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The Surface Laptop 3 was a great piece of hardware – so good in fact that Microsoft changed as little as it could in its successor, and hasn’t changed much more for the Surface Laptop 5.
That means the fifth model won’t appeal much as an upgrade option, but if you’re using an older Microsoft laptop – or another brand entirely – then there’s still plenty here to like, so long as you can forgive what’s becoming a bit of a dated design and don’t mind the decision to ditch AMD and go all-in on Intel.
DESIGN
The Surface Laptop 5 is a pretty slick looking piece of hardware, with the caveat that we’ve seen it all before and it’s beginning to get old-fashioned.
Microsoft has chosen not to update the design it’s used for the past few years, so we get the same simple metallic exterior with a reflective Windows logo, and a sparse interior with a spacious keyboard and trackpad.
It looks pretty sharp, and to be honest it only shows its age in one area: the screen. The display itself isn’t the problem –
