 Hey guys, Thunder E here and welcome to my video on the Surface Pro 8, Microsoft's latest Surface Pro device. Not to be confused with the Surface laptop studio which we just covered, so definitely subscribe to the channel, check out that video, but before you do that, let's continue to look at what the Surface Pro 8 brings. So the Pro 8 is a nice device. What I mean by nice, meaning design-wise it kind of takes cues from the Surface Pro X, more rounded corners, just a nice thin profile which you would expect. The Alcantara keyboard is back with the Slim Pen 2 in there, all that looks pretty cool. Comes in black, comes in platinum, starts at $1,099 and goes up to about $2,000 something. Now our configuration we're testing here is a QY7 256GB of storage and 16GB of RAM, so which means we can do quite a bit on this device. So before we get into gaming which you're not going to get to, I want to talk about just some of the functionality that's built into this. This is a tablet, but it's meant to be here, a computer, so which means I can take this with me anywhere, easily. So jumping on the train, putting it on my lap, I can work quite effectively, but I can also pull out that pen and use it to write and use it to color or draw. I'm terrible about that. Slim Pen 2, it's good. It writes well in terms of drawing and using it for more artistic things. I'm not artistic in that sense, so I can't give you a conclusion on that, but it just takes some getting used to using the pen. The keyboard on the other hand and the trackpad, magnificent. Now how about gaming, because we want to game, right? Now this is not a gaming laptop or gaming device, you're not meant to do that, but Microsoft has added a few things that as gamers we like, 120Hz display on this device, which is great, which means that while you decide to game, you're going to get some really, really nice fluid motions. So we went ahead and we installed Shadow of the Tomb Raider, tried to run that at 720p and 1080p. At 720, we got about 41 frames per second on its lowest settings, 1080p, we got about 37 frames per second. Lowest settings, so not bad, it ran. Fortnite ran well, ran well enough, got close to about 60 frames per second and that was pretty solid. Now we did try Doom Eternal, which I suggest you shouldn't, because this will start the fanstasks blowing really loud and also didn't run that well. So the best place of course is Xbox Game Pass, where Microsoft has been talking about how this allows you to play a lot of games and we played a ton of games on here from you know, Jedi Fallen Order, to Forza Horizon, to Gears 5, some Injustice, some Indie games, we just kept on playing more and more games and it was a nice solid experience again. That's over streaming, which works well with of course Wi-Fi 6 built-in. You've got all the features in this device that add a little bit more. You've got two Thunderbolt ports, which means you can connect to monitors if you want to, but also means that you can charge with a PD charger. Now this comes with a 65 watt charger, which you don't have to carry. I didn't bring, I'm not sure in the video because these things are big and they've been using the same chargers for years. I decided to charge it with just the 65 watt anchor charger. Works well. It's slower, it's not as fast, but it still works. You don't have to carry any of these regular chargers. Microsoft has been this alone. Windows alone with the cameras work really well if you have a good webcam and this actually does. Windows alone is fast, it's responsive and it's great, but how does it work for a webcam? What kind of visual quality? Because that's now very important in the year 2021, so let's take a look at the webcam. Okay guys, this is a camera sample from the front-facing camera on the Surface Pro 8. This is what you should expect, especially with lighting in front of you and this is also the camera that is used for fish or a lock and a sample of what the microphones actually do and could we play some music or video in the background that would be perfect just to see how noise cancellation works and here we go. So as I'm talking maybe that will cut off some of that sound, maybe it will keep it on. Who knows? Let's see. It's pretty good. It's pretty solid. Now speakers on this device are also good. I would say let's take a listen, but yeah, let's just go ahead and take a listen. And you've got some solid speakers as well, plus you have a headphone jack, an actual headphone jack and connecting via Bluetooth now Windows 11 by the way is super fast. I was able to connect to the Microsoft mouse, basically the eco-friendly mouse which uses about 20% recycled material, but that was also a nice mouse that pairs well with this device. Now the one thing I would say about the Surface Lite is that it feels very versatile and they've added more to that versatility by being able to swap out the NVMe. It comes in 256th this version. I can actually pop it out with a single removal tool, open it up and I can replace my hard drive. The only caveat here is you do have to install Windows all over again. So that's just something to take note. I think overall though, this is a nice device. I think Microsoft has hit the nail on the head. There are a few things that not so much, battery life is not 16 hours, it's more close to the 2 and the pricing is a little bit off skew. That's just something that I would have to throw out there but I will fully recommend it. I think anyone who had a Surface would like this device, anyone who's looking for something like this that's not a PC or tablet but functions as both would definitely love it. So if you guys have any questions or any comments, let me know. 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