Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 – 13.5 Touch-Screen – Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory – 1TB Solid State Drive – Matte Black

Ive had my Surface for about a month now and I love it. Im a writer so it was important for me to have a smaller, thinner laptop that didnt sacrifice keyboard space or screen size. This does that. (I had initially bought a 12.5 inch HP Spectre and returned it because the keyboard was not comfortable at all.)

I bought the matte black 13.5 inch, i5 with 256gb of storage, 8gb of RAM from Best Buy. $200 off on a sale for a new laptop was pretty attractive.

Weve been using the Surface laptop for a few weeks now and it has been a solid performer. The design aesthetics are very modern, with a sleek sandstone outer shell and an extremely slender profile. The laptop weight is light and it fits extremely easily into any carry case designed to hold a 13.5 screen device. One thing youll notice is there are very few ports: this is great for style but you may feel limited by the one USB connection, so something to be aware of. The power cord connects flush to the body with a magnetic click.

Apart from its beautiful design, build quality and great keyboard, there’s nothing good about this laptop which every user expect. 11.5 hrs battery life is a clear LIE from microsoft. Mine doesn’t even last 4 hrs. As per testing purpose, I only watched netflix once and it lasted only 4.75 hrs at 50% brightness!!! I have already got one replacement within first 3 month of use and still the results are almost same. Add couple hundreds more to your budget and get a thinkpad.

This is the best laptop I’ve ever owned.