Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Didn't want to wait two days so I went brick and motor to buy this today. Laptop manufacturers take note, THIS is how you do a cost down version of a premium product. I got the 128Gb model and I would highly recommend not getting the $550 unless that's the absolute limit on what you can spend. Lets start with the screen. Despite the resolution hit compared to the Surface Laptop 3 this screen STILL looks amazing. Nice colors, the 3:2 aspect ratio is REALLY nice and I really wish laptop manufacturers would get the picture already and make 3:2 computers already for people that work more than they watch YouTube videos, and while it can't use the Surface Pen with this screen I think Microsoft thought that if you really need to buy a $140 pen you can probably afford the Surface Laptop 3. I kinda agree since this laptop doesn't really target the high end crowd, it's more of a budget computer. Keyboard feels great! The keys aren't mushy and they're also not obnoxiously loud. Just the right balance of noise to feel. Bad news though, the keyboard isn't backlit. Somewhat understandable since they need to get that advertised long battery life and backlit keyboards do suck a lot of power over time. They keys feel nice and evenly spaced out. No short shift nonsense although Tab is a little smaller but that's fine. The fingerprint windows hello is really nice and way quicker than the one on my phone too. It does run a little hot when on the lap but not uncomfortably hot. And it only gets loud when I'm basically torture testing the thing. Otherwise for video chat or writing things or general browsing and light work it's nice and quiet. Also unless you have the $550 version turn the Windows S mode off immediately. No offense to Microsoft but the Windows Store sucks. My only real complaint is that I really wish there was an Alcantara variant. I love the soft feel of the Alcantara keyboards the few times I've used the more premium devices. Otherwise I would highly recommend people get the $700 version.