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- Now I've said this before on a recent video.
Windows doesn't have that many sexy laptops.
There are a few but generally when you go
into an electronics store, you head to the
laptop section where the Windows
laptops are kept.
You'll see glimmers of metal and premium materials,
but for the most part, it's a room full of plastic.
Windows needs to start to look and feel premium.
It needs to appeal to the artist, to the graphic
designers, the designers.
The professionals nowadays, even the students who are all
expecting their new devices to function really well,
but also look good while doing it.
Microsoft today at their education event launched a new
device that fits that criteria.
They've actually been doing this with a few of their
latest devices, and so it's nice to see them continuing
onward.
But, this one falls into a different tier that I think
will actually help a lot of their OEM partners
finally get the push they need to also get onboard.
That device is the Surface laptop.
Made out of metal with no easily visible seams,
and covered in a fabric-like material around the keyboard.
It's only 14.5 millimeters thick and weighs 2.76 pounds.
It also comes in four metallic shades.
Silver, gray, blue, which I now want, and burgundy,
which is actually pretty nice.
Underneath this felt material, we have some interesting
innovations as well.
Firstly, there are no speaker grills.
Instead, Microsoft has added a unique Dolby speaker system
under the keys that utilizes this cloth material
as a medium to produce the sound from.
We also have a unique SSD placement of directly
being integrated into the mother board.
That can be either a 128 gig all the way up to a
one terabyte in size.
As for the rest of the specs, the screen is a 3 x 2 aspect
ratio, 13.5 inch, 2256 x 1504 resolution pixel-sense
touch screen.
Powering all of this, we have the option of either
an i7 or an i5, either 4 gigs, 8 gigs or 16 gigs
of ram, and the i5 will have an integrated
Intel HD620GPU, while the i7 models will have
the Intel Iris Pro 640.
Microsoft is also claiming that it is 50% faster
than the Macbook Air as well as having better
battery life.
They say it will last 14 1/2 hours.
The ports on the device are questionable to some,
as most devices in this tier are now opting
for USB-C ports.
This laptop has one normal USB, a mini display port,
and a proprietary charger similar to the other
Surface lineup.
As much as us techies like to gripe about their being
no USB-C or Thunderbolt, for Microsoft's target
demographic, because this was an education event,
students were a big part of it.
We will all be using some of the same peripherals
and other devices that they are used to already having,
and those are probably going to be using USB and
mini-display ports.
Also, it's gonna save all of those students a lot of money
from having to either buy dongles or new cables, etc.
This laptop is gonna start out at $1000 for the
i5 model with 4 gigs of ram and 128 gigabytes SSD,
and will be available as of June 15th.
Now I personally think it's a sexy looking laptop.
And again, I'm excited for this, because it reminds me
in the same way of what Google did with the Nexus
and the Pixel devices.
They kinda showcased with the OEMs can do and should do
and at what price point.
So that, hopefully, will move all of these machines
in a better direction.
That's it guys, quick video rundown of the new
Surface laptop.
What do you guys think of it?
Let me know in the comments below.
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