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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor

RARE PHOTOS: Microsoft surface laptop 5 review slick operation but dated design | Vintage Vibes

Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 review sitting open on a table showing the start menu.
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 5 is snappy, offering a refined Windows 11 experience free of cruft. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop has new chips, new connections and costs the same as last year but has a five-year-old design that makes it look aged.

The Surface Laptop 5 starts at £999 ($999/A$1,699) for the 13.5in version, replacing the 18-month-old Laptop 4 as Microsoft’s idea of what a standard Windows 11 notebook should be. It sits above Microsoft’s entry-level Surface Laptop Go 2, which comes in at £529.

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