 which I don't know, that's pretty good. It seems pretty fast to me, 56 00:04:15,270 --> 00:04:20,150 that has the Intel Iris plus graphics. So we might actually be able to game a bit on this, 57 00:04:20,150 --> 00:04:24,700 that was definitely out of the question on the Surface Laptop 2. 58 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:28,550 But speaking of gaming, there's another one right here. 59 00:04:28,550 --> 00:04:32,750 It's the 15 inch version, I guess we're here now or unboxing this one too. 60 00:04:32,750 --> 00:04:39,140 Same basic thing, I'm not really gonna get into this one too much because it's exactly the same unboxing experience 61 00:04:39,140 --> 00:04:43,230 as the last one, but it's a lot bigger. They have the Surface Book for when you want 62 00:04:44,591 --> 00:04:50,490 to have something that's larger and this just feels not quite as good when I press it. 63 00:04:50,490 --> 00:04:54,900 The chassis just leaves a tiny bit to be desired. 64 00:04:54,900 --> 00:05:00,780 I don't know, I don't really get the trade-off here because for me I don't need a screen that's slightly larger, 65 00:05:00,780 --> 00:05:04,190 maybe if you're, I don't know old, see how heavy they are. 66 00:05:04,190 --> 00:05:07,230 It's okay, it's actually not all that much heavier. 67 00:05:07,230 --> 00:05:11,960 Maybe the most interesting thing about this one though, is that it's not rocking an Intel processor. 68 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,750 This one has the AMD Ryzen 5 3580U 69 00:05:15,750 --> 00:05:20,440 Microsoft Surface Edition. It also uses up two gigabytes of your memory, 70 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,750 which isn't really a problem on this one because it has 16 gigabytes, 71 00:05:23,750 --> 00:05:28,640 but you definitely don't wanna be buying an eight Gigabyte version of this if it's available, 72 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,380 they probably don't even have that. Maybe my favorite part of the Surface Laptop too, 73 00:05:32,380 --> 00:05:37,350 is just that this keyboard is exceptional. There's something about it that I just really love. 74 00:05:37,350 --> 00:05:43,170 It almost feels like the actuation distance is just a little bit shorter, I can't entirely tell. 75 00:05:43,170 --> 00:05:47,100 It's like if this laptop here is a 10, 76 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:52,910 then I'd have to give this one like a nine and a half. There's nothing that I can really complain about, 77 00:05:52,910 --> 00:05:56,080 about the keystrokes, it's just slightly different, 78 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,800 and maybe not quite as far of an actuation. 79 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,690 Moving over to the 15, it should have the same switches, 80 00:06:03,690 --> 00:06:07,050 but I guess I've been wrong before a couple of minutes ago. 81 00:06:07,050 --> 00:06:10,177 Oh, this is worse, okay, it's not very good 82 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,383 compared to what are probably the two best laptop keyboards on the market, 83 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:24,430 but why would you give that up when you could just buy the 13 inch model 84 00:06:24,430 --> 00:06:25,803 and not have this. 85 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,810 It's just not quite as good. It might just be that the chassis isn't quite as stiff. 86 00:06:33,810 --> 00:06:39,750 I'm sure that you guys have already seen stuff about how the AMD version of this one isn't quite as good 87 00:06:39,750 --> 00:06:43,040 in a lot of ways, and one of the main reasons 88 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:49,510 is just this Wi-Fi adapter. If we look at it. on the Intel one we get Wi-Fi six, 89 00:06:49,510 --> 00:06:55,350 on the AMD one we do not. Files just copy a bit faster on the Intel one, 90 00:06:55,350 --> 00:06:59,220 even when they're both on Wi-Fi five, I'm gonna just retire that one for now 91 00:06:59,220 --> 00:07:02,700 because I don't get why it needs to be bigger, 92 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:07,330 and the keyboard worse, the biggest problems with the Surface Laptop 2 93 00:07:07,330 --> 00:07:11,750 is that everything is glued together. There's no screws down here, if you want to get into it, 94 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:16,570 you just use a heat gun and you absolutely destroy 95 00:07:16,570 --> 00:07:19,660 all of this, apparently the Surface Laptop 3 96 00:07:19,660 --> 00:07:23,150 can be taken apart so let's see how that goes. 97 00:07:23,150 --> 00:07:26,910 I have a nice mat here so we don't scratch it up. 98 00:07:26,910 --> 00:07:31,510 I don't think this video is a sponsored by iFixit, but they are what we're using here today, 99 00:07:31,510 --> 00:07:35,613 this is easily the most difficulty I've ever had just getting feed off of a laptop. 