Instead, Microsoft intends to release a dongle which connects to the Surface Connector port. The lack of USB Type-C should be remedied by the end of the year, although this won’t be done by actually creating a version of the Laptop with the port on it. Instead, you get regular USB, mini-DisplayPort and a 3.5mm headphone jack, plus the Surface connector for power and attaching Microsoft’s docking station. The “worse” bit is in the ports: there’s no USB Type-C on the Surface Laptop. It’s exactly the kind of design you would expect the creators of the Surface Pro and Surface Book to come up with if they were making a laptop, for better and worse. I’d also worry about my sweaty wrists staining it over a long period, but without using it for a couple of months constantly, I can’t say if that’s going to happen or not. It’s the kind of thing I’d worry about getting spills on, although it is apparently coated to be spill-resistant. Keys and trackpad are surrounded by Alcantara fabric that adds a bit of softness to the design. It weighs a mere 1.25kg and has a matte aluminium finish that looks great. Where the Surface Book is chunky, the Surface Laptop is svelte. It’s a genuinely good-looking design, too. Given that you can’t detach the screen this isn’t a big deal, but it’s an interesting omission, nonetheless. The screen is ten-point multitouch and supports the Surface Pen, but interestingly it doesn’t support the tilt feature of the latest version of the Pen. Like the Surface Book, the screen has a 3:2 aspect ratio, which I prefer over widescreen displays for the simple reason that I spend my life on the web and the web is designed to be deep rather than wide. Placed side by side with a Surface Book, there’s a palpable difference, and it’s not favourable to the Surface Laptop The 77.1% sRGB colour gamut coverage and average Delta E of 4.67 tell a tale of poor colour accuracy. This is the worst display Microsoft has shipped by some margin. I’d like to say it, but sadly it wouldn’t be entirely true. Microsoft has always put great displays on its portable devices, and I’d like to say that the Surface Laptop continues this. Microsoft Surface Book vs Microsoft Surface Pro 4: Two tribes go to war
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