- Hey, everybody.
Daniel Rubino here with Windows Central.
And check it out.
We have the Surface laptop here in our hands.
We're going to give you a quick tour,
show you what it's about,
and answer some of your questions.
Stay tuned.
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So here we are.
This is the Surface laptop.
It is of course hitting the market on June 15th.
Although you can place your pre-orders for it today.
Pricing starts at $999.
This is actually what you could call a hot take.
I barely handled this thing, so
this is gonna be some of my first impressions.
Obviously, it's a very nice device.
It really just feels great in the hand,
as you'd expect from Surface.
In terms of specifications,
you're running a full Core i5 or a Core i7 processor.
And that is not a--
That's a U processor, sorry,
not a Y series,
so this is a full on PC.
No exceptions.
You do have eight or 16 gigs of RAM
that's soldered onto the board.
It's DDR3, we are told.
There's also a custom SSD solution here.
I check and it's Samsung.
I'm not really familiar with the make or model,
so I'm not sure if it's like a PM961,
or what exactly,
but it should be pretty fast.
Overall, the design is really, really nice.
You can see here on the back, here.
We have the venting, which is nicely done.
Coming around to the side,
we do have a Core as your SSD card,
which is now synonymous I think with Surface and not Apple.
Some really unique markings here.
I'm not really sure what these are for.
We'll have to figure that out.
There's not even what they would call
a finger swoop on the front,
because they say you don't need it
for opening up this device.
You can open it up one handed.
Coming around to the left side,
you do have of course a USB type A
and mini display port
and headphone jack.
No USB type C.
I have spoken to market shop about that.
They say the market is still in transition,
enabling college students,
they're still gonna be using type A.
Why not both, then?
Well, this device is packed so tightly,
that they just could not fit both ports in there.
You gotta make compromises somewhere,
so let's open it up.
Of course, you can see one handed.
There it is.
The display is a 13.5 inch,
three by two aspect ratio
which, by reading your comments,
you guys really like this aspect ratio
and I agree, it's one of my favorites too.
So glad they're sticking to it.
You do have a Windows Hello camera up here,
so that was not mentioned during the announcement,
but it is full Windows Hello.
It's a facial recognition camera.
Gets the benefits from the Windows 10 Creators Update.
Looking at the keyboard here,
you still have a standard Surface keyboard.
1.5 millimeters of key travel, backlit.
Alcantara fabric on top, which feels very soft.
It almost feels like leather, but it's not.
This is also oleophobic as well,
so it won't pick up oil and grease.
And for stains, it won't pick 'em up either.
You can clean it very easily, apparently.
Of course, you have your full precision trackpad,
as always expected.
In terms of colors,
you've got burgundy,
also cobalt blue,
you have platinum, which is basically the silver color,
and graphite.
So, really nice options.
All very muted, nothing too crazy.
Now, if you noticed there are no speakers here,
they are actually underneath the keyboard deck
around this area here.
They had to create new technology to allow that to happen
and they used the fabric.
It actually allows them to sort of create a membrane here
that allows the sound,
it has Dolby audio on board, as well,
which has been a big push for Windows 10 lately,
if you've been noticing.
Lots of Dolby stuff being integrated in there.
We haven't heard the sound yet, ourselves.
But it's supposed to be very good,
even better than the other Surfaces,
which is really great.
This does run Windows 10S,
so S stands for whatever you want it to be.
Streamline, school, store, whatever.
All that means is all the apps on this device
come through the store.
Which, for me, is actually totally fine.
But if you don't like that, no worries.
This device is fully upgradable to Windows 10 Pro.
You just go through the store
and then lock it.
Now we've been told that initially,
for the first few months,
you'll be able to unlock Pro for free.
So there won't be any charge there, whatsoever.
Later on, say in a year from now,
it'll be about $49 dollars to unlock your Pro,
which is actually very good for that license,
which I believe is usually $199.
So, not an expensive deal.
You can upgrade to Pro.
You're not gonna lose anything.
It's just you'll be able to install
your typical Win32 desktop apps if you do that.
But most people may not need to
and they'll stick with this store.
Of course, this is also a full touchscreen, as expected.
This should be, you know,
you're used to it now with Surface.
You also use a Surface Pen with this.
Works flawlessly,
and Surface Dial.
This is as far back as it actually goes for the display, so.
It does not rotate around,
which is kind of interesting.
They did have to make a compromise here.
But they wanted to make a full laptop,
and I'll talk about that more in another video
as to why they made this device,
to how long it took them,
and why they chose some of the components that they did.
So there's a quick look at the Surface laptop.
Pre-orders are live right now.
Shipping date is June 15th
and pricing starts at $999.
Now pay attention, Windows Central.
We'll obviously be reviewing this unit
as soon as we get it.
So pay attention to that.
Let us know what you think.
Leave us a comment if you like this video.
Thanks for watching.
Take care, everybody.
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