Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 – 15" Touch-Screen – AMD Ryzen 7 Surface Edition - 32GB Memory – 1TB Solid State Drive – Matte Black

Been using this laptop for several years and I must say that its worth every penny. Battery has been excellent and its been over 6 years now. Keyboard haptic feedback works for me as its very responsive. Speakers could have been better as its a bit muffled at times but overall a satisfactory speaker. Overall a solid built laptop that still works to this day with no issues.

If you don't want a MacBook Air/Pro because of macOS, or other Windows manufacturers such as Dell/HP/Lenovo have let you down in the past, the Surface Laptop 3 (i7 1065G7, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Matte Black) is quite the option. In my opinion it's the best premium Ultrabook on the market, especially impressive as Microsoft has only been at it for about 3 years. As performance between 85% of Ultrabooks is relatively similar, build and design is a big deciding factor to me, and the Surface won out against worthy competitors such as the Dell XPS 13 (9300), HP Spectre x360 13, and Razer Blade Stealth. A lot of Microsoft + Intel intangibles like Instant On, smart backlighting, and adaptive brightness help this feel like a polished machine that's been innovated for over 10+ years like the XPS lineup. The display on the Surface is excellent. The resolution is higher than standard full HD (not quite QHD because of the 3:2 aspect ratio), and doesn't sacrifice on either battery life (4K Ultrabooks make no sense) or picture quality. Apple and Microsoft seem to be the only ones who believe in making QHD+ displays for 13-14" instead of 4K. It just makes more sense for everyone. Performance is great for a 15W laptop, although I don't need much horsepower from my laptop as I have other desktops for heavy workloads. It's good in short bursts, and at lasting long. The quad core i7-1065G7 has the highest level graphics config for Intel's Ice Lake processors, so this is as good as it gets for this generation. I would recommend 95% of buyers to just buy the 8GB RAM models, as you'll find more use in just having 4 cores than 16GB RAM. Battery life is good, not amazing. I get about 6-7 hours of active use out of a full charge. It can top up pretty fast while in sleep mode with the included Surface Connect charger. Coming from a device that gave me 2 hours max off of battery, I'm not asking for much. There is some endurance left to be desired, but it's enough for what I need. The touchpad and keyboard are amazing. They're both among the best that Windows Ultrabooks have to offer (although that's not saying much..) Some minor gripes/annoyances: -Intel's Bluetooth and Wi-Fi drivers seem to mess with reception on this device. My range with my Bluetooth headphones is unexpectedly shorter than usual. When waking the device from sleep, Wi-Fi takes a long time to reconnect properly; I sometimes have to restart the machine to get online. - I knew that ordering a matte black metal device would be a challenge to keep clean, but yeah.. pretty hurts doesn't it? Overall, I think this should be the default recommendation for a Windows Ultrabook. at $1299 for the i5, 8GB RAM, and 256GB SSD, value isn't the best but you have what is the best looking Ultrabook on the market other than the new XPS 13.

I purchased this machine because I recently purchased several Native Instruments plugins for use with my application copy of Fruity Loops. My old computer was struggling to even eek out a full measure without crackling or stuttering, so it was time. This computer is simultaneously running FLStudio with multiple heavy Native Instrument channels without any stutter. I will say that it initially did have a little lag, but upping the buffer threshold has taken care of it. I have seen some complain that the I7 processor is insufficient for heavy music production, but if you are concerned about that, look up a tutorial about turning off the turbo boost since this should rectify the problem that many described. As for graphics, I have been using Flowscape to create ambient animated scenes, and the processor deals with this as well as most high end laptops would. I had a scene with thousands of animated 3d models (plants and particle effects included), and the framerate hovered around 8-10, which is fine for the initial setup of the scene. When I rendered it, it output about 1 frame per second at 4k quality, and the end result was as smooth as butter. Beyond that, it is a good quality, metal body, extremely high resolution machine with a lot of power for only weighing 2 pounds. If you are producing music with 30 different instruments or if you are a professional animator or heavy gamer, then you probably already know that you should spring for a tower with adequate cooling and hardware. If you enjoy moderate/heavy mixing and casual graphics work, this machine is absolutely perfect. The only warning I have is that this does not come with an SD slot. If you are worried about storage space, spring for the model with a bigger hard drive.

