WEBVTT 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:16.240 Welcome to my much awaited I hope unboxing and first look at the Surface 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:19.439 from Microsoft. This is a 10.6 in tablet 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:23.119 and recom recommends represents 00:00:19.439 --> 00:00:25.920 Microsoft's first foray into their own 00:00:23.119 --> 00:00:29.840 branded hardware. So I actually went to the Microsoft store and bought this 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:33.680 today. If you follow me on Twitter, then you already know that um there was a bit 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:39.680 of a lineup, but I had like a reservation thing. I got the kit that 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:41.760 comes with the touch cover and the 00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:46.879 Windows RT tablet. I got a 32 gig Surface. Remember, a 32 gig Surface has 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:51.840 a Windows operating system installed on it. So, even though it's 32 gigs, you 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:57.199 don't actually get really that close to 32 gigs of actual storage on your 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:58.800 Surface tablet because the Windows OS is 00:00:57.199 --> 00:01:03.920 a little bit bigger than we're used to seeing from something like an Android or 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:10.000 an Apple mobile operating system. So, inside I have the Surface box itself 00:01:07.520 --> 00:01:15.200 here and then I've also got a separate box that has the touch cover. So, touch 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:17.360 cover is one of the biggest innovations 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:23.360 that Microsoft has really brought about with Surface and that it's a nice little 00:01:19.759 --> 00:01:26.000 kind of suedy cover that's actually yeah 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:30.560 quite quite nice. Wow. It feels really dense like it's a like it's a material 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:34.720 that's not just going to kind of crap out after a little while. And then the 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:38.640 keyboard itself, which is a touch sensitive keyboard. So, they've here Oh, 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:42.799 funny funny. Okay. iPhone size comparison. So the uh so the cover 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:47.600 itself is not much thicker than something like Apple's smart cover. It 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:51.040 feels very durable. It's quite rigid and then they've actually built a keyboard 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:56.720 into it. So the keyboard is touch sensitive which means that you type by 00:01:53.920 --> 00:02:00.880 by touching the space bar or touching the keys and uh and it's pressure 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:04.799 sensitive but there's actually no tactile feedback. Now there's a separate 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:08.800 type cover available that does have a lowprofile keyboard. I'll look at that 00:02:06.880 --> 00:02:12.160 one later as a separate unboxing. But for now, we're going to focus on the 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:16.640 touch cover. It has again kind of a velvety suedy feel to it, so it won't 00:02:14.959 --> 00:02:20.239 scratch up your screen as long as you don't have any sort of rocks or debris 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:23.599 or anything caught in it, which shouldn't be that much of an issue. The 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:28.319 Surface uses a proprietary six pin connector for data and power for the 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:32.879 touch cover itself, and it uses magnets to attach to the Surface. Uh, it 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:36.720 actually has a touchpad as well, and then looks like left and right mouse 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:40.080 click button. So, that's kind of cool. I haven't seen one in person yet, so I'm 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:45.680 very excited about this. You've got proprietary keys up here, and you'll 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:48.239 notice there's no F1 to F uh 12 keys. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:52.800 However, you can use the function key to enable those buttons. So, if you wanted 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:59.640 to press Alt F4, then you'd go alt function and then F12 34 in order to 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:04.159 press that. Uh, okay. So, included pieces relatively, yeah, okay looking 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:07.680 power brick. It's around the size of the Apple one. and then uses a magnetic 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:13.360 connector here to charge the Surface tablet itself. Um, very, very slick 00:03:11.239 --> 00:03:18.319 looking. There you go. Cameraman can have a look at that if he sees fit. Uh, 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:21.760 the There you go. The prongs just fold up like that. Just a Windows RT sticker. 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:25.280 You could even take that off and it'd be completely clean and just black all 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:29.680 along except for the safety notifications and whatnots. Inside here, 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:34.159 once we take out the Surface, don't worry, we'll look at that soon. We've 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:38.400 got Microsoft's included little brochure. Getting around in Windows RT. 