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Apparently this is a very nice laptop
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That's the word on the street. It's the new Surface Laptop 2
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Look at it! It's stealth mode. It's low profile. I've heard good things about the keyboard as well
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Which is, you know, it's sort of become the differentiating factor. How good can the keyboard be when you have this crazy thin laptop
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Of course recently I looked at the new MacBook Air. The one that I've got in front of me is an 8th Gen Intel Core i5
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with 256 of storage, 8 gigabytes of RAM. of RAM. Of course, you can spec this out differently. Willie, how much is this one in USD
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Starts at a thousand bucks. This one is $1,300. How high can you take it, Willie? $2,700. Okay
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so they're not messing around because the streets are talking and they're talking about Surface
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laptop too. Ooh. Ah, look at that. Slick package, I must
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say. They might know how to do hardware. Well, you know I like the blacked
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out design. It's light. Will, what's the weight on that? I'm gonna get, wait, let me guess
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3. 2 pounds. Is that 2 2 You know what that means It is almost the exact same weight as the new MacBook Air It 2 We have USB Thunderbolt There a headphone jack as well It some kind of a proprietary connector
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I'm assuming it's like the other Surface products. Wow, the power brick is tiny, so you would just
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give it like that. It's magnetic, and that's a nice touch as well. On the power adapter
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they give you the USB. How big is the screen? Well, 13.5. It's a little bigger than the MacBook Air as
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Wow. Ooh, some hardware. Would you look at that? This is soft
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Woo! Will just come for a quick touch. Quick touch. Come on please. Show the people. Give them a quick one
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Mmm. Exactly. There it is. That's the noise you would make. Just look at Jack and do that
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You got a pretty big trackpad here. There's a little bit of flex in the middle here
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The keys themselves definitely have more travel than the MacBook series in my estimation
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That's a real, look at that. Here's a look at the display
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seems pretty high resolution. Will can we get a pixel count please 2256 by 1504 Kind of an unusual resolution It a little bit lower resolution than the new MacBook Air Also from a brightness perspective
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I mean this is a very bright environment, but I kinda wish it had a little more
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little more jump to it. There's a slightly brighter background. I would say it's sufficient
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It's not the brightest display I've ever seen. A little bit of typing here on the keyboard
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and I'm a fan of it. It's super responsive and it just has that little bit more travel. I will say though because of that flex in the deck
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It kind of feels a little bit less quality maybe than the MacBook Air since I think that's what a lot of people who are going to buy this thing
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Might compare it to. That said you get a little bonus as well for this Alcantara feel this material
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That is a very comfortable place to be. It's like the softest keyboard deck I've ever experienced
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So here it is, it's the new Macbook. Okay. Pick your RAM as well, 8 or 16 gigabytes
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It's not gonna be the cheapest laptop in the world. Display looks good, audio's good
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It's firing from under the keyboard. It's gonna get the job done
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I mean, you still have the headphone jack, so you can use that too. The keyboard is also backlit Let see if I can boost it up here Yes the keys are illuminated Okay so who is this thing for Who going to be interested in it I think a lot of people actually
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You want a thin and light, you want something portable, you like the stealth look
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If you're a user who wants something thin and light under three pounds, but you want to step up to say the i7 and spec this thing out
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it does go all the way up to like $2,700. This is one of the few places you can do that in a sub three pound package
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That's finished quite like this one now if you are considering the Apple side of things then this thing goes
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Direct head-to-head with that brand new MacBook Air and in that case
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I think this one offers up a little bit more configurability with the processor options
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But the MacBook Air is kind of tough to touch from a fit and finish standpoint
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The thing just feels super solid not that this one doesn't but Apple does a really good job of giving you a solid
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solid unibody construction. Obviously this can do something that you can't do
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on a MacBook Air. You can reach up and touch the screen. After all, this is a Surface product, still
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So there you have it. It is the new Surface Laptop 2
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I think we have a pretty nice package here and a truly valid competitor to the MacBook Air
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You tell me in the comments, if you had to choose, would it be the Surface Book 2 or the new MacBook Air
