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the surface laptop was for years my

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favorite laptop on the market and then they just kind of didn't do much with it

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for years and years and a couple more

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years but we have the fifth generation here and it looks incredibly promising

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they haven't changed very much but what they have changed I think will make a

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big difference do you want to see the 13 and a half or the 15 first big big okay

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all right it's 12th gen we've got the P cores the e-cores I think it's looking

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pretty good nice simple packaging I don't know why

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13 and not for the 15. here we've got our power adapter and this one is 65

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Watts one thing that I love about these surface Chargers is that it also comes

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with a type a port right here it only does 5 Watts but that's more than enough

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to just like plug in your phone and get a super easy charge not having to worry

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about packing all of your stuff so here we have the silver model on this side

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all that you get is Microsoft's proprietary BS surface connector port on

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one hand is pretty great so I really appreciate that it has sort of like the

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magsafe technology so you plug this thing in here and then your child or dog

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or whoever runs by they hit the cord your laptop doesn't fall on the ground

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excellent that said in the past pretty

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much everything that you want to do had to be done through this port so you

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wanted to connect it to external displays docks or stuff like that you

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needed to do it through Microsoft's proprietary bs1 that was incredibly

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expensive not anymore 3.5 inch headphone

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jack excellent we also have USB type A I

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believe that's a 3.1 the bit that is incredibly exciting we finally have

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Thunderbolt Thunderbolt 4 Port right here so you can Chuck this right here

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into the garbage and instead you can use your just normal Thunderbolt dock like

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you would for everything else awesome thank you so much Microsoft it only took

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you five generations to do the absolute bare minimum that the first generation

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really needed they did it though they did here we have the 13 and a half

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and this one is in their new fancy sage color on the overhead right there it

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just looks like gray like sort of like apple space gray or something in person

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it looks green IO is also identical in the 13 inch so surface connect Port 3.5

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Microsoft has finally done the thing that was obvious let's go for the 15

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first a little open

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oh wow it logged me right in I set this up earlier with a facial recognition and

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as you can see it works great on their surface devices it seems to just work

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the best with them like the way that it worked right there I just open it up

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boom you're immediately in everything else it might take like a half a second

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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

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they fixed it Brandon so the first two generations of the surface laptop had

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fantastic build quality they were some of the best on the market third and

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fourth Generations were not the same that is because the service laptops one

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and two were held together using glue so

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if you wanted to take it apart you ruined it you destroyed it this is a big

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problem because I had a friend that bought a surface laptop too and it had a

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very simple just BIOS failure well they bought a Macbook afterwards because they

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could not fix it because it was completely unrepairable man they did a

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good job on these one interesting thing that you can see here is that it's all

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aluminum except for this top portion right here so that would be your Wi-Fi

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antennas because those have a lot of trouble going through you know aluminum

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like this okay let's do a little tour here so this one right here is 2256 by

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1504 now one of the annoying things here is that they haven't really updated it I

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was hoping especially after the Surface Book Studio that they would come out

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laptop Studio doesn't matter it had a 3x2 display that was 120 hertz and it

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was freaking awesome this right here has not changed at all I'm pretty sure this

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one right here does have some Dolby stuff that helps with you know

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correcting for your room and how you

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would be perceiving this stuff but this is essentially the same display that was

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on Surface laptop the first there's a lot of things like these bezels are

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pretty big for 2022 don't really care

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it's just a bit annoying brightness is fine colors are fine it's it's all good

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but it no longer like Wows you like it would if it was an OLED display or a

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mini LED that'll sear your eyeballs or something the display on the 15 is very

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similar although I think it gives you a little bit more resolution excellent

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displays wish the bezels were a bit less bezily Microsoft has some of the best

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touch screens available just the way

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that you're able to move around on it works great actually now that I think

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about it everything that you interact with on these laptops is just fantastic

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the trackpad excellent that said these

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days like the one on the 13 and a half excellent I'm pretty sure they just

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reused the hardware on the 15 which is kind of disappointing this could

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definitely be larger like uh I have a 14 inch MacBook here as you can see it's

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very possible to fit a larger trackpad I'm guessing that Microsoft just doesn't

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do the kind of volume of the 15-inch surface laptop to justify making a whole

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new SKU for this also fantastic the

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across the board on their surface devices Microsoft does an excellent job

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with the keyboard and it is no exception here the surface laptop has always had a

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fantastic keyboard although the three and the four weren't quite as good going

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back to that hole when they switched to having repairability the chassis wasn't

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quite as stiff the chassis stiffness is a huge factor of how good your keys feel

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how good your key switches are does not matter at all if it's going to be in a

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squishy chassis this right here they stiffen it up for the number five and

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once again this is among the best on the

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market it's a little bit softer so there's like a lot of travel it's really

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nice and soft it's also super quiet let's give you a little listen

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you probably can't even hear it someone's walking up the stairs and that's way louder for comparison

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these are some of the quietest Keys around but like even that's way louder

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than the MacBook now one of the biggest upgrades with the fifth generation they

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have new processors wow who would have thought so in here we have the i7 1255u

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which is not the most powerful of processors ever you have two P cores so

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only two performance cores and those ones have the piper threading but then

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you also have eight e-cores which in total let's have a look at the specs

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here wow it goes up to 4.7 gigahertz so that is still really fast and a maximum

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Turbo Power 55 Watts damn okay uh I want to run cinebench on this thing I guess

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the ryzen 7 1700x so first gen gets

