hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the surface pro 6 now this comes
in at about $1,300 for this particular model and this is the new color this
year black and the $1,300 model this is without any discounts or anything does
not come with the pen or the keyboard attachment that we have here
those will cost you a little bit extra so this would be up to one hundred and
fifty dollars for the Alcantara one the black one doesn't come in Alcantara and
then also about $100 for the pen but these are often on sale for about 70 or
80 dollars and the Alcantara keyboard was on sale for about 120 to 130 so it
just depends where you live now the surface itself isn't much different than
last year's if we open it up here you've still got the kickstand it's very
durable you can push on it and flatten it out it doesn't harm it and you also
have that expandable storage slot so if you want to expand it with a microSD
card I had some people ask me how how does it fit in there and does it stick
out that's what it looks like when it's installed and you can install up to I
think 2 terabytes on this one to 2 terabytes most people are willing to buy
about 512 gig ones anyway now aside from that and aside from the kickstand on the
back you have your camera like you would expect on these devices and then also
you've got your microphone and then on the top you've got your power sleep/wake
button your volume button and then there's no USB see still maybe next year
and then we still have the magnetic connector for charging which I really
appreciate since Apple got rid of this I still think this is the way to go for
charging it also expands to a dock and then you can power our couple displays
you've got USB a and a display port for a monitor out if you don't want to use
the dock then on this side we've just got the magnetic piece here and a
headphone jack at the top so we can use a headphone jack still which is great
and then again the magnetic matching pen you don't have to use that pen you can
go all the way back with that and then on the top here there's a little bit of
a vent and this one is the fanless model the core i5s are fanless so that's great
this is never intended to be a gaming machine and only has 8 gigs of ram as
far as this one goes so this is a quad core device though which isn't
a 1.6 gigahertz quad-core and it goes up to about 1.9 quad core on the i7 but it
is the 8th gen KB Lake processor so let's take a closer look I've been using
this Microsoft Mouse with it it's one of my favorites but it is an additional
hundred dollars but that's what I use normally with my PC so let's go ahead
and unlock it with the windows hello and you'll see it works very quickly and
we're immediately in Photoshop so you'll see here's Photoshop it runs it no
problem and you'll see it just took a moment for it to recognize that we can
zoom in and it's very responsive and we'll talk more about some more pen
input in just a moment but I wanted to show you photoshop has no issues I did
have some issues with it on the surface go but this has been open for couple
days on here with no problem and standby battery is really good so you'll see
we're at 70% it's been unplugged for about a day or
so and I use it on or off honestly you're going to easily get about 10
hours if you're just playing video about 12 hours it depends what you're doing so
let's minimize this and you'll see here's Photoshop or Premiere Pro rather
and it works just like you would expect I'm in the timeline and you can put your
video in there and edit 4k video now I wouldn't buy this model for 4k video
editing regularly I'd probably upgrade to the core i7 for that but it's going
to be very adequate in the millet for most things
now I did run intel's power gadget while I was doing some other tasks let's put
this here and we'll leave this over here just so we can take a look at it and you
saw some tearing there so we'll take a look at it as we use this but it does
get warm in the back but it does throttle a little bit so let's open a
game such as city skyline so remember we have Photoshop open and premier open and
that's not a normal use case that you would leave those open while you're
playing this because you're using up a ram and most of the time it's not going
to be doing much in the background but you will use up some RAM while you're
doing that know I've set everything to medium I did have it set up too high on
everything to use on my main gaming machine which has a 1080 graphics card
in it so it's a 1080 founders Edition so this can actually handle it but it's
very choppy in those resolutions so I bumped it down
to medium and we'll wait for it to load so I can show you now that took a good
minute to two minutes to actually load and if you notice up here in the right
the CPU utilization is bouncing between eighty and a hundred percent and the
frequency the base clock speed is one point eight on this one but it's hanging
around one point one I've seen it stay at two point four and then come back
down and it's usually around the 1.2 to 1.4 gigahertz you'll see it right here
it's starting to throttle and if I put my hand behind it it's not very warm yet
but loading it was kind of intense and took one to two minutes so we're on
medium display settings and you'll see it's just not terribly suited for this
and this was never meant to be a gaming machine if i zoom out I have a huge city
here that already has two hundred and sixty four thousand as far as population
and you'll see it's not finished yet but it is filled in and it's a lot of
processing for this to do now it is playable probably in low resolutions and
if i zoom in here to my city you'll see it's very choppy as far as the frame
rate goes and it's just not the best as far as that however let's get out of
this and doing your normal tasks should be just fine now if I click the pen on
the end you can bring up sticky notes we can go into here and now we've got a
sticky note we can move around let's bring it to the edge and check for edge
detection it's pretty good right there so let me zoom in so if we check for
edge detection it goes right up to the edge so it's pretty good there I can
fill it in the actual touch sensitivity is really pretty good right there and if
I just right Zolo tech quickly it's quite good so that's really messy but I
think you get the idea so we have another option here if we click the top
button we can go to screen sketch maybe draw on it maybe circle something point
something out and I think you get the idea
it's pretty good for the most part I don't really see any lag especially on
the apps designed specifically for it and then also I don't think you're going
to want to get one of these without the keyboard the keyboard is a kind of an
expensive accessory I mentioned before but it completes the package it connects
seamlessly and is backlit so when you want to use it and use it in
the dark on your lap you can do that now one of the things people ask is for
heaven benchmarks so we'll see if we can open that up and we'll run a couple
benchmarks here just to see what it's like well let it load here it is on
extreme if I bring it over here you'll notice we're only at about three frames
per second so this is not meant for gaming it's meant for applications in
Word and things like that so let's see how the processor itself does now again
the back does not feel that warm let's run a CPU benchmark and see what we come
up with you'll see the single core is three thousand twenty six and ten
thousand five hundred and eighteen from multi-core score so that should give me
an idea there and let's close that and you can see here our frequency test it
did throttle a little bit back and forth but we expect that on such a thin device
now the overall experience of using this device I actually really like it I think
the tablet is good the display may be a little bit small for something but it
looks fantastic at the twelve point three inch display and it's a 10-point
multi-touch display so it's no different than last year it's great it looks great
and it's a joy to use as far as that goes now as far as the overall
experience of Windows Windows works great but with applications like I said
such as Forza which is a Microsoft application they show off on the surface
books it just doesn't run here it actually tells you it's not supported
you can get the display screen to come up and then when you try to run it it
won't run now let's try one more benchmark so we can take a look at that
so we'll go ahead and run Cinebench will run the cpu test first and then we'll
run opengl so you'll see we got four hundred and sixty two and that's not
incredibly fast but let's take a look at the opengl scores now as well
so you'll see that came in at thirty seven point nine eight frames per second
so like I said before it's not really a gaming machine but it's great for
everyday work in everyday use so it works well on anything from web browsing
to having different applications open and even a little bit older games such
as well cities in low resolution but if you want to use premiere or Photoshop
that should work just fine for you I don't know if I'd suggest the core i5 if
I was going to add it 4k video but you may want to look at the surface book for
something like that but I think overall it's a great package and a great spec
bump from last year compared to what we had I would expect a redesign next year
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is Aaron I'll see you next time
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