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:44.239 So, you swipe from the right to open up the charms menu. Uh, if you This is 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:47.920 French. If you move your, if you're using the trackpad, move your pointer 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:51.200 into any corner. Okay. To access charms, get around Surface. So, they've got 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:56.879 everything kind of labeled there. Hardware setup, software. Okay. So, this is a very, very basic guide. There's 00:03:54.720 --> 00:04:02.080 really not a whole lot there. Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. So, something to 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:05.840 note about Windows RT is that oh, look at this. Environmentally friendly 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:11.680 packaging. They're using u just kind of a paper like a see look you can tell 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:15.760 that it's like a recycled paper because it's well I'm assuming it's a recycled 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:20.239 paper because it's made of sort of bits and pieces of of other kinds of paper. 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:23.320 You know what? Let's not make any assumptions. Let's just say that it's 00:04:21.840 --> 00:04:27.880 made of paper and is therefore recyclable if nothing else. And I can't 00:04:25.919 --> 00:04:32.639 get that to go back together. So, surface 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:35.120 plastic. Here we go. I'm very excited 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:41.759 about this hinge, the kickstand as they call it. Okay. It's not light. Actually, 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:46.639 it's not light, but Microsoft spent a lot of time optimizing the weight 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:51.440 distribution inside the Surface to make it so that however you're holding it, it 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:56.400 should be comfortable and it should feel similar regardless of which side you're 00:04:54.160 --> 00:05:00.400 holding it from. So, the idea is that even though the weight is a little bit 00:04:58.080 --> 00:05:05.440 on the heavier side for a tablet, it's not like a Galaxy Tab 10.1 or even the 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:11.440 ASUS Vivo Tab, which is very light, also a Windows RT device. It feels okay to 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:16.880 hold. I also like the squared corners. These are a 22° 00:05:13.840 --> 00:05:19.440 um angled edges all around the entire 00:05:16.880 --> 00:05:24.639 outside of the tablet. Rounded corners are nice in theory. However, you can 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:28.960 slip off them. And this has a bit of a catch to it. So you can see it's not 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:33.759 quite just rounded and smooth, but you can actually hold on to it. Okay, so I I 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:37.919 like that so far. The kickstand itself, I have not sure how to operate it yet, 00:05:35.919 --> 00:05:41.919 but there you go. So you pull it out there, makes that noise, I guess they 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:46.000 they apparently spent a lot of time on the noise of the kickstand. And when you 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:51.280 close it, they're comparing it to a luxury door luxury car door closing. I'm 00:05:49.840 --> 00:05:56.000 not quite sure I'd make that comparison, but I do like the way it slows down 00:05:53.280 --> 00:06:01.840 before it hits it so that it doesn't close too hard. Very nice. Uh, yes. So, 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:05.600 the reason for the 22° edges here is so that it'll actually sit flush when you 00:06:04.080 --> 00:06:10.000 have the kickstand out and when you're using it. It's nice to have this integrated as opposed to being part of 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:15.120 the smart cover. if you guys have a smart cover or a similar type cover for 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:19.759 your iPad. I have a smart cover clone. And what I don't like about it is that 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:21.680 it has over time become far less rigid. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:26.319 So, it's much harder to prop the device up on the smart cover. Whereas something 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:30.080 like a kickstand I don't think has the potential to ever really become rigid. 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:35.520 You can see the actually you can hear you can see the design that goes into 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:37.919 these hinges. It's got one, two, three 00:06:35.520 --> 00:06:40.319 hinges here that are all look very, very robust. I'm just going to angle this 00:06:39.039 --> 00:06:46.639 towards the light a little bit more so you can see in there, I hope. Okay. All 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:47.919 right. There's the connector down here. 