The starting price is higher, though, at £1,199, as the minimum storage specification is 256GB. The most recent Dell XPS 13 is in the same class when it comes to design, ergonomics and portability, and it’s slightly cheaper for equivalent specifications. Of course, the MacBook Air isn’t the Surface Laptop 3’s only rival. Sandstone, Black, Cobalt Blue (Alcantara), Platinum (Alcantara) There’s a good spread of configurations available too, so you're bound to be able to find something that suits your needs. The equivalent MacBook Air is £400 more expensive. I tested the Core i7-1065G7 Surface Laptop 3 with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, a configuration that costs £1,549. That money gets you a 1.2GHz Intel Core i5-1035G7 CPU, backed by 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage – and as you move up through the specifications, the savings versus Apple only increase. When it comes to price, the new Surface Laptop gets off to a good start: while the MacBook Air starts at £1,099, the entry-level Surface Laptop 3 is just £999. Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (13.5in) review: Price and competition I’ll be following up with a review of that model as soon as I receive one for testing.Īdd those changes to what was already a rather excellent laptop, with a 3:2 high-DPI display and a decent keyboard and touchpad, and you have yourself a very viable rival to the MacBook Air. A 15in model is on offer for the first time too, for those who want more desktop real estate to play with. The laptop also now has an SSD that’s upgradeable (albeit only by engineers) rather than being soldered directly to the motherboard, and a new dual far-field microphone array designed for clearer videoconferencing – and to make talking to Cortana easier (oh goody).
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