Microsoft and AMD’s Surface Laptop 3 Is Something Special

The 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 might be one of the most portable 15-inch devices I've ever used. It's thin, it weighs just 3.4 pounds, it has a big 15-inch display, and somehow it manages to be pretty powerful to boot. I've rarely used a laptop this big that feels so small when transported from home to office, or even just around the house. It's absolutely excellent. It's also the first premium device in years to rely on an AMD processor instead of an Intel one. AMD and Microsoft have both made a very big deal about this partnership and having used the Surface Laptop 3 for almost a week, I understand their enthusiasm. Advertisement The Surface Laptop 3 is the third generation of Microsoft's attempt at a great $1,000 laptop. This year Microsoft produced two types of Surface Laptops. A 13.5-inch version that starts at $1,000 and has a 10th-generation Intel Ice Lake CPU inside, and a 15-inch version that starts at $1,500 and relies on an AMD Zen 2 processor with a souped-up Vega GPU. The one reviewed here is the $1,700 version with Ryzen 5 3580U CPU, Vega 9 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD. That's a… Read full this story

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