Bought this as my previous laptop decided to die before my last semester of nursing school. When I was looking into buying laptops, I did a lot of research and was leaning towards a MacBook Pro but couldn’t justify the cost for what the hardware would be offering. Plus limited gaming ability and while I’m familiar with how a Mac operates, I’m most comfortable with windows. This laptop has been awesome, mostly. The look of it is sleek, it handles all my programs for school with ease (which is impressive because the software for taking my exams should be considered a virus at best). The laptop has a great speed, touch pad is sensitive and responsive, and the battery life gets me through the entire day. What’s not so great about it? A couple times I’ll have left the laptop open and go to wake the computer up and it doesn’t respond. Annoying but if I closed the screen and reopen it, it would be fine. One time the laptop was off and wouldn’t turn on, simple google on the phone and already had a fix for it. Also had to turn off the auto adjust for the screen brightness as it was overly sensitive and would constantly fluctuate. All in all, I’m happy with my purchase. There are some things I’d like to be fixed, but I wasn’t willing to spend the money for an even more expensive laptop so I feel like while it is on the costly side, it’s a huge upgrade from what I had and it’s held up great for the past 3 months.

This is a perfect laptop. Much more better than Surface Laptop 2 because of USB-C, I can charge the laptop through it and it is a very good option when you are in a company of Mac users and suddenly your battery drains out, you can just plug the Mac charger to it and continue to work. Keyboard is perfect, I'm typing this review now and I want to write more and more, It's not loud and it has a very satisfying response. Thanks Microsoft for this great work, I wish they well give us a Thunderbolt 3 availability through USB-C in their next version of this Laptop. Screen is very bright and with well calibrated colors, touch sensor is perfect. But I see that the battery life is a little bit shorter than in Surface Laptop 2. I worked on my Surface Laptop 2 over 10-12 hours but Laptop 3 is working maximum 9-10 hours with same tasks (internet browsing, text editing and mailing). Yes and the extra space in touch pad is also a great solution, now I'm working more comfortable and never think to catch a mouse to do something. If you want a laptop with great mobility and battery time then this laptop is for you, of course it's not cheap but the when you start to work on this you know what you paid for.

I just received the laptop. It came in the original packaging, all accessories never opened, and it looks and feels like brand new. So far, I'm very impressed. Let's see in the following days , excellent valeu for the money, even with the taxes to get in in Brazil.

** Update, I got my laptop back, and it's a refurbished model. I believe the Surface Laptop has a hibernation issue where letting the battery die won't allow the surface to boot. That is my best guess, but I don't know for a fact. This review is staying at one star for many reasons, aside from my laptop breaking down within 6 months and having to wait 2 weeks for a refurbished laptop. This laptop has a manufacturing defect with the screen. The screen may crack with the glass. I heard the screen flex and I got a screen protector as I got nervous. Reading many sources online show this will prevent the screen cracking issue. I shouldn't have to worry about this for an expensive laptop, and Microsoft should issue everyone a screen protector free of charge, similar to the iPhone 4 fiasco. This display is randomly turning off for a few seconds, and then randomly turning on again. This is either a Windows 10 issue, or because of the Refurbished laptop. Regardless it shouldn't happen for an expensive laptop. I have never experienced a second defect in the first year of owning a laptop. My previous laptop was a dell inspiron, and while that had an issue with the hinge, it always worked correctly. The hinge with that laptop got loose as it wasn't screwed in correctly, which caused me to get this laptop. That laptop worked better than this one, and was less money. I am NEVER getting a Microsoft product again as they have a ton of issues. I should at least expect a working laptop where the screen stays on and it can always boot. I fear this laptop won't outlast my previous dell Inspiron of 3 years. Again, the only reason the dell inspiron didn't last me over 3 years is because I didn't screw the hinge tighter after it started to get loose, and caused driver issues with the screen. In Summary, if you get this laptop you will encounter issues. 1. A Screen Protector is required with the metal version of the laptop as Microsoft removed the gasket. 2. There is a hibernate bug and causing the battery to die may render it unusable. 3. My display is randomly going black for a few seconds. A 1,000 product should not have this many issues, and I am an extremely disappointed Surface laptop owner. Any other brand will likely outlast this laptop. My original review below. This laptop works completely as advertised, when it works. Opening the screen allows you to log in straight away, the infared camera is good, although it causes issues with web browsers some times (as of chrome 83 it works correctly). After owning the laptop for 6 months the laptop refuses to turn on. I am shown the Microsoft logo and the laptop refuses to boot up. I have received a refurbished laptop from Microsoft after 2 week. (Apparently their is an issue with Surfaces crashing because of hibernation). My laptop may have had a low battery and went into hibernate, but normal laptops will turn on after charging the battery.

When I got my daughter a used Surface Book 2, she fell in love with it. LOVED LOVED LOVED the battery life. And her artistic hand takes full advantage of the tablet mode. Sooo, I got a new Surface Book 3! WOW - I can see why she loves it. Love the inviting keyboard, the responsive BT and I adore the Surface Pen. Screen is GORGEOUS - TV never looked so good. I love the fact that I can take the tablet off and turn it around and reattach it, then still use it like a table, without using the keyboard. LOVE the battery life. This thing literally lasts all day. I'm very impressed. I got the upgraded version with the larger hard drive so I could do Photoshop. Security features are effective, convenient and responsive. A very nice configuration indeed!