![]() The high-res panel even captured blood-red sparks flickering into the air as Kylo Ren welded his stealthy black helmet back together. When she turned on her lightsaber, the brilliant blue glow contrasted beautifully with the muted brown sand. The Surface Laptop 3's screen is so crisp that I could see the freckles on Rey's nose in a wide shot of her standing in the middle of the desert when I watched a trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. USB-C has finally arrived on the Surface Laptop 3, but we still can't get over the limited range of ports. And while it's understandably heavier than the 14-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2.4 pounds, 0.6 inches), the Surface Laptop 3 is just as sleek. ![]() At 3.4 pounds and 0.6 inches thin, the Surface Laptop 3 is considerably lighter than the Dell XPS 15 (4.5 pounds, 0.7 inches) and the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro (4 pounds, 0.6 inches). The Surface Laptop 3 is among the most portable 15-inch laptops ever. MORE: Best Business Laptops - Ultrabooks - Laptop Mag I also wish the side bezels were trimmed down as they are on most modern laptops. And Microsoft didn't take advantage of the extra deck real estate there are no top-firing speakers or a fingerprint sensor (although the touchpad is generously sized). A small, glossy Microsoft logo reflects against a matte, black lid but gets swallowed by the dead space around it. If I'm nitpicking, the Surface Laptop 3's minimalist design looks somewhat spartan on such a large laptop. Microsoft cast a spell that stretched the Surface Laptop 3 into a 15-inch machine without making it any thicker than its 13.5-inch predecessors. I went back and forth on which material I'd choose, but ultimately, I narrowed it down to the gorgeous Cobalt Blue Alcantara or Sandstone metal that I got to see at Microsoft's event. I ended up liking the metal finish more than I expected to.Īs much as I've grown to love the warm, welcoming Alcantara fabric material, I can't deny that there's a certain refined elegance to the black metal model I reviewed. The Surface Laptop 3 adopts the refined aesthetic of its Surface siblings but now comes in an all-metal variant.
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