WEBVTT 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:07.379 the surface laptop was for years my 00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:12.540 favorite laptop on the market and then they just kind of didn't do much with it 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:14.940 for years and years and a couple more 00:00:12.540 --> 00:00:19.020 years but we have the fifth generation here and it looks incredibly promising 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:22.500 they haven't changed very much but what they have changed I think will make a 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:27.300 big difference do you want to see the 13 and a half or the 15 first big big okay 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:30.840 all right it's 12th gen we've got the P cores the e-cores I think it's looking 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:36.120 pretty good nice simple packaging I don't know why 00:00:33.059 --> 00:00:38.280 they went with a nice fancy one for the 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:43.020 13 and not for the 15. here we've got our power adapter and this one is 65 00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:46.620 Watts one thing that I love about these surface Chargers is that it also comes 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.579 with a type a port right here it only does 5 Watts but that's more than enough 00:00:48.539 --> 00:00:54.899 to just like plug in your phone and get a super easy charge not having to worry 00:00:52.559 --> 00:00:59.280 about packing all of your stuff so here we have the silver model on this side 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:04.379 all that you get is Microsoft's proprietary BS surface connector port on 00:01:02.340 --> 00:01:08.400 one hand is pretty great so I really appreciate that it has sort of like the 00:01:06.299 --> 00:01:13.080 magsafe technology so you plug this thing in here and then your child or dog 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:17.760 or whoever runs by they hit the cord your laptop doesn't fall on the ground 00:01:14.580 --> 00:01:19.799 excellent that said in the past pretty 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:22.860 much everything that you want to do had to be done through this port so you 00:01:21.540 --> 00:01:27.299 wanted to connect it to external displays docks or stuff like that you 00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:32.939 needed to do it through Microsoft's proprietary bs1 that was incredibly 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:36.119 expensive not anymore 3.5 inch headphone 00:01:32.939 --> 00:01:38.280 jack excellent we also have USB type A I 00:01:36.119 --> 00:01:42.299 believe that's a 3.1 the bit that is incredibly exciting we finally have 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:46.920 Thunderbolt Thunderbolt 4 Port right here so you can Chuck this right here 00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:50.040 into the garbage and instead you can use your just normal Thunderbolt dock like 00:01:48.659 --> 00:01:54.600 you would for everything else awesome thank you so much Microsoft it only took 00:01:52.140 --> 00:01:58.020 you five generations to do the absolute bare minimum that the first generation 00:01:56.460 --> 00:02:03.960 really needed they did it though they did here we have the 13 and a half 00:02:01.020 --> 00:02:08.520 and this one is in their new fancy sage color on the overhead right there it 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:12.959 just looks like gray like sort of like apple space gray or something in person 00:02:10.619 --> 00:02:19.680 it looks green IO is also identical in the 13 inch so surface connect Port 3.5 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:21.660 Thunderbolt 4 USB type A excellent 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:26.280 Thunderbolt is such a game changer for this I cannot put into words how much 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:31.760 Microsoft has finally done the thing that was obvious let's go for the 15 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:31.760 first a little open 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:37.680 oh wow it logged me right in I set this up earlier with a facial recognition and 00:02:35.700 --> 00:02:41.640 as you can see it works great on their surface devices it seems to just work 00:02:39.420 --> 00:02:44.879 the best with them like the way that it worked right there I just open it up 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:48.599 boom you're immediately in 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premium subscription 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:27.420 let's have a look at just how these feel 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:31.860 they fixed it Brandon so the first two generations of the surface laptop had 00:03:29.940 --> 00:03:35.340 fantastic build quality they were some of the best on the market third and 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:40.860 fourth Generations were not the same that is because the service laptops one 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.480 and two were held together using glue so 00:03:40.860 --> 00:03:46.500 if you wanted to take it apart you ruined it you destroyed it this is a big 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:51.959 