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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 5 adds Thunderbolt and Intel’s latest CPUs

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 5 continues Microsoft’s tradition of providing a general all-around productivity laptop, though there’s one pronounced change for this generation: Microsoft has settled on a 12th-gen Alder Lake Core chip from Intel—and that’s it.

The Surface Laptop 5 won’t offer us the chance to directly compare Intel’s latest Core against AMD’s latest Ryzen processor, as was demonstrated in our . But it will still offer you a choice—between a 13.5-inch

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