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:54.080 Okay. Yeah. So, let's do the physical tour. There's your charging spot. USB 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:57.680 port. That is a USB port, like U with an S and a B, and you can plug in pretty 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:00.960 much whatever you want as long as there's driver support. So, things like 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:05.680 printers are going to be quite limited at the beginning. However, any kind of 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:07.599 input devices, keyboards, mice, um 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:12.160 webcams potentially, again, it'll come down to support should work in this USB 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:17.120 port. Uh right there, we've got what appears to be micro HDMI out, speaker 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:22.639 here, and a speaker here. Yes, stereo speakers. Take that, Apple. Um and not 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:26.240 positioned such that they'll be covered when you're operating the tablet. The 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:30.599 tablet is clearly meant to be used in a horizontal uh landscape orientation. So, 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:36.400 there's your light sensor. There's your webcam. There's something. I don't know 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:38.479 what that is. Um, and then the Windows 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:42.880 uh button is right here. So, if you use it like this, it'll be kind of weird if 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:48.080 you're using uh like a Skype video chat or anything like that. Power buttons 00:07:44.840 --> 00:07:49.759 here. And I am afraid I don't actually 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:54.000 quite know what these are. So, we'll have to Ha. Oh, it doesn't even say. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:58.479 Look at that. It doesn't actually point at the speakers on this thing. So, there 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:03.440 you go. Uh, I'm going to assume there more. Check this out, though. So, the uh 00:08:00.960 --> 00:08:09.360 the rearfacing camera is actually oriented a little bit strangely. If you 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:13.039 can't see, then sorry, but it's also 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:16.000 oriented 22° off. So, what that means is 00:08:13.039 --> 00:08:20.400 if you pull the kickstand out and place the surface down on something, that 00:08:17.919 --> 00:08:24.960 camera will be looking out level now, which means that if you're walking 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:26.639 around sort of, you know, using it as a 00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:30.720 camera in order to take a picture straight ahead of you, you wouldn't hold 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:34.680 it out like this. Instead, you'd hold it more like this. So, you're looking down 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:39.519 at it so that it'll take a level picture. Okay, moving right along. We've 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:44.560 got another headphone jack, volume rocker, and really nothing nothing 00:08:41.760 --> 00:08:50.560 extraordinary in terms of IO other than that USB port. So, the setup process is 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:53.680 doesn't take that long, but I don't know if I'll bring you guys along for the 00:08:52.160 --> 00:08:58.720 whole thing. Of course, we're reading the ULA very 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:02.839 carefully. Um, Microsoft spent a lot of time on the screen as well. So, even 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:07.839 though the screen is only 1366 x 768, it 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:11.760 is using a bit of a special technology 00:09:07.839 --> 00:09:15.600 that allows the panel itself to be much 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:16.800 closer to the to your eyes than Okay, so 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:23.360 there's a there's a few layers. There's your glass layer, there's your uh there's your touchcreen interface layer, 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.320 there's your actual LCD panel layer. And 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:30.040 what they're trying to do is they're trying to minimize the air gaps in between, get them as close as possible 00:09:28.160 --> 00:09:35.200 because what that does is it reduces reflectivity. So while the surface is 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:38.720 reflective, it'll be more difficult to make out the details of the cameraman 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:42.480 based on what I'm seeing already in it than it would be with something that had 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:46.880 a bigger air gap. That's where that's where that innovation comes from. So 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:53.600 give me a sec, guys. I'm just going to get the wireless setup and we'll be back. I missed a small detail before. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:59.600 Actually, a pretty major detail. Um, the micro SDXC port is here under the 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:02.720 kickstand. So, not around the edge. It's something you'll never see once you put 00:10:00.959 --> 00:10:06.080 it in there. It'll be completely covered. Just like that. I wonder if you 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:09.200 can pry the kickstand up without Oh, yeah, you can. That's not That's not 00:10:07.680 --> 00:10:13.680 actually too difficult. So, I want to show you guys how the touch cover 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:18.120 attaches. So, cameraman actually did this when we were off camera, so I don't 00:10:15.560 --> 00:10:23.440 Oh, okay. Wow. Um, okay. Okay. So, it actually 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:26.839 aligns itself pretty easily even though, see, you can see the orientation is not 00:10:25.040 --> 00:10:32.800 even close and it just kind of kajjiggers 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:36.000 itself correctly without any difficulty. Now, you've seen people doing this on 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:40.480 the internet, but I'm actually going to do it live here for you guys just to 00:10:37.839 --> 00:10:43.600 show that it's not going anywhere. Now, cameraman's take on this form factor, 00:10:42.560 --> 00:10:49.680 and we're going to do the iPhone comparison