PC World - USA (2020-01)

70 PCWorld JANUARY 2020

REVIEWS MICROSOFT SURFACE LAPTOP 3 15-INCH (CORE i7)

you through your

workday, and

significantly

longer than what

was achieved by

the 15-inch

Surface Laptop 3

with AMD’s Ryzen

5 CPU (go.

pcworld.com/

sufl), or the

15-inch Surface

Laptop 3 with

Ryzen 7 (go.

pcworld.

com/15ry). Other

than the CPU and

storage variations,

the Surface Laptop 3 units we’ve tested are

largely identical.

We still admire what AMD has

accomplished with its current Surface Edition

chips, and look forward to next year when its

7nm process kicks in. For now, however, this

Surface Laptop 3 with an Intel Core i7 is the

only Surface Laptop 3 we’d recommend.

BASIC SPECS

Display: 13.5-inch (2256x1504) PixelSense;

15-inch (2496x1664) PixelSense (as tested);

both touch-enabled

Processor: 13-inch,15-inch: quad-core

Core i5-1035G7/Core i7-1065G7 (Ice Lake)

Graphics: 13-inch,15-inch: Iris Plus

Memory: 13-inch: 8GB/16GB LPDDR4x;

15-inch: 8GB/16GB/32GB DDR4 (16GB as

tested)

Storage: 13-inch,15-inch:

128/256/512/1TB (256GB as tested)

Ports: USB-C, USB-A, Surface Connect,

3.5mm jack

Camera: 720p (user-facing); Windows

Hello enabled

Battery: 45.8Wh (as reported)

Wireless: 13-inch/15-inch: 802.11ax 2x2

MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0

Operating system: Windows 10 Pro

(business)

Dimensions: 13-inch: 12.1 x 8.8 x 0.57 in.

(14.51mm); 15-inch: 13.4 x 9.6 x 0.57 in.

Our Surface Laptop 3 (Ice Lake) test unit shipped in Platinum, with a metal chassis.