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nearly 9 000 maybe we'll hope for eight thousand ten cores 12 threads how are

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you doing there Microsoft 3.3 gigahertz not too bad not too bad I was expecting

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for it to fall off worse actually but I guess they only have two performance cores so

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it's not like they have a whole lot to cool oh there we go it's falling off now

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2.7 gigahertz still above the base clock

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of 2.6 you can get a much much faster machine

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if that's what you care about for this price

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8765 so that beat my guess right there

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so that puts us right around a ryzen 7 1700 x so that is an eight core

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processor a first gen ryzen not super fast by today's standard it's faster

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than i7 7700k for everyone that remembers when that used to be really

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fast what else do we need to do speakers do you want to hear some crab Rave

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Brandon so far so good Microsoft has

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done such an excellent job giving you nice detail and bass through the

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keyboard somehow

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foreign not bad switch it up for the MacBook Pro

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the MacBook Pro 14 inch just torches the surface laptop too although one thing

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that I do have to say is that the MacBook has a super aggressive just

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v-curve on their equalizer so bass is super boosted treble super boosted it

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makes it nicer for people that don't know a whole lot about audio but the

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surface laptop definitely has a much flatter response you can actually hear

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the mids and I would guess for video calls and stuff hearing your friends

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will be easier on the surface laptop compared to the MacBook I guess somewhat

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surprisingly but also not a lot surprisingly these two displays look

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nearly identical that's kind of surprising because Microsoft advertises

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400 nits Peak brightness for this and I think Apple advertises 1600 or something

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stupid like that when in practice they don't deliver that to your eyeballs ever

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really unsurprisingly two color accurate

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displays beside each other both just looks like color accurate displays who

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would have thought good job Microsoft interestingly the 15 inch does have a

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stronger processor so here we have the i7 1265u

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gigabytes of RAM 5200 megahertz which means these are not going to be

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upgradable 500 Gigabyte SSD from SK hynix and Intel Iris XE Graphics let's

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give those a little try I don't have very high hopes for the gaming

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performance of this but at the same time it's not a gaming laptop so if we're

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able to do 1080p ish low in valheim I

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will be happy this is way better than I expected honestly are currently running

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at 60 frames per second so this is not quite 1080p this is 1440

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by 900p but we have it on medium low-ish

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settings and we're getting 60 FPS this

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is honestly shockingly better than I was expecting as long as your expectations

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are in place you can probably do 1080p

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low gaming and get away with it as I said before the Windows hello facial

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unlock on this fantastic the webcam however is just

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fine here we go this is a perfectly adequate webcam on a laptop when the

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surface laptop first came out it blew everything else completely out of the

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water and much like everything else with this laptop it now is fine to kind of

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bad but yeah this is pretty soft compared to 1080p that you can get on

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lots of other laptops now so if you want to do video conferencing and stuff this

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is okay let's take it apart

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shut up train we're gonna take apart the 15 inch because I don't like it as much

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and I'm very very curious if there's just a bunch of space on the inside

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that's not being used by anything so first of all thank you Microsoft for

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allowing us to get inside of the surface laptops since the third gen huge

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improvement over just being glued together that said this is a pretty way

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to do it we have to remove these rubber feet right here to access the screws and

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when you do that these rubber feet they might go back on but even if they do

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they're gonna fall off sometime pretty soon this is one of those weird laptops

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where it comes apart top

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when this pops out you have to be incredibly careful about the little

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ribbon cable uh you can see maybe right there yeah if you screw up that ribbon

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cable uh your trackpad and keyboard no longer work be careful this uh looks

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very much like the internals of a 13 inch laptop in a 15 inch laptop that

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said this little heat shield right here is pretty fun I was kind of concerned

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when I was using the 13 inch in valheim there that my fingers would be getting a

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bit toasty actual heat sinkage is a anemic at best have a single heat pipe

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right here that's not a whole lot of cooling also in the 15 inch they without

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a doubt could have fit a larger battery like we just have holes here bunch of

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empty space and the battery itself is only

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45.8 Watt hours that's uh they advertise

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17 hours for this guy and 18 for the 13

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and a half you're going to be lucky to eight and that said you're going to be

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lucky to get anything because of Windows

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modern standby it's actually terrible Microsoft I've complained about

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this to everyone for the past year because Windows modern standby is the

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worst thing you have done in years and that is saying something if you're

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losing Windows Die Hard people here to Mac because it's so bad anyway the

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surface laptop 5 is fantastic and I do really like this Microsoft has changed

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just a couple things specifically Thunderbolt 4 actually that's like the

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only thing that they did but that's all they had to do for like the past five

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generations it has a fantastic display it's nice and light three by two love it

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I do wish this has Alcantara that is an

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option still but I just like how smooth and soft the Alcantara is keyboards

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great track pads great screens great touch screen you don't get that on a Mac

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it starts at a thousand dollars which don't buy that one it Gigabyte bytes of

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RAM 256 Gigabyte SSD for that price get

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something with 16 gigabytes of RAM or buy something that's on sale the first

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one that I would recommend is fifteen

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hundred dollars that's kind of rough so that gets you an i5 16 gigabytes of RAM

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and a 512 Gigabyte SSD as tested this

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one right here is 1700 and that is pretty steep like the surface laptops

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have always been pretty steep it's a premium device it feels really good I

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can understand it it slots in between the MacBook Pro 13 inch and the 14 inch

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which makes sense 13 and a half inch right here I really like it just fix

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your stupid battery life anyway if you like this video hit like get subscribed

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