
In our opinion, the bezels are a bit too thick. This reveals a display with a glossy surface and Gorilla Glass 3 protection (the metal base model comes with Gorilla Glass 5). Thankfully, the lid can be opened with a single hand. But in some way, it feels like it doesn’t belong there. Yes, it doesn’t show fingerprints, it’s soft, and it is warm to your wrists. To be frank, the Alcantara finish feels a bit weird on a laptop. Its body shows a bit of flex, but the lid is super sturdy. The machine is pretty thin too, with a profile of 14.5mm. We got the latter, which weighs 1.272 kg, which is about 25 grams lighter than the all-metal machine. It comes with a metal lid and an option of metal or Alcantara base. You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: Īs usual, the Surface Laptop has good build quality. Let’s take a look inside the box, and see what a device for Microsoft purists is offering on the table. Generally, there are not many changes with the new laptop. On the other hand, Microsoft ditched Team Red for the Surface Laptop 5, which leaves us with Alder Lake-U processors by Intel. The next best thing, however, was the special edition CPUs made by AMD, specifically for the Surface devices. What they were not able to do, unfortunately, is to create their own processor and chipset. Today, we’re going to review the Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (13.5″). This prompted Microsoft to invest heavily in hardware and create its own devices. This is why the integration of Windows for example is not as good as that of the macOS and the Apple products.

But there is one major issue with them – they are not made for one particular type of hardware. Microsoft is obviously known for its software products.
