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FIRST TEST MICROSOFT SURFACE LAPTOP
Mat book hair

Microsoft has finally got into the laptop business – but rather than opting
for a no-frills power machine, it’s decided to go with fitted carpets

from £979 / microsoft.com

L ife is full of mysteries. two, though, it isn’t a tablet researching and procrastinating. Windows 10 S, it can only run
Basically, students and
with a detachable keyboard
apps you’ve downloaded from
How did Two and
and stylus; it is instead an old-
the Windows Store. But while
journalists with a curiously large
a Half Men last
12 seasons? Who fashioned kind of computer with chunk of cash to spare and lots that might make it sound like
invented the platypus? Why the looks and performance to of deadlines to hit. a jazzed-up Chromebook with
[ Words Rob Leedham ] to make a laptop? is important here, because it and average portable work machine. Laptop is actually one of the
has it taken Microsoft this long
rival Apple’s MacBook.
a near-£1k price tag, the Surface
But the Surface isn’t your
That MacBook comparison
First up, it’s covered in carpet.
Just like the Surface Pro and
standout computers that you
Surface Book before it, the
the Surface Laptop are aimed
can buy right now.
Yep, you heard right - Alcantara,
How so? We’ll do our best to
at the same sort of people:
Surface Laptop is a brilliant
to be specific. Plus, as the world’s
creation. Unlike those previous
first device powered by the new
folk who do a lot of typing,
explain this head-scratcher…
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