Microsoft Surface Pro unboxing and initial thoughts

Hello and welcome to today's unboxing

video. I have something very exciting

here, Microsoft Surface Pro. I ordered it

yesterday and it arrived just now, and I

decided to get a Microsoft Surface Pro

because, well, I love the iPad Pro and I'm

interested in trying out a different

tablet which is— which has Windows on

it. So I decided to get a Surface Pro,

and this is one of the, the cheapest

versions Um, oh, it says here,

it says here Microsoft Surface Pro 6,

8th generation Intel Core i5,

128GB and 8GB of RAM.

It's one of the, um, the, the cheaper

versions. It's not, it's not the i7 and it

doesn't have a lot of storage. Anyway,

let's open the box. Okay, so we're going

to make an incision here,

hopefully. Why isn't it cutting?

There we go.

Open that up. It's a very nice box. The

box is very solid feeling. Doesn't feel

like a flimsy box, and now we're ready to

open. I think I can just lift it like

this, and it should fall fall

apart. Yes,

and that's the lid of the box. As you can

see, the material is very good on

the box. Okay, so inside we have the

Surface Pro. So how

do I take it out? Oh, there's a little tab

here. Can you see the tab? And then you

just put it up. Wow, it just lifted

straight out! Wow, look at that, it's a

lot bigger than I expected.

If you compare it to the iPad Pro, look at

the size difference. There's quite a

noticeable size difference. Let's get the

plastic off.

So I guess I pull here

and then it lifts out. I really wanted

the black version. There's a black version

of the Surface and it looks really cool,

but it's so much more expensive than the

silver version, so I, I just went for the

silver version because I'm not rich. I'm

poor, so I had to get the cheap one, but

it's still good. Okay, so let's do a size

comparison between the Surface Pro and

iPad Pro. Sorry, my iPad Pro is a bit

dirty, there's fingerprints all over it.

So as you can see, there's quite a

difference in size between the iPad Pro

11-inch and the Surface Pro. If you put

the iPad— the iPad Pro actually fits

inside of the Surface Pro screen,

if you can see that.

Yeah, so the Surface Pro is slightly

bigger, and the other thing I notice is

the bezels on the Surface Pro are quite

chunky. Look, quite thick compared

to the very thin bezels on the iPad Pro.

Nearly double the size. Anyway, that

doesn't matter. And on the back of the

Surface Pro, we have the kickstand, which

is something I like quite a lot. Where is

it? I think it's upside

down. Yeah, the kickstand is something

that I think is a very good idea, and I

wish the iPad had one because there's no

stand on the iPad, and if you want the

stand, you have to buy one or put it in

one of those cases. The great thing about

the Surface Pro is You don't need a case

or a stand because it has the kickstand

built straight into it.

That looks pretty cool.

And the stand is very flexible. Look, it

can go all the way this far, and you can

have it like this,

almost a 180-degree angle there.

Can have any angle you want. You can have

it like this, or you could have it like

this, or you could have it like this. On

the iPad with the Smart Folio case,

there's only 2 angles, so you either have

it nearly straight vertical upwards or

quite low. That's it, you only get 2

options. With the Surface Pro, the

kickstand, you can have any angle you

want. Quite literally,

literally, you can have any angle that you

want to have with the kickstand. It's

pretty good. And ports, there's USB

ports, and I'm not sure what port this is.

And there's— I don't know what this is. I

think it's the charging port. Be nice if

it had an SD card slot. I think there's a

micro— I think this is— I don't know what

this is. Maybe It's a microSD card slot,

who knows.

Pretty nice gadget, very nice in the

hands. It's quite light as well.

Obviously the iPad Pro is a lot lighter,

but this isn't that much heavier even

though it's much bigger. It feels like a

lot— feels a lot bigger, especially when

it comes to the screen. Um, what else is

inside of the box? Let's Have a look.

They've given us a box. Inside of the box

there's a little

power brick. I'm guessing this is the

charger— charging device.