100 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:42,913 I'm like genuinely concerned for this thing even though I know it's just a little bit of rubber. 101 00:07:43,850 --> 00:07:48,850 There we go, we finally did it, that was really tough. 102 00:07:49,230 --> 00:07:55,210 - [David] Wow, you're so good at taking laptops apart, Alex. - Thank you, David, this is always my least favorite part 103 00:07:55,210 --> 00:07:58,280 of opening a laptop, you just kind of have to jam 104 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,703 like a guitar pick in and hope you don't accidentally destroy something. 105 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:10,633 Oh, seems to be coming apart just fine though. 106 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,483 Wait a second, I know how this works. 107 00:08:15,130 --> 00:08:19,206 Flip it over, open it up, we should really turn this off. 108 00:08:19,206 --> 00:08:22,943 (both laughing) When it comes open here. 109 00:08:25,147 --> 00:08:28,720 Is the keyboard just kinda come off? It looks like it, oh, there's only one cable too. 110 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,950 That's perfect. So this guy right here 111 00:08:31,950 --> 00:08:37,323 is what we have to be really careful of. Oh wait, oh my God, that was so easy. 112 00:08:38,486 --> 00:08:41,660 (both laughing) So we have three batteries here. 113 00:08:41,660 --> 00:08:46,450 I think that together they gave you a total of 48 watt hours which is a bit lower 114 00:08:46,450 --> 00:08:49,536 than what you'd find in the competition. Is that the SSD? 115 00:08:49,536 --> 00:08:53,850 That thing is tiny, look at this 256 gigabytes 116 00:08:53,850 --> 00:08:57,440 just right here, this is the first time that we've been able to upgrade 117 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:04,040 the storage in a Surface Laptop, but I don't know how much you can upgrade it given the size of this thing, jeez, what else is under here? 118 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:08,000 I'm just gonna take off the sealing, that one might not be going back on. 119 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,040 So we've got heat pipes to here and also heat pipes over here, what's this one doing? 120 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,150 It's bending heat pipe, let's not do that. Let's put that back together. 121 00:09:17,150 --> 00:09:20,630 Okay, as far as I can tell 122 00:09:20,630 --> 00:09:23,630 there's absolutely no way to upgrade the RAM. 123 00:09:23,630 --> 00:09:29,420 Not that that's really expected in thin and lights these days, it's just a nice to have. 124 00:09:29,420 --> 00:09:33,450 I'm going to say though this is such a huge improvement over the last generation. 125 00:09:33,450 --> 00:09:36,600 Like you spill a bunch of Coca-Cola on your keyboard 126 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,980 and it gets all sticky and garbagy. You can replace it on this one, 127 00:09:39,980 --> 00:09:43,680 on this one right here, no beans. 128 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:49,126 So I don't know, I guess we're done. I don't really feel like putting this back together, do you? 129 00:09:49,126 --> 00:09:54,840 - [David] No. - Yeah, I really like it, overall I'd say it's just an incremental improvement 130 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,360 on what was already a fantastic laptop. They've come down in price 131 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:04,400 since the first and second generation. So the value proposition is actually not horrific. 132 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,830 It's not fantastic but I'm going to use it because you just have a bit more screen real estate. 133 00:10:09,830 --> 00:10:14,434 The area right here is just more comfortable to rest your palms on, I don't know. 134 00:10:14,434 --> 00:10:18,550 I just really like it as a daily laptop, I guess that kind of comes down to it. 135 00:10:18,550 --> 00:10:23,470 Elena says I'm a fun boy, but I don't know. Screw that guy. Thanks for watching, subscribe I guess. 136 00:10:23,470 --> 00:10:26,363 Do we have enough trial for this? Is that a thing? 137 00:10:27,310 --> 00:10:29,393 Oh, we should probably put it back together.