the surface laptop was for years my
favorite laptop on the market and then they just kind of didn't do much with it
for years and years and a couple more
years but we have the fifth generation here and it looks incredibly promising
they haven't changed very much but what they have changed I think will make a
big difference do you want to see the 13 and a half or the 15 first big big okay
all right it's 12th gen we've got the P cores the e-cores I think it's looking
pretty good nice simple packaging I don't know why
they went with a nice fancy one for the
13 and not for the 15. here we've got our power adapter and this one is 65
Watts one thing that I love about these surface Chargers is that it also comes
with a type a port right here it only does 5 Watts but that's more than enough
to just like plug in your phone and get a super easy charge not having to worry
about packing all of your stuff so here we have the silver model on this side
all that you get is Microsoft's proprietary BS surface connector port on
one hand is pretty great so I really appreciate that it has sort of like the
magsafe technology so you plug this thing in here and then your child or dog
or whoever runs by they hit the cord your laptop doesn't fall on the ground
excellent that said in the past pretty
much everything that you want to do had to be done through this port so you
wanted to connect it to external displays docks or stuff like that you
needed to do it through Microsoft's proprietary bs1 that was incredibly
expensive not anymore 3.5 inch headphone
jack excellent we also have USB type A I
believe that's a 3.1 the bit that is incredibly exciting we finally have
Thunderbolt Thunderbolt 4 Port right here so you can Chuck this right here
into the garbage and instead you can use your just normal Thunderbolt dock like
you would for everything else awesome thank you so much Microsoft it only took
you five generations to do the absolute bare minimum that the first generation
really needed they did it though they did here we have the 13 and a half
and this one is in their new fancy sage color on the overhead right there it
just looks like gray like sort of like apple space gray or something in person
it looks green IO is also identical in the 13 inch so surface connect Port 3.5
Thunderbolt 4 USB type A excellent
Thunderbolt is such a game changer for this I cannot put into words how much
Microsoft has finally done the thing that was obvious let's go for the 15
first a little open
oh wow it logged me right in I set this up earlier with a facial recognition and
as you can see it works great on their surface devices it seems to just work
the best with them like the way that it worked right there I just open it up
boom you're immediately in everything else it might take like a half a second
or something we already opened these up but before I can tell you about that I
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let's have a look at just how these feel
they fixed it Brandon so the first two generations of the surface laptop had
fantastic build quality they were some of the best on the market third and
fourth Generations were not the same that is because the service laptops one
and two were held together using glue so
if you wanted to take it apart you ruined it you destroyed it this is a big
problem because I had a friend that bought a surface laptop too and it had a
very simple just BIOS failure well they bought a Macbook afterwards because they
could not fix it because it was completely unrepairable man they did a
good job on these one interesting thing that you can see here is that it's all
aluminum except for this top portion right here so that would be your Wi-Fi
antennas because those have a lot of trouble going through you know aluminum
like this okay let's do a little tour here so this one right here is 2256 by
1504 now one of the annoying things here is that they haven't really updated it I
was hoping especially after the Surface Book Studio that they would come out
laptop Studio doesn't matter it had a 3x2 display that was 120 hertz and it
was freaking awesome this right here has not changed at all I'm pretty sure this
one right here does have some Dolby stuff that helps with you know
correcting for your room and how you
would be perceiving this stuff but this is essentially the same display that was
on Surface laptop the first there's a lot of things like these bezels are
pretty big for 2022 don't really care
it's just a bit annoying brightness is fine colors are fine it's it's all good
but it no longer like Wows you like it would if it was an OLED display or a
mini LED that'll sear your eyeballs or something the display on the 15 is very
similar although I think it gives you a little bit more resolution excellent
displays wish the bezels were a bit less bezily Microsoft has some of the best
touch screens available just the way
that you're able to move around on it works great actually now that I think
about it everything that you interact with on these laptops is just fantastic
the trackpad excellent that said these
days like the one on the 13 and a half excellent I'm pretty sure they just
reused the hardware on the 15 which is kind of disappointing this could
definitely be larger like uh I have a 14 inch MacBook here as you can see it's
very possible to fit a larger trackpad I'm guessing that Microsoft just doesn't
do the kind of volume of the 15-inch surface laptop to justify making a whole
new SKU for this also fantastic the
keyboard
across the board on their surface devices Microsoft does an excellent job
with the keyboard and it is no exception here the surface laptop has always had a
fantastic keyboard although the three and the four weren't quite as good going
back to that hole when they switched to having repairability the chassis wasn't
quite as stiff the chassis stiffness is a huge factor of how good your keys feel
how good your key switches are does not matter at all if it's going to be in a
squishy chassis this right here they stiffen it up for the number five and
once again this is among the best on the
market it's a little bit softer so there's like a lot of travel it's really
nice and soft it's also super quiet let's give you a little listen
you probably can't even hear it someone's walking up the stairs and that's way louder for comparison
these are some of the quietest Keys around but like even that's way louder
than the MacBook now one of the biggest upgrades with the fifth generation they
have new processors wow who would have thought so in here we have the i7 1255u
which is not the most powerful of processors ever you have two P cores so
