12 TECH ADVISOR • JANUARY 2020MICROSOFT SURFACE EVENT
A quick digression about Surface keyboards: the
Surface Book series still provides what I consider to be
the premier Surface typing experience. The first-gen
Surface Book’s keys (with 1.6mm key travel) extend
upward from the chassis, while the top of the Laptop’s
keys are level with the chassis. That means that the
Laptop’s keyboard actually rests in a valley of sorts,
stretching your fingers a bit further. It’s a subtlety, but
subtleties distinguish good keyboards from great ones.
Microsoft also inexplicably rearranged the function
keys on the Surface Laptop 3’s top row, moving the
backlight key to the far left and the screen brightness
keys to the middle. Small guide bumps were added
to the function keys as well.Microsoft rearranged
some of the Surface
Laptop 3’s function
keys and slightly
reduced the key travel.
The metallic chassis
does tend to attract
fingerprints, too12 TECH ADVISOR • JANUARY 2020MICROSOFT SURFACE EVENT
A quick digression about Surface keyboards: the
Surface Book series still provides what I consider to be
the premier Surface typing experience. The first-gen
Surface Book’s keys (with 1.6mm key travel) extend
upward from the chassis, while the top of the Laptop’s
keys are level with the chassis. That means that the
Laptop’s keyboard actually rests in a valley of sorts,
stretching your fingers a bit further. It’s a subtlety, but
subtleties distinguish good keyboards from great ones.
Microsoft also inexplicably rearranged the function
keys on the Surface Laptop 3’s top row, moving the
backlight key to the far left and the screen brightness
keystothemiddle.Smallguide bumps were added
tothe function keys as well.Microsoft rearranged
some of the Surface
Laptop 3’s function
keys and slightly
reduced the key travel.
The metallic chassis
does tend to attract
fingerprints, too