again. That's how thick it is. Um, with the touch cover, is that 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:56.480 it's bulky. To which I would reply, okay, yes, it is bulky compared to your 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:58.640 iPad 2 or your iPad 3 because it is a 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:02.160 slimmer device and this does weigh more. The touch cover, what I didn't realize 00:11:00.880 --> 00:11:09.839 about it is I was kind of going, "Yeah, it's really thin. It's really thin." It does weigh more than, you know, most 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:11.920 tablet covers will. But if you compare 00:11:09.839 --> 00:11:16.000 this not to a tablet but to a notebook because remember this device is actually 00:11:13.839 --> 00:11:20.880 capable of being a productivity tool unlike most notebooks which aren't even 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:26.399 close to that because of the fact that it does have a 00:11:24.040 --> 00:11:32.240 notebookable notebook ready resolution of 1366 x 768. You can attach a full 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:36.240 keyboard to it. Um and it does have Microsoft Office. That to me makes a 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:39.839 very big difference. Now, this is my very first time with the Touch Cover. 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:47.600 I'm going to fire up Word. And there's been a lot of talk about how does the 00:11:44.160 --> 00:11:49.800 Touch Cover compare to typing on a real 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:55.680 keyboard. So, let's go with Hell. No, that's not what I meant 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:58.200 to say. Hello world. This is me. Wh 00:11:55.680 --> 00:12:06.720 Okay, I missed one. This is my first attempt on the touch cover. I think I'm 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:09.519 Okay, missed an M. doing pretty well. 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:12.720 So, is it perfect? No. But there are bumps here. Well, they're not bumps. 00:12:10.959 --> 00:12:16.480 They're actually gaps in the letters that will give you some idea. If you 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:21.240 just kind of go like this, it's not going to detect any button presses cuz 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:27.320 it's pressure sensitive. So, the pressure Whoops, that was just a typo. 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:33.680 Sensitive touch cover may take some getting used to. 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:37.440 Very responsive though. Um, so there's no there's no delay. There's no there's 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:42.639 no lag. There's no weirdness that's been associated with some Bluetooth keyboards 00:12:40.160 --> 00:12:45.920 uh in the past. The touchpad's not bad. I wish it was a little bit bigger, but 00:12:44.160 --> 00:12:50.560 there's only there's only so much you can do. Um, accuracy when you're moving 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:56.160 really really slowly, I'd say, is not as good as I'd like. You can see it kind of 00:12:52.160 --> 00:12:57.519 drifting a little bit there. And I I 00:12:56.160 --> 00:13:01.040 don't know what they can do about that because of sort of the fuzzy felt kind 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:08.000 of material that they're using. I don't know how you maintain that kind of accuracy without a more um without a 00:13:04.880 --> 00:13:11.360 more smooth surface that to use. So, 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:14.760 Metro UI uh start button will do that. 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:17.920 Um oh, in theory, will 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:21.000 it What are we doing here? Start button. 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:24.800 There we go. What does that one 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:27.920 do? Okay. Well, that one does it. Um the 00:13:24.800 --> 00:13:29.760 modern UI. So, what apps can you use on 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:34.639 this thing? You will have to shop in the Microsoft store because this is an ARM 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:38.639 architecture device. This is using a Tegra 3 processor which is a quad-core 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:42.320 processor but not like like the fastest mobile processor in the world by any 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:45.600 stretch these days. Um what that means is there's no backwards compatibility 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:50.560 with your normal Windows devices. Surface Pro is coming and Surface Pro 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:55.600 will be an x86 device which means you can install anything you want in this 00:13:52.959 --> 00:14:02.320 one. The desktop is Whoops, that's weather. Uh the 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:04.399 desktop is available, but it's almost uh 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:09.760 the only things you can really do are things like accessing your classic task 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:11.000 manager, your per your resource monitor, 00:14:09.760 --> 00:14:16.639 your um your office suite, which they haven't 00:14:13.760 --> 00:14:20.240 really changed the interface much um compared to what we've seen on desktop 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:24.480 versions. You can use the file explorer and you can actually use that with the 00:14:21.680 --> 00:14:28.480 USB port. you have access to where Windows is actually installed. So, you 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:32.399 can see there's 17 gigs free out of our uh 32 gigs total. So, you can, you know, 00:14:30.959 --> 00:14:36.160 users and you can browse and you can move files around just