Microsoft Surface Laptop 3-13.5" Touch-Screen - Intel Core i7-16GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive (Latest Model) - Cobalt Blue

I bought this mainly to be my dedicated personal/music recording laptop (I use another equipment for company work). It's really powerful considering the price, size and weight (enough to play Divinity 2 over Steam, for example). Camera is impressively good and can compensate very well for poor lighting with very little noise. Sound is fair for overall use (I use an external Focusrite interface for music recording/editing). Now the cons:1. Because I usually run it on power, only after a few months I realized this odd behavior of completely shutting down randomly when running on battery, even with battery full. Tried to fix it via software several times (Windows and Firmware updates, Factory Reset and Recovery from USB). Nothing worked. Seems like a hardware defect by the behavior and result of some online research so I returned it for replacement. Hope the new unit works.2. The keyboard looks fragile. You can see its surface bending while you type. I wonder how long until I need to repair/replace it.3. It would be nice if the touch screen could be flipped all the way back to work like a tablet.4. The face recognition log in mechanism (I don't recall how Microsoft calls it) is a little bit odd and I'm thinking about disabling it completely. Did some research and it appears it uses an infrared dedicated camera instead of the main "normal" camera so this would explain why it was recognizing me even with the regular camera covered. I never got to confirm this a 100% but then I decided to test in a way where I wasn't even in front of the screen and the thing would unlock sometimes! Since I use it only at home in these quarantine times, not a big deal, but I would NEVER leave this thing enabled if taking it outside.Overall, assuming the replacement will solve the battery problem, I would see this laptop has a nice value for money on its tier.

I've owned the Surface Pro 1 and Surface Pro 3. I saw Microsoft was coming out with more "laptop-esque" machines but always thought I'd stick with the Pro line forever. However one gripe I had about the Pro series was screen tilt, especially when trying to video chat. Unlike traditional laptops, you can't tilt the screen forward, which makes for awkward angles when video chatting or watching movies, etc. I decided to go with Surface Laptop and I won't be going back! I love this computer. Screen size is awesome and display is clear. Touch is sensitive and responsive. Keyboard is comfortable. And the machine it self is gorgeous. Just buy it!

I have the Surface laptop 2 and when I found out they fixed all my issues I had with it in the 3... I was hyped..Despite fixing the track pad, repair ability concerns, USB C, Wifi 6, etc. They changed the keyboard....The new keyboard feels cheap with the space bar being uneven. They reduced the key travel and the spacebar makes annoying sound when pressed. I went to the store to see if it was just my unit and sadly it wasn't. This laptop is great if you weren't spoiled by the better keyboard on the surface laptop 1/2.Really sad how they made the whole laptop worse as a whole.. despite being better in every other way I wanted it to be.

Gets 2 to 3 hours of battery life and is already hanging up when switching apps (specifically MW teams and PowerPoint) after a month old. Cannot play civilization 6 without getting so hot you can’t hold the laptop for long. Ridiculous charger configuration that falls out easily.Update: after one year of use, battery life is now 90 mins on a full charge. Terrible battery on the surface pro I received.