

Microsoft designed an overhang by making the display housing slightly larger than the base, which allows the user to easily open the laptop with one finger. On the laptop deck, we see a chiclet style keyboard with a generously sized touchpad. The laptop features USB-A, USB-C and headphone jacks on the left while the surface connect port is on the right.

Weighing in at just over 2.8 pounds, the sandstone-colored, all-aluminum laptop sports a 13.5-inch display with a camera and several sensors above it for the Windows Hello facial recognition service.

Tobias even showed his first laptop - a Thinkpad - that he dug out of his attic.Īs gadget people, it’s fun to reminisce about the days of modular parts and swappable batteries, but it is hard to argue that all of it is necessary now that the world has shifted to efficient and powerful computing, wireless technologies, and cloud based applications. We were particularly grateful for Molly’s experience working on Chromebooks while at Google to help guide us through some interesting design choices. Tobias and Molly joined me for this teardown after sharing their first laptop experiences. That helped us open the device up and see what the engineering team has learned and then implemented in this latest laptop iteration. While maintaining nearly the same dimensions, they have made it easier to pry open the device and get a look inside. Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop – Image courtesy of .įast forward to the 4th generation of the Surface laptop, and Microsoft has tweaked its design approach. My colleagues and I nicknamed them “lap crushers” instead of “laptops.” Things have changed in the last 15 years! Upon starting my first job, I was issued an 8-pound, 17-inch desktop replacement that I dutifully lugged back and forth from the office each day and on countless trips to China. Unlike Microsoft’s first laptop, my first laptop experience was quite different. As a signature look, the engineering team found a way to incorporate the soft Alcantara fabric over the keyboard deck. The first Surface Laptop was thin, light, and powerful with good battery life. The Microsoft Surface Laptop line of products was launched in 2017 as Microsoft wanted to show the world their vision for the ideal Windows laptop experience.

Change Notice: We opened up a Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 and found a unique inverted bucket architecture
