Yes, the 15-inch Surface Laptop can play popular games like Fortnite at decent settings - mostly “high” graphics at up to 60 fps - without choking up. Compared to my MacBook Pro keyboard, the keys on the Surface Laptop 3 are squishier, have more travel, and are quieter.īut where you’ll really see big performance leaps is for graphics-heavy workloads like editing video and gaming. The Surface Laptop 3 breezes through common tasks like browsing the web (even with two dozen open Chrome tabs), watching 4K YouTube videos, and editing RAW photos in Adobe Lightroom. No Intel inside, but it's fine - And of course, the Surface Laptop 3 comes with plenty of specs: up to 16GB of RAM, up to 1TB of SSD storage, and either an AMD Ryzen 5 3580U processor with Radeon Vega 9 graphics or the Ryzen 7 3780U processor with Radeon RX Vega 11 graphics. Similarly, the trackpad is larger than on Surface Laptop 2 and just as smooth there’s no janky tracking like on other Windows laptops. I can’t ask for a better laptop keyboard. Compared to my MacBook Pro keyboard, the keys on the Surface Laptop 3 are squishier, have more travel, and are quieter. Ryan Houlihan / InputĮxcellent inputs - The keyboard and trackpad are both excellent. There’s no fingerprint sensor like there is on MacBooks, though. The 720p webcam supports Windows Hello face sign-in and makes me wish my MacBook Pro had Face ID. The 2,496 x 1,664 resolution “PixelSense” display is tack sharp and the 10-finger touchscreen is super responsive. It’s lighter and thinner than a 15-inch MacBook Pro, and it’s sleek in matte black. There’s little to dislike about the 15-inch Surface Laptop 3.

But I’m fine with metal - it’s easier to wipe down after snacking over the keys anyway. There’s no subtly soft alacantra keyboard option. Unmistakably Surface-y - Aside from the larger screen and more powerful performance, the bigger Surface Laptop 3 is identical to its 13-inch sibling, though the 15-inch only comes in aluminum. It’s acceptable for a smaller laptop to have fewer ports, but a 15-inch laptop with only two USBs is 100% wrong. The Surface Laptop 3 has the same ports as the 13.5-inch version: one USB-C, one USB-A, a headphone jack, and a Surface Connect port.

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