Review: Microsoft’s latest laptop is elegantly overdesigned

Review: Microsoft’s latest laptop is elegantly overdesigned
There is ingenious engineering in the Surface Laptop Studio. (Image: Microsoft)
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Microsoft’s range of Surface computers started off simple enough, with the Surface Pro successfully pioneering the 2-in-1 category that combines laptop and tablet functions.Over the past ten years, the company has iterated on that success with the Surface Laptop, a very normal but good computer, and the Surface Book, which was a powerful laptop whose display could physically detach from the solid keyboard base to be used as a tablet.The Surface Book was a novel approach and different to the Surface Pro, and I have used one for several yea...

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