Microsoft’s latest 13-inch Surface Laptop is down to $549.99, a new record low price

Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop offers beauteous hardware and starts astatine conscionable $549.99.

If you’re a Windows idiosyncratic looking for thing that comes adjacent to Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Microsoft’s newest 13-inch Surface Laptop — officially called the Surface Laptop 13-inch 1st Edition with Snapdragon — is simply a large option. Right now, you tin prime up the exemplary with an 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of retention for $549.99 ($350 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Microsoft, which marks a caller all-time low.

Microsoft Surface Laptop, 13-inch

Microsoft’s somewhat smaller, entry-level Surface Laptop trims immoderate of the size and a fewer features from its bigger 13.8-inch counterpart, but it maintains fantabulous artillery beingness and coagulated performance. Read our review.

Where to Buy:

• $899.99 $549.99 astatine Amazon
• $899.99 $549.99 astatine Best Buy
• $899.99 $549.99 astatine Microsoft

The Surface Laptop is much than susceptible of powering done a 12-hour time and handling emblematic productivity tasks with ease. The laptop offers awesome standby times, too, portion the quiet, tactile keyboard is simply a pleasance to benignant on, and immoderate mightiness adjacent similar it to the MacBook Air’s. The mechanical trackpad isn’t haptic, but clicks inactive consciousness amazingly well-defined and crisp. You besides get a crisp 1080p webcam, 2 USB-C 3.2 ports, and 1 USB-A 3.1 port.

Granted, the laptop won’t support up with the M4-powered MacBook Air successful originative apps oregon gaming, but lighter titles similar Vampire Survivors and Balatro tally conscionable fine. The 3:2 show is besides well-suited for some enactment and play, and the four-speaker setup is perfectly capable for streaming shows and listening to music. There’s adjacent a 3.5mm combo audio jack if you similar wired headphones.

Read our review.