- [Danny] Hey everybody!
Danny Rubino here with Windows Central
and we got the Eve V here,
the first crowdsourced Windows PC that we're aware of.
If you've been following Windows Central for awhile
on our site, we've been covering this crowdsourced project
developed by you the community.
It's been pretty awesome ride.
November 27 flash sale.
If you don't know, this is a Surface Pro killer,
that's what everybody calls it.
And it was meant as an alternative
to people who did not want a Surface Pro,
could not afford a Surface Pro,
or weren't happy with some of the features.
So this is a crowdsourced project.
You can see here on the box when we open it,
these are all the people who contributed to the project.
And we have the device here.
I should mention the device comes with
three different processor types including an M3, i5 or i7.
Those are the fanless design ones.
They're pretty great, you can also get eight
or 16 gigs of RAM.
Different storage sizes, it's up to you.
Tons of configuration options.
Let's take a look at this tablet right now.
It is really nice, obviously, jet black looking here.
It does have a kickstand.
It also comes with a keyboard and pen.
We'll show those in a few moments here.
We have already booted this on
and so we're gonna turn it on for you.
Now, if you notice, I turned it on.
There was no log in there.
Reason is, this is very cool,
that is the power button for this device,
it also has a fingerprint scanner built right in.
So no Windows hello front facing camera,
but that's a really nice option.
I think that's super cool building that in.
Volume rocker, USB type A, not bad.
Let's come around to the other side here
where it gets a little bit more exciting.
Another USB type A, that's pretty awesome.
Surface doesn't have that.
USB type C, really nice,
and USB type C Thunderbolt 3, yes.
You can actually connect this up to an external GPU.
We'll put that through to test as we have two of those now
with Razer Core and Omen one we'll be getting.
You also have your headphone jack.
It looks like, I assume, speakers on the top.
I think they're speakers, I don't know.
And microphones, pretty nice.
You also get your front-facing camera.
And there is a rear-facing camera as well.
I kinda forgot the megapixels on there but we'll link
to the specs of this device in our description below.
When it comes to the display, it's a 12.3 inch IGZO LCD.
That's the same one that Dell and Razer use
in their laptops so that's a premium display.
It's 2880 by 1920 for the resolution
with a one to 1,500 contrast ratio,
so this is a really nice display and moreover,
they're gonna say it's 100% SRGB,
which actually Surface Pro doesn't even hit 100%.
And there's even a colorimeter built into it,
so you can actually manipulate that
for different color profiles.
So again, nice advantage there.
We'll be testing that out later on.
We're gonna put the tablet aside now
and go through the rest of the box and open it up.
You do get a wall jack here, pretty cool.
No since this is a Y-series processor,
you don't need a lot of power for it which is really nice
and there are adapters for this if you don't have a,
live in the United States.
You do get your type C to type C cable.
You do get a pen in the box again,
Microsoft is not doing this.
This pen and the tablet supports 1,024 levels of pressure.
Has two buttons.
It is N-trig.
Now it's not gonna be as good as a Surface Pro pen,
the new one for the Surface Pro 2017,
but it should be a pretty solid pen
for those who need it.
Finally digging deeper, check out this keyboard.
This thing is awesome.
Again, comes with the device itself,
which is really nice.
Really nice travel here.
Alcantara finish, but it's kind of a different Alcantara.
This is definitely cloth now.
This feels like a velvet.
It's really, really cool.
They used gorilla glass for a glass trackpad,
which I'm very excited about.
It should be able to have a really good experience there.
It does connect up with pogo connectors, so it is gonna be
a hard connection.
But there is bluetooth built into this,
which is really neat.
That means you can use this with other devices
or you use it wirelessly with the Eve,
and it just gives you a lot of flexibility,
so I'm pretty excited about this.
I should also mention that there is, of course,
a kickstand and you see, folds up pretty well there.
Feels actually a lot like the Surface Pro.
I'll be honest.
This doesn't really feel radically different.
It's a nice kickstand.
Feels nice and sturdy.
Below that, is a micro SD card for expansion
or for photography need to use that.
Really great des.
Let's open it up with the keyboard now.
Oh, look at that.
I think there's magnets up.
Yep, there are magnets up there.
Something I've been asking Microsoft to kinda do for awhile,
which is have magnets in the top, so it stays closed.
They went ahead and did that.
You can see it does connect up to the bottom
of the display with magnets to hold itself up.
Exactly like Surface Pro.
And not only is this keyboard backlit,
it's got seven color RGB.
A little bit of hint of Razer there.
Now they're not individually lit in that sense,
so you can do purple, or blue for all of them,
but you just hold down function and V and it's gonna
and it's gonna shift through.
By the way, I love the V is there logo as well as you see
in the display here.
This nice touch here.
How cool is ghat?
It's a all black keyboard.
You can make it green if you want too.
I think that kind of awesome.
This is a pretty sleek device, and I have to mention
that the pricing is gonna be way better than Surface Pro.
Just as one example, the intel core i7 Surface Pro
with 16 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs of storage.
It's gonna cost you around $2,400.
The same thing here; 1,600.
And that comes of course with that keyboard
and pen onboard.
So, that's what we have here, this is the core i7 model.
512 gigs of storage, with 16 gigs of RAM.
So there's a quick look at the Eve V
The first community funded surface like device.
We're very excited about this
and proud of the EVE community of doing this.
It looks to be awesome.
We'll be doing a full review,
so make sure you pay attention for that.
If you have questions and comments about this device,
leave them below.
We'll try to answer them, and we'll try to cover it
in our full review too.
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