Microsoft Surface 3

Microsoft Surface 3 Price in Pakistan

Design

When Microsoft Surface 3 was introduced about three years back they vaunted the Alcantara surface as a unique selling point over traditional metal Ultrabooks. Alcantara is softer in texture and easier to make available in different colors than anodized magnesium or aluminum alloy. The problem, however, is that Alcantara is easier to damage and more difficult to clean with a tendency to collect unsightly grease over time. Surface Laptop fans clamoring for a metal option now have their wish on the 13.5-inch Surface Laptop 3. The smooth matte aluminum texture now feels more like the metal Apple MacBook, Razer Blade, or Huawei MateBook X Pro that we’re all already accustomed to. When compared to Alcantara, the system feels stiffer and more like a high-quality unibody design. Both the base and lid warp very little when attempting to twist them. Nonetheless, our test unit would creak slightly around the hinges when adjusting the angle of the display to suggest that the manufacturing could be better.

Processor

The Microsoft Surface 3 is equippes with the Intel Core i5-1035G7 is a power efficient quad-core SoC for laptops and Ultrabooks based on the Ice -Lake U generation that was announced in Mai 2019 (Computex). It integrates four Sunnycove processor cores (8 threads thanks to HyperThreading) clocked at 1.2 (base) – 3.7 (single core Turbo) GHz. 2 cores can reach 3.6 GHz and all four 3.3 GHz using Turbo Boost. According to Intel the Sunnycove cores achieve 18% more IPCs (Instructions per Clock)  and therefore the CPU performance should be similar to the higher clocked Whiskey-Lake predecessors (e.g. Core i5-8365U with up to 4.1 GHz). The Core i5-1035G7 is the second fastest Ice Lake-U chip at the time of announcement in 2019.

Display

Microsoft Surface 3 has apparently switched panel providers for its latest Surface Laptop. Whereas the Surface Laptop 2 comes with a Panasonic VVX14T092N00 panel, our Surface Laptop 3 uses a Sharp LQ135P1JX51 instead. Response times are slightly faster on the Sharp panel, but both displays are otherwise nearly the same when it comes to brightness and gamut. Sharpness and overall visual quality rival that of flagship Ultrabooks like the XPS 13, Yoga C940, Spectre 13, or ZenBook S13.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The keyboard and clickpad are the same as on the larger 15-inch Surface Laptop 3. Even the size of the keys and and clickpad surface (~11.5 x 7.6 cm) are identical between them. Thus, our existing comments about the input devices on the Surface Laptop 3 15 apply here on the 13.5-inch model including the satisfactory feedback, moderate clatter, and cramped Arrow keys. We still find the typing experience on the HP Spectre or Lenovo ThinkPad T series to be firmer and with deeper feedback.