the way you would 00:14:34.079 --> 00:14:40.000 on a real computer, but you can't go and install like CPUZ to tell you about the 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:45.760 processor in here. It just doesn't work that way. So, the Pro will be x86. So, 00:14:43.680 --> 00:14:51.199 you're going to be doing mostly everything from this UI here. And the 00:14:49.199 --> 00:14:55.040 animations are very, very smooth. Microsoft's worked very hard on making 00:14:53.680 --> 00:15:01.600 sure that they don't have some of those early Android sort of 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.600 uh awkwardness things going on where the 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:07.120 animations start to look very jerky if you do certain things. So the store, 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.839 everything will be through the store. An app written for the modern UI or the 00:15:09.760 --> 00:15:15.279 Metro UI, whatever you want to call it, should be compatible with Windows 8 and 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:18.880 with Windows RT, even though they're really not the same thing, just with a 00:15:16.880 --> 00:15:22.160 recompile. It's just older apps where you're going to run into that difficulty 00:15:20.160 --> 00:15:25.199 and it'll take time for things to get updated. I mean, you've got your 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:28.800 Netflix, New York Times, it'll take, again, it'll take time, but it's 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:32.320 Microsoft. They'll find a way to get the right things released. Uh, people are 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:36.560 complaining, especially reviewers, about the lack of a Facebook or a Twitter app. 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:41.880 Um, especially from the start. There's a new egg app. Come on, guys. Um, got to 00:15:39.920 --> 00:15:48.360 go getting in my video here. And I think that pretty much 00:15:44.560 --> 00:15:48.360 covers it for now. 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:54.880 Now, it's possible cameraman and I screwed something up because while it was setting up, we were playing around 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:59.040 with the keyboard. Uh, but now that we've done a quick reboot, everything is 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:03.759 working correctly. So, the Windows button now works. Swiping in from the 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:07.519 right. Aha, charms menu. So, that is where you'll access your search. 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:13.040 Although it's totally unnecessary to do that because you can just 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:14.880 type control panel and you don't even 00:16:13.040 --> 00:16:18.959 have to open up the search in order to search for something which I think is 00:16:16.160 --> 00:16:22.199 fantastic. Sharing is uh going to be well for sharing things. Nothing can be 00:16:20.880 --> 00:16:28.800 shared from the desktop. It's contextual. Um let's go back to the 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:30.240 metro modern UI. Modern UI um settings. 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:33.120 So these are really smart the way they've got this implemented. I love the 00:16:31.839 --> 00:16:38.079 way that they've done volume and power where it actually just readjusts where 00:16:36.160 --> 00:16:41.680 it is to where you left it off and then you can go up or down from there. Same 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:44.720 thing with screen brightness. So, you can always access settings like screen 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:49.680 brightness without digging through your menus. If you're someone like me who's constantly tinkering with screen 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:53.519 brightness, you're going to appreciate stuff like this as you move from, you 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:57.440 know, darker rooms to brighter rooms or whatever else the case may be. Swiping 00:16:55.519 --> 00:17:02.320 from the bottom and from the top are things that are going to be uh specific 00:17:00.160 --> 00:17:07.120 to given applications. So here we're in Internet Explorer 10. You can change a 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:10.079 lot of settings in IE10 through the modern UL. Actually, you can't really 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:14.480 change any settings in IE10 through the modern UI. See, there's a few internet 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:18.760 options here, but most of them are going to be changed anything more advanced 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:23.839 from the desktop Internet Explorer. And you 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:28.720 can use this one if you prefer. Remember this is Internet Explorer 10 fully flash 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:33.360 enabled unlike other mobile platforms now. So that's something that may matter 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:38.000 to certain people like me for example. So let's go back to our modern UI. So 00:17:35.280 --> 00:17:44.559 let's go ahead and open a couple things in open a new tab. Hold it down. Open a 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:49.120 new Whoops. Copy link. Nope. I pressed the wrong thing. Open link in new tab. 00:17:47.679 --> 00:17:52.799 So we've got a few tabs. This is how it's handling tab browsing. You scroll 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:55.760 down from the top and then you navigate to whichever one that you want. You got 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:59.760 a nice little preview there. You can also add tabs this way and then just key 00:17:58.080 --> 00:18:04.240 in manually what you want. So, for example, ponies. Uh we could look at 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:09.600 pictures of ponies on the internet very quickly on the Surface uh from 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:12.880 Microsoft. Swiping in from the left hand 00:18:09.600 --> 00:18:14.880 side gives you access to a multitasking 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:19.280 sort of menu here. Since we've only got one Oh, yeah. Right. Screen sharing. So, 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:23.120 there's true multitasking on Windows RT. You could have um like Skype running 00:18:21.360 --> 00:18:27.760 here with a video preview. You could have a messenger application. You can 00:18:25.520 --> 00:18:31.360 have anything you want actually running from either side. Um oh, actually I 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:36.480 don't know. I don't remember how you do it this way. No, that's not right. 