The Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 adds Intel's 12th-gen CPUs and drops AMD's Ryzen processors while maintaining excellent build quality and aesthetics.
Microsoft’s conventional laptop, the Surface Laptop, is in its fifth generation. The newly announced Surface Laptop 5 provides mostly iterative updates to the Surface Laptop 4, with the biggest change being what it no longer offers. The update to Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs is welcome, while the move away from AMD’s Ryzen lineup reduces potential performance and the usefulness of the laptop to creators.
The 15-inch model has an entry level price of $1,100 for a Core i5, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. It’s $2,400 for a Core i7, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, with commercial configurations costing $100 more. While the 13.5-inch iption is relatively thin at 0.57 inches and light at 2.8 pounds, the 15-inch model is among the thinnest laptops currently on the market at 0.58 inches while being reasonably light at 3.44 pounds.
A significant switch in CPUs The most significant update to the Surface Laptop 5 is a switch to Intel’s 15-watt 12th-gen Core i5-1235U and Core i7-1255U CPUs combined with a migration away from AMD Ryzen chips. The new processors offer 10 cores with 12 threads, which in our testing has resulted in competent productivity performance and enhanced efficiency.
Microsoft predicts up to 18 hours of battery life with the 13.5-inch model and 17 hours with the 15-inch. Microsoft doesn’t list the battery size in its specs, but the Surface Laptop 4 had 45.8 watt-hours. We’ll confirm battery life when we review the Surface Laptop 5. The display quality is likely unchanged from the Surface Laptop 4, which provided solid brightness, average color width with good accuracy, and just under our 1,000:1 contrast ratio threshold. That would make it a good but not spectacular display, which we’ll confirm once we can apply our colorimeter.
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