Unboxing, Setup and First Look - Surface Pro 7

Hi everyone,

This is the Microsoft Surface pro 7 if we take a look at the back of it here you’ll see it says surface pro 7 in the upper left and this is the 10th generation that’s the new processor in here Core i5 with 256 gigabytes of storage and 8 gigabytes of RAM now this is supposed to be faster than last year’s i7 model but it’s still supposed to be finless I do have some of the accessories I have the new signature type cover and this fits the surface pro 5 6 7 as well as the new Microsoft Surface pen and well talk about these in a moment this is the new poppy red color lets go ahead and open this up well take the cover off here now depending which model you get this starts at 749 and goes up to 2,000 299 dollars it can come with a Intel core i3 and i5 or an i7 up to one terabyte of storage. 

So let’s go ahead and take the cover off here that’s the box top now this is the surface itself lets set this aside just for a moment and take a look at what’s in the box so we have a little pamphlet here usually you only have the one pamphlet and I guess this year they’ve included a couple different things so it says Microsoft Surface pro you’ve got a little information guide here we’ve also got this little card here and then it looks just like a cardboard backing I suppose set this aside and then in here I would expect we have the plug and this is one of my favorites ever since Apple got rid of their magnetic plug this is my favorite plug now that its magnetic it attaches to the device you’ve got your normal power adapter there and then USB. 

So if you want to charge something additional you can do that now aside from that you get the wall adapter depending where you live it’s going to look a little bit different but that’s all you’ve got and that should charge it without any problems so these are really nice compact and easy to carry now this year this comes in platinum and that matte black color again last year I got the matte black so I thought we’d take a look at the platinum lets go ahead and open this up and this version is not too much different than what we had before now like I said this is the core i5 it is a quad core i5 with that new tenth generation chipset it also has Intel iris graphics in the i5 and i7 variants.

So it’s pretty decent and then that 256 gigabytes of storage that goes up to 800 megabytes per second in tests that I’m seeing now this is created out of magnesium and it’s a pretty unique finish its really nice makes it lightweight and strong if we open this up here we still have room for our expandable storage and this is unlike the new surface pro X that comes out in a few weeks from now but this has expandable storage you cannot open this up now the kickstand is very durable and this scares me every time I do it but you can push it right down and it does feel a little bit different like it goes a little bit further down this year but it does Bend its very durable and doesn’t seem to have an issue there now if we take a look around the outside of it one of the new things this year is that new USBC port now this is not a thunderbolt port but it does support USB C so you can’t use an external GPU or anything like that you have a USB a you have your surface connector so you can charge it or connect it to a dock and then if we go around the bottom. 

We’ve got our connector for our type cover and then on this side we still have a headphone jack here so that’s really nice and then on the top you’ve got your power button and volume up and down now this still has that really nice twelve point three inch pixel sense display and it comes in at twenty-seven 36 by 1824 with 267 pixels per inch lets go ahead and turn it on so well set this down you’ll see it did pick up some finger prints here well let that turn on it says just a moment and while we do that since I’ll probably need this type cover to set it up you’ll see this is the new type cover its a hundred and $59 if you don’t get a discount on it and this is the new poppy red color so let’s go ahead open this and inside here that’s pretty much all you get is the type cover itself and this one is Alcan Tara. 

If you don’t like Alcan Tara they do have other options but this is a new color along with a new ice blue as well it’s got that nice trackpad along with the keyboard that has a pretty decent travel this is a very nice keyboard to use its pretty rigid and overall looks pretty good lets go ahead and click it into place and of course you can just close it fits nicely now before I set this up there is a camera on the back this is an 8 megapixel camera along with a microphone it can record up to 1080p and video at the top we have our Windows hello sensors dual microphones as well as a 5 megapixel forward facing camera.

So we can use that for Skype calls or anything like that so let’s go ahead and set this up now let’s go ahead and click English for my language here you’ll select whatever is relevant to you click yes of course we can just tap the screen for the same thing is your voice or the keyboard along the way and if you’d like me to stay quiet just select the little microphone icon towards the bottom of your screen if you need an assistive screen reader press the windows control and enter keys at the same time to turn on narrator okay enough intro lets dig in door region is set to United States is that right yes now that I’ve put my Wi-Fi password in well move on to the next step hit.

Accept or else we can’t use Windows so I’ll go ahead and put in my Microsoft account credentials yes so it even noticed me off to the side so we can get instant access to a phone or something like that I’ll do this part later then we can use one drive yes so we can set up a free office 365 home trial I actually don’t use office 365 so well move on yes now of course you don’t have to allow that so you can change any of these around for your privacy well just leave them as default for now were at the desktop so let’s click off of that there’s the default wallpaper that’s set up in the background and we have windows new light mode here.  

So we can change that around if we’d like now this is the new surface pen and this has new added tilt shading functionality and comes in at $100 if you don’t get a discount lets go ahead and open it up here and it comes with a battery pre-installed and these lasts an incredibly long time without swapping batteries but they’re really nice let’s see what we’ve got in here if we have anything else we have a little pamphlet here so it says Microsoft Surface probably some product or warranty information and it looks like that’s it I don’t see any nibs or new nibs for the tip of these but let’s move this aside so well unwrap it here there we go and immediately it works it says welcome to surface pen well hit next which hand do you write with well hit right and well pair the pen will hold the top press and hold the top LED yes we want to pair the pen this is waiting to pair. 

Let’s try it again so now it says welcome to sticky notes I can write Zolo tech very messy so now as soon as I click the top it will open up an application just like it would be for we can move this around if we’d like you’ve got Microsoft whiteboard which is really nice and that’s really all there is to it well wait for that I guess I shouldn’t try and close that out but this is nice it sticks to the side of the surface which is always really nice to carry around now that the surface pro 7 is set up there’s a few other things to mention one of them is battery life Microsoft says to expect 10 and a half hours or so of battery life on typical surface usage what typical usages specifically I’m not sure but usually that’s pretty much a couple hours better than what I’ve experienced in the past so well see how this goes in the future but this also has Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 along with 1.6 watt stereo speakers with Dolby.

 

Audio premium so these are really nice devices I am very excited to see what the surface pro X is like compared to this one I was able to see them the store today they are a little bit thinner but those do not have Intel processors in them so I’m curious to see how those are compared to this device so let me know if there’s anything specific you want to see about this I love this windows hello its super-fast I wish other companies would add this it’s just incredibly easy and convenient to use when you have to go close your laptop open it back up and get back into it just makes it that much easier to use but let me know your thoughts about the surface pro.