only two performance cores and those ones have the piper threading but then
you also have eight e-cores which in total let's have a look at the specs
here wow it goes up to 4.7 gigahertz so that is still really fast and a maximum
Turbo Power 55 Watts damn okay uh I want to run cinebench on this thing I guess
the ryzen 7 1700x so first gen gets
nearly 9 000 maybe we'll hope for eight thousand ten cores 12 threads how are
you doing there Microsoft 3.3 gigahertz not too bad not too bad I was expecting
for it to fall off worse actually but I guess they only have two performance cores so
it's not like they have a whole lot to cool oh there we go it's falling off now
2.7 gigahertz still above the base clock
of 2.6 you can get a much much faster machine
if that's what you care about for this price
8765 so that beat my guess right there
so that puts us right around a ryzen 7 1700 x so that is an eight core
processor a first gen ryzen not super fast by today's standard it's faster
than i7 7700k for everyone that remembers when that used to be really
fast what else do we need to do speakers do you want to hear some crab Rave
Brandon so far so good Microsoft has
done such an excellent job giving you nice detail and bass through the
keyboard somehow
foreign not bad switch it up for the MacBook Pro
the MacBook Pro 14 inch just torches the surface laptop too although one thing
that I do have to say is that the MacBook has a super aggressive just
v-curve on their equalizer so bass is super boosted treble super boosted it
makes it nicer for people that don't know a whole lot about audio but the
surface laptop definitely has a much flatter response you can actually hear
the mids and I would guess for video calls and stuff hearing your friends
will be easier on the surface laptop compared to the MacBook I guess somewhat
surprisingly but also not a lot surprisingly these two displays look
nearly identical that's kind of surprising because Microsoft advertises
400 nits Peak brightness for this and I think Apple advertises 1600 or something
stupid like that when in practice they don't deliver that to your eyeballs ever
really unsurprisingly two color accurate
displays beside each other both just looks like color accurate displays who
would have thought good job Microsoft interestingly the 15 inch does have a
stronger processor so here we have the i7 1265u
1265u has 100 megahertz higher boost clock than the 55u both of them have 16
gigabytes of RAM 5200 megahertz which means these are not going to be
upgradable 500 Gigabyte SSD from SK hynix and Intel Iris XE Graphics let's
give those a little try I don't have very high hopes for the gaming
performance of this but at the same time it's not a gaming laptop so if we're
able to do 1080p ish low in valheim I
will be happy this is way better than I expected honestly are currently running
at 60 frames per second so this is not quite 1080p this is 1440
by 900p but we have it on medium low-ish
settings and we're getting 60 FPS this
is honestly shockingly better than I was expecting as long as your expectations
are in place you can probably do 1080p
low gaming and get away with it as I said before the Windows hello facial
unlock on this fantastic the webcam however is just
fine here we go this is a perfectly adequate webcam on a laptop when the
surface laptop first came out it blew everything else completely out of the
water and much like everything else with this laptop it now is fine to kind of
bad but yeah this is pretty soft compared to 1080p that you can get on
lots of other laptops now so if you want to do video conferencing and stuff this
is okay let's take it apart
shut up train we're gonna take apart the 15 inch because I don't like it as much
and I'm very very curious if there's just a bunch of space on the inside
that's not being used by anything so first of all thank you Microsoft for
allowing us to get inside of the surface laptops since the third gen huge
improvement over just being glued together that said this is a pretty way
to do it we have to remove these rubber feet right here to access the screws and
when you do that these rubber feet they might go back on but even if they do
they're gonna fall off sometime pretty soon this is one of those weird laptops
where it comes apart top
there we go
when this pops out you have to be incredibly careful about the little
ribbon cable uh you can see maybe right there yeah if you screw up that ribbon
cable uh your trackpad and keyboard no longer work be careful this uh looks
very much like the internals of a 13 inch laptop in a 15 inch laptop that
said this little heat shield right here is pretty fun I was kind of concerned
when I was using the 13 inch in valheim there that my fingers would be getting a
bit toasty actual heat sinkage is a anemic at best have a single heat pipe
right here that's not a whole lot of cooling also in the 15 inch they without
a doubt could have fit a larger battery like we just have holes here bunch of
empty space and the battery itself is only
45.8 Watt hours that's uh they advertise
17 hours for this guy and 18 for the 13
and a half you're going to be lucky to eight and that said you're going to be
lucky to get anything because of Windows
modern standby it's actually terrible Microsoft I've complained about
this to everyone for the past year because Windows modern standby is the
worst thing you have done in years and that is saying something if you're
losing Windows Die Hard people here to Mac because it's so bad anyway the
surface laptop 5 is fantastic and I do really like this Microsoft has changed
just a couple things specifically Thunderbolt 4 actually that's like the
only thing that they did but that's all they had to do for like the past five
generations it has a fantastic display it's nice and light three by two love it
I do wish this has Alcantara that is an
option still but I just like how smooth and soft the Alcantara is keyboards
great track pads great screens great touch screen you don't get that on a Mac
it starts at a thousand dollars which don't buy that one it Gigabyte bytes of
RAM 256 Gigabyte SSD for that price get
something with 16 gigabytes of RAM or buy something that's on sale the first
one that I would recommend is fifteen
hundred dollars that's kind of rough so that gets you an i5 16 gigabytes of RAM
and a 512 Gigabyte SSD as tested this
one right here is 1700 and that is pretty steep like the surface laptops
have always been pretty steep it's a premium device it feels really good I
can understand it it slots in between the MacBook Pro 13 inch and the 14 inch
which makes sense 13 and a half inch right here I really like it just fix
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