problem because I had a friend that bought a surface laptop too and it had a 00:03:49.260 --> 00:03:54.840 very simple just BIOS failure well they bought a Macbook afterwards because they 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:59.760 could not fix it because it was completely unrepairable man they did a 00:03:57.540 --> 00:04:04.440 good job on these one interesting thing that you can see here is that it's all 00:04:02.220 --> 00:04:07.799 aluminum except for this top portion right here so that would be your Wi-Fi 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:11.819 antennas because those have a lot of trouble going through you know aluminum 00:04:09.959 --> 00:04:17.040 like this okay let's do a little tour here so this one right here is 2256 by 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:22.079 1504 now one of the annoying things here is that they haven't really updated it I 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:27.060 was hoping especially after the Surface Book Studio that they would come out 00:04:24.479 --> 00:04:33.240 laptop Studio doesn't matter it had a 3x2 display that was 120 hertz and it 00:04:30.780 --> 00:04:36.720 was freaking awesome this right here has not changed at all I'm pretty sure this 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:41.639 one right here does have some Dolby stuff that helps with you know 00:04:38.460 --> 00:04:43.500 correcting for your room and how you 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:48.060 would be perceiving this stuff but this is essentially the same display that was 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:53.759 on Surface laptop the first there's a lot of things like these bezels are 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:55.919 pretty big for 2022 don't really care 00:04:53.759 --> 00:05:01.139 it's just a bit annoying brightness is fine colors are fine it's it's all good 00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:05.940 but it no longer like Wows you like it would if it was an OLED display or a 00:05:03.419 --> 00:05:09.720 mini LED that'll sear your eyeballs or something the display on the 15 is very 00:05:07.979 --> 00:05:13.440 similar although I think it gives you a little bit more resolution excellent 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:19.199 displays wish the bezels were a bit less bezily Microsoft has some of the best 00:05:16.139 --> 00:05:20.940 touch screens available just the way 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:24.360 that you're able to move around on it works great actually now that I think 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:31.139 about it everything that you interact with on these laptops is just fantastic 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:33.419 the trackpad excellent that said these 00:05:31.139 --> 00:05:37.860 days like the one on the 13 and a half excellent I'm pretty sure they just 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:41.639 reused the hardware on the 15 which is kind of disappointing this could 00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:46.080 definitely be larger like uh I have a 14 inch MacBook here as you can see it's 00:05:44.100 --> 00:05:50.759 very possible to fit a larger trackpad I'm guessing that Microsoft just doesn't 00:05:48.419 --> 00:05:56.820 do the kind of volume of the 15-inch surface laptop to justify making a whole 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:59.240 new SKU for this also fantastic the 00:05:56.820 --> 00:05:59.240 keyboard 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:07.440 across the board on their surface devices Microsoft does an excellent job 00:06:05.340 --> 00:06:12.000 with the keyboard and it is no exception here the surface laptop has always had a 00:06:09.780 --> 00:06:17.220 fantastic keyboard although the three and the four weren't quite as good going 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:22.680 back to that hole when they switched to having repairability the chassis wasn't 00:06:19.919 --> 00:06:27.539 quite as stiff the chassis stiffness is a huge factor of how good your keys feel 00:06:25.259 --> 00:06:31.860 how good your key switches are does not matter at all if it's going to be in a 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:36.539 squishy chassis this right here they stiffen it up for the number five and 00:06:33.479 --> 00:06:38.699 once again this is among the best on the 00:06:36.539 --> 00:06:43.380 market it's a little bit softer so there's like a lot of travel it's really 00:06:40.979 --> 00:06:47.819 nice and soft it's also super quiet let's give you a little listen 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:53.000 you probably can't even hear it someone's walking up the stairs and that's way louder for comparison 00:06:53.699 --> 00:06:59.580 these are some of the quietest Keys around but like even that's way louder 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:03.720 than the MacBook now one of the biggest upgrades with the fifth generation they 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:09.539 have new processors wow who would have thought so in here we have the i7 1255u 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:14.520 which is not the most powerful of processors ever you have two P cores so 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:18.660 only two