

And the touchpad? It’s smooth, precise, and the right size for effortless navigation. The well-spaced, backlit keyboard offers an ideal travel distance, making for a comfortable and accurate typing experience. Typing on the Surface Laptop 5 15 is a dream. Typing and Navigation: A Comfortable Experience In addition, the Gorilla Glass 5 protection and 400-nit maximum brightness ensure you’ll have no problem reading or watching your favorite content, even in well-lit environments. Its Sharp IPS panel delivers vibrant colors and crisp images. The 15-inch PixelSense screen is a visual treat, boasting a 3:2 aspect ratio and a 2496×1664 resolution. Seriously, this laptop would look great on your desk or at your favorite coffee shop. Its minimalist aluminum chassis is available in black and silver, offering a clean, uncluttered look showcasing Microsoft’s commitment to understated elegance. 8 The Verdict: A Solid Choice with Some Limitationsįirst off, this laptop is a real head-turner.5 Everyday Computing and Productivity: A Solid Choice.3 Typing and Navigation: A Comfortable Experience.Surface Laptop 5 reportedly will also get a new 120Hz display panel with Dynamic Refresh matching that of Surface Laptop Studio and Surface Pro 8. Still, perhaps it was to smooth things over instead of delivering positive news. The tech internet recently buzzed with Microsoft’s head of Surface Panos Panay meeting with AMD CEO and president Lisa Su (opens in new tab). We’ll have to take a wait-and-see approach to what Microsoft does here. Or it could simply come down to testing, battery life, performance preferences, or chip availability and pricing with Intel meeting Microsoft’s needs. Granted, there is USB4 as an alternative, which offers similar performance. The potential dropping of AMD may have to do with the omission of Thunderbolt 4 from the Ryzen versions, which could cause some marketing confusion. While an option for AMD Ryzen processors has been a tradition for the last few years, even Windows Central Senior Report Zac Bowden has heard “AMD options might be skipped this fall” when asked about it for this article. However, it is probably too early to commit itself in this regard, so it is not certain whether Microsoft will actually do without AMD Ryzen chips in this model generation.”

“… there is so far no indication that the Redmonders want to offer the Surface Laptop 5 again with AMD chips. WinFuture hedges a bit in its reporting (translated from German): Perhaps the most gloomy news is the AMD omission from Surface Laptop 5. Microsoft's Surfaced Laptop 4 in Matte Black with AMD (2021) (Image credit: Daniel Rubino)
