As more and more PC makers race to reduce bezels to an absolute minimum, Microsoft is happy to maintain relatively thick borders around the screen. This design is finally starting to get a little stale.īut when open, the dated nature of its design starts to rear its ugly head. It's thin, and light and its all-aluminum enclosure makes for a premium-feeling device in the hand. When closed, the Surface Laptop 5 is a beautiful machine.

Over the years, small tweaks have been made to the chassis here and there to perfect this current design, but it's still very much the same original design vision based on the original.įive years is a long time to hang on to the same design, and I feel this design is finally starting to get a little stale. The Surface Laptop 5 is rocking the exact same design as previous generations, all the way back to the very first Surface Laptop which debuted in 2017.

If you want to max out a Surface Laptop 5, you can opt for a 15-inch variant with a 2496 x 1664 touchscreen display, Intel Core i7, 32GB RAM, and 2TB storage for an eyewatering $2,699.Īs reviewed, our unit is a 15-inch model with Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD.

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