performance cores and those ones have the piper threading but then 00:07:16.139 --> 00:07:22.800 you also have eight e-cores which in total let's have a look at the specs 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:27.780 here wow it goes up to 4.7 gigahertz so that is still really fast and a maximum 00:07:25.020 --> 00:07:32.940 Turbo Power 55 Watts damn okay uh I want to run cinebench on this thing I guess 00:07:29.340 --> 00:07:34.979 the ryzen 7 1700x so first gen gets 00:07:32.940 --> 00:07:39.900 nearly 9 000 maybe we'll hope for eight thousand ten cores 12 threads how are 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:44.340 you doing there Microsoft 3.3 gigahertz not too bad not too bad I was expecting 00:07:42.060 --> 00:07:48.000 for it to fall off worse actually but I guess they only have two performance cores so 00:07:46.860 --> 00:07:53.400 it's not like they have a whole lot to cool oh there we go it's falling off now 00:07:50.340 --> 00:07:56.340 2.7 gigahertz still above the base clock 00:07:53.400 --> 00:07:59.639 of 2.6 you can get a much much faster machine 00:07:57.479 --> 00:08:04.979 if that's what you care about for this price 00:08:01.340 --> 00:08:07.800 8765 so that beat my guess right there 00:08:04.979 --> 00:08:13.979 so that puts us right around a ryzen 7 1700 x so that is an eight core 00:08:11.099 --> 00:08:18.180 processor a first gen ryzen not super fast by today's standard it's faster 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:22.139 than i7 7700k for everyone that remembers when that used to be really 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:27.180 fast what else do we need to do speakers do you want to hear some crab Rave 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:29.940 Brandon so far so good Microsoft has 00:08:27.180 --> 00:08:34.760 done such an excellent job giving you nice detail and bass through the 00:08:31.860 --> 00:08:34.760 keyboard somehow 00:08:35.580 --> 00:08:45.899 foreign not bad switch it up for the MacBook Pro 00:08:45.899 --> 00:08:51.959 the MacBook Pro 14 inch just torches the surface laptop too although one thing 00:08:50.760 --> 00:08:57.180 that I do have to say is that the MacBook has a super aggressive just 00:08:54.300 --> 00:09:00.540 v-curve on their equalizer so bass is super boosted treble super boosted it 00:08:59.160 --> 00:09:04.440 makes it nicer for people that don't know a whole lot about audio but the 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:08.160 surface laptop definitely has a much flatter response you can actually hear 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:12.660 the mids and I would guess for video calls and stuff hearing your friends 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:16.920 will be easier on the surface laptop compared to the MacBook I guess somewhat 00:09:14.820 --> 00:09:20.940 surprisingly but also not a lot surprisingly these two displays look 00:09:19.019 --> 00:09:25.380 nearly identical that's kind of surprising because Microsoft advertises 00:09:22.860 --> 00:09:30.300 400 nits Peak brightness for this and I think Apple advertises 1600 or something 00:09:27.959 --> 00:09:35.700 stupid like that when in practice they don't deliver that to your eyeballs ever 00:09:32.580 --> 00:09:38.040 really unsurprisingly two color accurate 00:09:35.700 --> 00:09:42.320 displays beside each other both just looks like color accurate displays who 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:46.740 would have thought good job Microsoft interestingly the 15 inch does have a 00:09:44.880 --> 00:09:51.839 stronger processor so here we have the i7 1265u 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:57.600 1265u has 100 megahertz higher boost clock than the 55u both of them have 16 00:09:54.720 --> 00:10:02.100 gigabytes of RAM 5200 megahertz which means these are not going to be 00:09:59.220 --> 00:10:08.160 upgradable 500 Gigabyte SSD from SK hynix and Intel Iris XE Graphics let's 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:11.339 give those a little try I don't have very high hopes for the gaming 00:10:09.540 --> 00:10:18.180 performance of this but at the same time it's not a gaming laptop so if we're 00:10:14.880 --> 00:10:20.760 able to do 1080p ish low in valheim I 00:10:18.180 --> 00:10:25.740 will be happy this is way better than I expected honestly are currently running 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:34.380 at 60 frames per second so this is not quite 1080p this is 1440 00:10:30.300 --> 00:10:37.440 by 900p but we have it on medium low-ish 00:10:34.380 --> 00:10:40.380 settings and we're getting 60 FPS this 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:46.079 is honestly shockingly better than I was expecting as long as your expectations 00:10:42.300 --> 00:10:48.660 are in place you can probably do 1080p 00:10:46.079 --> 00:10:52.519 low gaming and get away with it as I said before the Windows hello facial 00:10:51.060 --> 00:10:59.220 unlock on this fantastic the webcam however is just 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:04.860 fine here we go this is a perfectly adequate webcam on a laptop when the 00:11:02.339 --> 00:11:08.820 surface laptop first came out it blew everything else completely out of the 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:14.160 water and much like everything else with this laptop it now is fine to kind of 00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:18.839 