Surface Laptop 13-inch review: a little less for a little less

The caller entry-level Surface Laptop is nicely enactment together.

Microsoft yet recovered its reply to the MacBook Air past twelvemonth with the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop (formerly known arsenic 7th Edition). That Snapdragon X-powered laptop matched the MacBook successful physique quality, artillery life, and astatine slightest immoderate aspects of show - thing Windows laptop makers person been trying to bash for ages. The 13.8-inch Surface Laptop was brilliant, but Windows connected Arm's occasional app incompatibility stopped it conscionable shy of being the default alternate to the MacBook Air.

Nearly a twelvemonth later, Microsoft has caller Snapdragon-based Surfaces that are a small smaller and a small cheaper. The $899.99 13-inch Surface Laptop is astir arsenic large arsenic past year's, contempt immoderate cost-cutting measures similar a lower-resolution screen, a processor with 2 less cores, nary look unlock, and nary magnetic charging port. The hardware remains excellent, and Windows connected Arm is adjacent somewhat amended than past year. It'll astir apt enactment good for immoderate of you, but not all.

The basal 13-inch Surface Laptop, officially known arsenic the Microsoft Surface 13-inch 1st Edition with Snapdragon (man alive, what a name), has an 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. For …

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