Yep, charger with a power brick.

And there's also a little booklet.

Microsoft Surface Pro.

All in Japanese.

Home and Business 2019.

Not sure if I want to show you that. I

think this is my, my access code for Home

and Business Office. I don't use Office

anyway, so I don't really care. Little

piece of paper. I'm guessing this is

Warranties, and what's this?

Oh, it's repair stuff. I think I'll just

put it back in there because I'm not sure

if I'm going to keep the Surface Pro. I'm

going to test it out, compare it to the

iPad Pro, see which one I like more. If I

like the Surface Pro more, I guess I'll

give the iPad to my wife. And if I don't

like the Surface Pro at all, then I'll

just return it back to Amazon and continue

with my iPad Pro. So that's what I'm going

to be doing. Not today, today's just the

unboxing. I'll make more videos about the

Surface Pro maybe after a week or after a

few days after I've had a chance to test

it out. Then I'll be back

with another video comparing it to The

iPad Pro. What else is in here? There's

not much in the box really. Just get,

just get a charger.

I really like the box. It's very angular.

Look at that. It's very sharp and

it feels very sturdy, like you could, you

could ride it down a river.

Like a boat. I guess I could try

and turn it on. There's lots of

things I want to try doing with this. I

want to try— number one, I want to try

playing Rainbow Six on it, and I want to

connect my mouse to it, connect my

keyboard. I didn't get the Type Cover

keyboard or the Microsoft Pen because I

want to try out the device first before I

buy the accessories, and I have that

Bluetooth keyboard behind me. You remember

the other one I bought? Let me get it.

I could just use this one since it's a

Bluetooth keyboard, should connect to the

Surface Pro. Looks a bit weird though,

doesn't it? So I could just stand it up

here. I don't do much typing anyway. It

looks kind of weird, it's not the right

size for it. It will still

work. I don't do much typing anyway, so it

doesn't really matter. I really like

having the stand. It's very nice having

the kickstand on it.

So how do I turn it on? I'm guessing

there's a button here. There we go.

Hopefully it's charged. I hate it when

they send you devices and they're not

charged and you have to charge them

I'll just turn it on, see what it looks

like before ending the video. We're nearly

at 10 minutes, so be a bit more

patient and then I'll let you go. Okay,

so we have typical Windows starting menu,

wants me to choose language. Touchscreen

is very responsive, I have to say, notice

that straight away. Doesn't feel

Unresponsive. Hi there, I'm Cortana and

I'm here to help. Yeah, yeah, I don't need

you. A little sign in here, a touch of

Wi-Fi there, and we'll have your PC ready

for all you plan to do. Does anyone

actually use Cortana? I never use Cortana

or Siri or OK Google. Towards the bottom

of your screen if you need— oh, I can

turn her off. Can I just skip this? I hate

the way They force you to to watch all

this. I don't want to watch this.

Okay, so I can choose my region. I am in

where's Japan?

I'm already liking how big the screen is.

It doesn't seem like a huge difference

between the iPad, doesn't does it? Look,

if you compare the two, it doesn't seem

like a huge difference. But it is

a lot bigger.

It's only a tiny bit bigger, but it feels

a lot bigger than it actually is. It's

weird. It's like some kind of optical

illusion. So let me choose Japan.

Yes. And we'll choose United

Kingdom. Want to add

a second keyboard layout? I'll skip this.

I'm wondering how comfortable it is to use

portrait mode because I quite like using

my iPad Pro in portrait mode like this,

using my thumbs to operate it like a

massive phone. I'm guessing I

could do the same with the Surface, it'll

just be a bit bigger.

Connect now to save time later.

No. Yeah, Surface Pro looks very nice.

I'm quite impressed with it so far, very

pleased with how it looks and feels, and

I'll be playing with it for the rest of

today, tomorrow, and the next day. And

I'll be back with my thoughts on it.

Bye!