- (sniffs) You smell that?
That's actual wood.
That's a Toast wood cover
and today I'm gonna review
it for the Surface laptop.
Why?
'Cause I dropped and dinged mine.
Stay tuned.
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So here it is, Toast.
If you never heard of them,
they're a company based
out of Portland, Oregon.
No, they didn't send us this for free.
Unfortunately, I paid full price for it.
They're not cheap either.
They start around 69 bucks
for the Surface Laptop edition
and it goes up from there.
I believe this was $150 in total
because we also got the bottom.
Now, they also make it for Surface Book,
and Surface, basically everything Surface
you can get made with Toast.
They even do speakers like
the Alexa Echo speaker,
if you want that.
Whatever laptop, go there,
you can check out their site.
It seems pretty interesting.
I've never used their product before,
but I'm very interested.
If you've heard me talk
about Surface Laptop
in the past, I always say
use protection with it,
and I didn't follow my own advice.
Well, this is actually the result of that.
So, I actually dropped the Surface Laptop
in my office and it
dinged the metal there.
This is the problem with
going with a colored version.
So the cobalt blue, it
shows the silver below it.
So, it's a pretty nasty ding.
I'm not really sure what else.
I could probably file it down,
but I decided I'm gonna put a cover on it,
see maybe it'll cover up.
If not, at the very least,
it'll offer some protection,
but let's check this out.
So this takes about a
week before you order it
and it comes in.
It's all customized, so
they don't make these
in mass production.
Now, what's really cool about it, too,
is you can customize it.
So you can pick all the different types
of wood, finishes.
I got the dark wood here,
but they have light,
and different, I think there's
about five different colors.
And you can even do
things like, for instance,
choose if you want the
cutout for the Windows logo,
or if you want it to be
engraved on the bottom,
and I'm pretty sure I did get it engraved,
so we'll check that out.
But let's go and install it,
and see what it's like.
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- Okay, so let's go over the Toast cover.
I really enjoyed installing it.
It felt like I was putting Legos together.
Pieces all fit well and
everything was precisely cut.
Now, this is a very expensive
addition for your computer,
but I have to admit the quality was there.
I felt like I got my money's worth.
After all, it's not
cheap to take real wood,
cut it that thinly and that precisely,
for so many devices, and I think they did
a really good job.
I enjoyed the packaging,
the instructions were solid.
Overall, a really good product.
Now, when it comes to the keyboard jack,
you probably noticed I didn't
put the Toast cover on there.
That's an optional accessory.
You don't need to purchase that.
I wanted to see what it looked like.
Thought I'd be a little
weird when it closed,
plus I wasn't that excited about putting
3M tape on that Alcantara.
I'm sure it'd be fine if
I pulled it off later,
but I really didn't wanna risk it.
After all, I do really
like that cobalt blue,
and I was covering up
quite a bit as it is,
so I wanted to leave a little bit there.
It did cover up my dent, mostly.
Still technically can see
it through the cracks there,
but it did the job I really wanted it to.
So, overall, I think the Toast covers,
they get good ratings
for a lot of reasons.
A lot of people are very happy.
Now, the question is, is it worth it?
Well, if you really like this look,
I say yeah, absolutely.
Now, not everybody's
gonna like the wood look,
so you'd want something different.
But yeah, I would order this again
and put it on other devices.
In fact, they do do it for Surface Book 2,
and I'm toying with the idea of doing it,
but, we'll see later on.
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leave me a comment below
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