Trying the New Surface Pro 2017 #Helpful Post

hey guys Boston and day I'm trying to

new surface pro so big shout to

Microsoft for inviting us out here all

the way to Shanghai and this is the the

lineup so this is not the surface pro

five instead they're dropping the

numbers and going with a much more

simple and easy to remember new surface

pro name but what's cool is pretty much

all the stuff that you expect out of the

surface pro is still here so you still

have access to the type cover you do

have a new surface pen but most

importantly this is sort of the most

advanced tablet this side of an iPad so

there's actually a lot new with the

surface pro even though it actually

doesn't look all that different so one

of the big things is they've actually

refined the design a fair bit so even

though it's very very similar on the

outside

they've smooth a lot of the edges down

it's a little bit lighter a little bit

thinner it does feel nice in the hand

while the real improvements have been on

the inside so those are now rocking

Intel cable eight processors so this

particular model is outfitted with the

i7 7660 you there's also Core M 3 and

Core i5 model what's interesting is the

core i5 model actually is completely

painless so you can imagine that while

it looks pretty much the exact same on

the outside it is completely passively

cooled not exactly like this is going to

be a loud device to begin with but it's

really cool to have a proper Core i5

without a fan so with those new chips

come better performance so they're

claiming around 20% better performance

which probably is a little bit

optimistic what should be a big

improvement is the battery life so the

new surface pro 4 is rated for up to 13

hours of use now that's compared to nine

hours on the previous generation and

that is a big big bump they've achieved

this in a couple different ways first of

all it has a bigger battery which is

always helpful

those KB Lake chips are a little bit

more efficient and Windows 10 creator

update is a little bit more well

optimized for the surface now this is

actually a big jump not sure it doesn't

quite match these 14 hours of the

surface laptop we're talking about a

device you can pretty confidently take

with you all day without needing to

charged up something that hasn't really

changed are the ports so you still have

a single USB 3.0 type-a

I mean a display port as well as the

magnetic surface connector for charging

that's not really a huge deal but it's

bizarre to see a mini display port on a

brand new device in 2017 it really would

be nice if it had USB type C or even

Thunderbolt 3 for this price

speaking of price the new service Pro

starts at 799 dollars which is about the

same as the last gen however it no

longer comes with the surface pin add

the Box now to be fair this is a

upgraded version of the surface pen but

if you want it's going to run you an

additional $99 the new surface pen has

four times more levels of sensitivity

which is nice if you're actually

talented unlike me what I can't tell is

there's a lot less lag here so it pretty

much feels almost one-to-one it's not

quite perfect but it is a big

improvement over previous surfaces now

what's cool is this 10 actually is going

to be compatible other surface models

it's going to be pretty much ready to go

add the Box 15 new surface pro the

kickstand now goes almost entirely flat

which is nice so they call this the

studio mode but of course if you want a

fully flat tablet you can just you know

not use the kickstand and that's one of

the cool things about the new surface

pro well sure there aren't a lot of huge

new upgrades it's a salt update there's

a lot of small things that do add up so

if we drop it on the tide cover you'll

see this is a little bit different from

the previous generation so it now has

the new Alcantara touch that is very

similar to what you'll find on the

surface laptop the keyboard is not bad

at all it's maybe not my favorite I

think a lot of laptop keyboards are a

little bit better but you have to keep

in mind that this is built into a cover

which is easily detachable it's fully

magnetic and honestly doesn't feel bad

so one of the cool things about this new

tight cover is it does have a fair bit

of travel I believe they quoted

something like one point two millimeters

which is a little bit more than on some

certain other macro I mean laptops

there's like an entire meeting right

here ok so I got a little loud time to

bust out the big guns something

interesting is that Microsoft repeatedly

called the surface pro a laptop and not

a tablet which is interesting because

it's exactly as much of a tablet as it

was before as not only does it not come

with the pen it also does not come with

the keyboard so yeah

the pro will also be available with an

LTE option in a couple months which is

nice as it does help to differentiate it

between the other surface products as

you can see on the table behind me there

are now quite a few so the surface book

is a little bit of an oddball it's

definitely the most powerful laptop that

Microsoft selves it's also just quirky

and it doesn't close all the way and

it's very expensive so I feel like a

little bit more of a nice sort of thing

the serpent's laptop I think is much

more interesting because it really does

feel like a major

attack on stuff like the MacBook Air

it's around the same price and I would

argue that the hardware is much much

nicer which leads the surface pro as a

sort of tablet sort of laptop sort of

not sure where it's at my life thing

honestly for the surface line to have

started with the tablets it feels like

it's kind of gotten to a point where I'm

not really sure well if they can take it

from here and that isn't that

necessarily a bad thing I think a lot of

people really do like the surface pro

line but with stuff like the surface

laptop which kind of does the laptop

thing better it's weird I'm not really

totally sure who should really be

picking this up we have options like

this or that or this or that the new

surface pro will be available on June

15th the same day as the surface laptop

so let me know in the comments below

what you guys think about this and I

will catch you in the next one

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