00:18:36.520 --> 00:18:42.320 Uh wow. How do I do that? Ah, here. Okay. 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:49.039 So, here's task switching. Give me a sec. I'll figure out how that works. Give me one moment. So, let's fire up 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:51.120 the maps app and it'll just use GPS to 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:54.320 zone in on wherever we happen to be. I've seen a lot of complaints about 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:57.840 application loading time for me. I'm still using an iPhone 4, so it doesn't 00:18:55.840 --> 00:19:01.720 bother me that much, but that's where we are. If you want to search for something 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:06.559 nearby, then you can just kind of go McDonald's. 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:08.640 And in theory, really, no results were 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:14.720 found for my search. I've never used Bing Maps before, so 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:18.080 um it's possible that I'm doing it wrong 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:20.480 somehow, but uh let's go with NCIX and 00:19:18.080 --> 00:19:25.520 see if it manages to find an Ah, yes. So, NCIX is more important to Microsoft 00:19:23.360 --> 00:19:28.720 than McDonald's, apparently, which is awesome. So, it shows us a bunch of 00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:33.200 different ones. You can browse between them like this. I promised to show you 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:36.640 guys how the how the multitasking or task switching works. So, what you do is 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:40.559 you drag in from the left and then back out and you can easily switch between 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:44.080 any of the apps that you have open. It's extremely fast and feels very smooth. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:48.400 You can go all the way out to the desktop where we have a word document 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:53.039 that we're working on. And then you can also 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:58.400 um bring any of those applications out to the forefront like this. And then you 00:19:55.760 --> 00:20:04.559 can also pin them to the side just like that. So that's how that whole thing 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:09.440 works. So, we're playing back Big Buck Bunny in 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:11.520 1080p. And the realization Oh. Oh, we 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:14.960 figured out how to put tasks over here as well. Is that it is a little bit on 00:20:13.600 --> 00:20:19.120 the cho Well, it's not a little bit choppy. It is choppy. It's not quite 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:24.320 It's not quite able to do that yet. This is using the uh Is this using the modern 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:28.000 browser? Yeah, modern browser versus the desktop version browser. However, it's 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:32.960 watchable. It's certainly watchable. I do want to show you guys how to do this 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:36.880 though. So if you wanted to move uh let's say okay so there I think you guys 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:41.520 get the point. So we've got our photos app open and if we wanted our photos app 00:20:40.080 --> 00:20:46.640 on the right hand side we open that first. Then we take maps and we don't do 00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:49.520 that. We go to our photos app. Sorry I'm still getting used to it. This is 00:20:48.080 --> 00:20:54.159 literally my first time sitting down with this. Then we take maps and we 00:20:51.679 --> 00:20:58.480 bring it out here. Then we go like this. Now we can see our wonderful photos 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:02.000 which we haven't added any of here while we use the maps app in the foreground. 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:08.240 And you can switch them back and forth like that or even swipe the whole thing away. If you want to close an app, you 00:21:05.600 --> 00:21:12.480 just take it and drag it all the way down to the bottom and it will be 00:21:11.120 --> 00:21:18.320 closed. So, it's not using up any resources. However, you do have 2 gigs of RAM. So, unless you're running heavy 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:23.120 duty applications, you shouldn't run up against that too often because you'll be 00:21:19.919 --> 00:21:25.520 CPU limited in more cases than not 00:21:23.120 --> 00:21:30.960 compared to being RAM limited. So, I think that pretty much wraps it up for 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:32.640 my Windows uh Windows RT and Microsoft 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:37.120 Surface first impressions. It's not that warm. It's a touch warm here, but it's 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:41.360 very localized. The edges are still quite cool, which is nice because that 00:21:39.520 --> 00:21:45.440 means when you're holding it like this, you're not going to get that sweaty 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:50.559 palms thing going on uh that you do with some with some mobile devices. Uh, the 00:21:47.840 --> 00:21:57.280 iPad 3 in particular I have a hard time dealing with, whereas the iPad 2 I find 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:57.280 is just just spectacular. 