bad but yeah this is pretty soft compared to 1080p that you can get on 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:24.600 lots of other laptops now so if you want to do video conferencing and stuff this 00:11:20.940 --> 00:11:26.640 is okay let's take it apart 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:31.500 shut up train we're gonna take apart the 15 inch because I don't like it as much 00:11:29.100 --> 00:11:35.279 and I'm very very curious if there's just a bunch of space on the inside 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:39.420 that's not being used by anything so first of all thank you Microsoft for 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:43.500 allowing us to get inside of the surface laptops since the third gen huge 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:47.279 improvement over just being glued together that said this is a pretty way 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:51.360 to do it we have to remove these rubber feet right here to access the screws and 00:11:49.560 --> 00:11:55.500 when you do that these rubber feet they might go back on but even if they do 00:11:53.220 --> 00:12:00.060 they're gonna fall off sometime pretty soon this is one of those weird laptops 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:04.820 where it comes apart top 00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:07.200 there we go 00:12:04.820 --> 00:12:11.820 when this pops out you have to be incredibly careful about the little 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:16.380 ribbon cable uh you can see maybe right there yeah if you screw up that ribbon 00:12:13.740 --> 00:12:20.519 cable uh your trackpad and keyboard no longer work be careful this uh looks 00:12:19.019 --> 00:12:25.740 very much like the internals of a 13 inch laptop in a 15 inch laptop that 00:12:24.060 --> 00:12:30.180 said this little heat shield right here is pretty fun I was kind of concerned 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:34.200 when I was using the 13 inch in valheim there that my fingers would be getting a 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:39.120 bit toasty actual heat sinkage is a anemic at best have a single heat pipe 00:12:37.019 --> 00:12:43.079 right here that's not a whole lot of cooling also in the 15 inch they without 00:12:41.339 --> 00:12:48.180 a doubt could have fit a larger battery like we just have holes here bunch of 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:52.920 empty space and the battery itself is only 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:57.060 45.8 Watt hours that's uh they advertise 00:12:52.920 --> 00:12:59.100 17 hours for this guy and 18 for the 13 00:12:57.060 --> 00:13:04.740 and a half you're going to be lucky to eight and that said you're going to be 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:07.380 lucky to get anything because of Windows 00:13:04.740 --> 00:13:12.779 modern standby it's actually terrible Microsoft I've complained about 00:13:10.260 --> 00:13:16.620 this to everyone for the past year because Windows modern standby is the 00:13:14.940 --> 00:13:20.820 worst thing you have done in years and that is saying something if you're 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:28.139 losing Windows Die Hard people here to Mac because it's so bad anyway the 00:13:25.620 --> 00:13:33.360 surface laptop 5 is fantastic and I do really like this Microsoft has changed 00:13:31.079 --> 00:13:36.779 just a couple things specifically Thunderbolt 4 actually that's like the 00:13:35.339 --> 00:13:41.100 only thing that they did but that's all they had to do for like the past five 00:13:38.459 --> 00:13:47.639 generations it has a fantastic display it's nice and light three by two love it 00:13:44.459 --> 00:13:49.680 I do wish this has Alcantara that is an 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:53.820 option still but I just like how smooth and soft the Alcantara is keyboards 00:13:51.959 --> 00:13:57.779 great track pads great screens great touch screen you don't get that on a Mac 00:13:55.560 --> 00:14:03.600 it starts at a thousand dollars which don't buy that one it Gigabyte bytes of 00:14:00.180 --> 00:14:05.760 RAM 256 Gigabyte SSD for that price get 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:10.500 something with 16 gigabytes of RAM or buy something that's on sale the first 00:14:07.500 --> 00:14:12.959 one that I would recommend is fifteen 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:18.360 hundred dollars that's kind of rough so that gets you an i5 16 gigabytes of RAM 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:21.240 and a 512 Gigabyte SSD as tested this 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:25.200 one right here is 1700 and that is pretty steep like the surface laptops 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:29.700 have always been pretty steep it's a premium device it feels really good I 00:14:28.019 --> 00:14:35.639 can understand it it slots in between the MacBook Pro 13 inch and the 14 inch 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:40.079 which makes sense 13 and a half inch right here I really like it just fix 00:14:37.860 --> 00:14:44.279 your stupid battery life anyway if you like this video hit like get subscribed 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:46.399 and just have a fantastic day see you later