 Surface Laptop 3. I was excited when Microsoft announced it. I finally have it here and of course I put it through some of its gaming paces. Let's go find out. So what games should I be playing on the Surface Laptop 3? I decided well you know what Microsoft makes gears, I love gears, so let's go ahead and play some Gears of War 5. Now Gears of War is a graphically intensive game so I don't expect this device to push out maximum graphics. I just want to play because when you buy a Surface with its slick design, its polish, again the addition of the USB Type-C port now, you get something that has great battery life, nice performance, and something you can use on a day-to-day basis. Now this is matte black, it looks good, it's got a 15-inch display, it's really nice, resolution is about 2K, it's funky, 3x2 aspect ratio. But what is the experience playing a game like Gears of War? Well I installed Gears and what I got was medium settings for my gameplay sessions which is fine because this is running of course the AMD Surface Edition processor. This is a Ryzen 5 variant I have here with 16GB of RAM. So I've got enough RAM, I've got a Vega 9 graphics processing in there built in and my gameplay sessions were fine. I was getting between 23 to 40 frames per second that's where I was living in that range and I got to enjoy some good gameplay. Now graphically it wasn't as beautiful as you would like with Gears but it meant I can continue my Gears gameplay sessions from leaving my Xbox at home, going to my Surface laptop on a 3 on the road and game. Well that to me is really really nice. There is a Ryzen 7 variant with Vega graphics 11 which probably will push you up to high settings on Gears so that actually is something to take note and put in mind but we'll talk about that more later on in this video. Now I also went ahead and played some Fortnite which of course everyone is back into playing because chapter 2 is out, I am terrible at it, I died quite a bit but I think I died once in this video hopefully Daniel didn't put it in. Anyway Fortnite played well, medium settings as well and with this game again it ran well, there were some occasions where it kind of glitched but I think performance overall for me was really good on Fortnite and I think this is where you would live with the Surface laptop 3 especially if you're getting the Ryzen 5 variant. Now if you're getting the Ryzen 7 with of course Vega graphics 11 you might be bumped up to of course high graphics here that's just my speculation just because of the kind of performance I was getting from my Surface laptop 3.15 inch here with Ryzen 5 in terms of specs. I think overall you like the feel of this laptop. It's a really good laptop, the keyboard feels different to me this time. Now the Surface laptop 2 keyboard was a bit clicky and more responsive in my mind, this feels a little bit shallower I think because of the depth and space of this device plus while typing on it it takes some getting used to so I was playing some typing of the dead and that's a game of course you can be really responsive to and I think it's still handled well but just putting in mind you will have to get take some getting used to. Now the Surface laptop 3 also has a removable swappable hard drive which Microsoft says that you do have to do that upgrade with Microsoft reps. I haven't tried it out yet because I don't have the tools but it's something I would like to definitely check and hopefully I'll inform you guys on that in the future. Now as you saw I was gaming with my of course Xbox Elite controller 2. This is an awesome controller. It retails for about 179 probably and I think the best controller for the Xbox. They fixed the issues that I had with the first generation. It feels more compact, the grips are really nice on the edges so it doesn't slip, doesn't feel slippery. The paddles don't interfere while I'm gaming so I feel less conscious of tapping the paddles while I'm actually mistaking the tapping paddles while I'm actually gaming. The triggers have three levels so you can actually change the different positions of the triggers and of course you can remap the buttons all the way. Now it's great because it works in your Xbox and as you can see it works on your PC as well directing the connection. Has USB type-c for charging? Has a carrying case that has the dock built in there? You can take the dock out if you want but if you travel a lot and you like to game on the go, you want to take control with you, you can take it with you and that's what I like about it and I think it goes well with the Surface laptop 3 but anyway that's my thoughts on this device. I think it's good for gaming, for light gaming, you can do the games you like on medium settings and again remember Gears is a graphically intense game so the fact that it can run that to me says a lot. Not as favorable as I like and not as favorable as I like with a device that is priced pretty much up there especially if you want to get better performance out of this you're spending about $2,000 for the 15 inch laptop 3 with a Ryzen 7 and VIG graphics 11. This version I have here is $1,500. Now something that might be equivalent is the Razer Blade Stealth 13 that's priced about $1,800 with a GTX 1650 but that's more comparable to of course the Ryzen 7 variant. So keep that in mind guys if you have any questions or any comments about the Surface laptop 3 as well as the Xbox Elite 2 controller let me know otherwise don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy entertainment.