00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:03.679 Um, so what's the point of all this? To 00:22:01.360 --> 00:22:08.000 me, this isn't a tablet so much as it is a laptop replacement, and it's not quite 00:22:06.320 --> 00:22:12.400 a laptop replacement because you can't do the same kind of serious work on this 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:17.520 that you can on a laptop. So, we're at kind of this um this point of of either 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:21.520 convergence or divergence depending on how you want to look at it where these 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:25.919 kinds of devices where you can use the touchcreen to interact here, you can use 00:22:23.600 --> 00:22:30.159 the mouse and the keyboard to interact here are not going away. This is this is 00:22:27.919 --> 00:22:34.880 here to stay and I really like the usage model. I'm just not quite sure where it 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:38.320 fits in with this whole RT armpowered thing and I'm really excited to check 00:22:36.159 --> 00:22:41.039 out Surface Pro which is coming soon. And thank you for checking out this 00:22:39.360 --> 00:22:44.799 unboxing and first look online is tech tips and don't forget to 00:22:46.280 --> 00:22:52.799 subscribe. A cameraman sort of put it his way and he's more of an Apple guy, 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:57.520 but his comment is this is for people who don't want the lockdown restriction 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:02.720 of the iPad. They want more productivity than that, but aren't necessarily typing 00:22:59.840 --> 00:23:06.400 5,000word essays on a regular basis. So, this is good enough. Also, I realized I 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:11.200 never did show the camera app. The camera app is pretty straightforward. So, you got your 720p camera on the 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:14.559 front. You can switch cameras like that. And like I said, see, it's looking 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:19.120 straight ahead in spite of the fact that the kickstand is out. Motion's pretty 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:24.159 smooth. Uh, camera options are pretty limited. So, you can adjust your 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:25.919 resolution or you can adjust your audio 00:23:24.159 --> 00:23:30.320 device. That's about it. And then you can switch from video mode to cam. Oh, 00:23:27.760 --> 00:23:34.000 that's fast. Video mode or not video mode. So, let's go ahead and point it. 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:37.200 So, this is this is how I'd use it to point it straight ahead. See? which is 00:23:35.919 --> 00:23:41.600 actually kind of nice as long as you're filming at this level. But if you were like trying to see over a crowd at a 00:23:40.320 --> 00:23:48.400 concert or something with your tablet and take a video, I mean people who take video on their tablets in public though, 00:23:45.840 --> 00:23:50.880 no offense, but um yeah, I mean if you were trying to do that then it'd be kind 00:23:49.520 --> 00:23:55.280 of awkward. But here, let's go ahead and we'll look at this plant. Uh not super 00:23:53.600 --> 00:23:58.960 not super highlight sort of scenario here, but we can go ahead and uh you 00:23:57.120 --> 00:24:02.559 just touch the screen in order to take a picture. And what I meant to do was take 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:08.640 a video so we can capture video of this. This frame rate is not particularly 00:24:03.840 --> 00:24:10.720 high, but there's Ooh, the plant. And 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:13.520 there's the bottom of the plant. And we can stop it just like that. There's not 00:24:12.159 --> 00:24:18.320 really a delay, though. That's kind of nice. So, let's see how fast the shutter is here. Let's take a picture of some 00:24:20.120 --> 00:24:26.320 cars. That's nice. So, I'm going go ahead and go back to the main thing. And 00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:29.440 then we can open our Whoopsy daisies. That's not what I was looking for. I 00:24:28.080 --> 00:24:34.080 need that. Sorry. Like I said, still getting used to it, guys. Uh, and then 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:39.440 I'm looking for the photos app, which I have now lost. Uh, what? Yeah, there it 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:43.120 is. It's right in right in the middle. Right in the middle of like everything. 00:24:41.520 --> 00:24:49.039 Pictures library now has all the pictures I took. There you go. Camera 00:24:44.919 --> 00:24:50.720 roll. Just like that. There's the video. 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:54.400 Okay, let's see if what plays like on that. I meant to do was take a video so 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:58.640 capture video of this. Frame rate is not particularly high, but there's Okay, 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:04.320 we're done for real this time. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:06.640 and my luxury car audio. Uh, luxury car 00:25:04.320 --> 00:25:12.240 audio. I'm still sick. I'm still a little like, you know, not quite, you 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:15.279 know, uh, car door tablet that I got 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.279 going on here.