Top-notch Surface

MANUFACTURERS recognise that there are still some holdouts who prefer a traditional laptop and Microsoft is one of them.

The company has been churning out laptops with great build quality and with its Surface Laptop 3, Microsoft once again has a hit product.

It's thin, robust and incredibly well-made, and the black aluminium version I tested is truly handsome and the one to get. It retains the wedge shape that the Surface Laptop range is known for, just with a little design input from Darth Vader, making the whole package sophisticated and luxurious.

But the black aluminium version will force-choke you with its price. Our review unit - with a Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage - costs S$1,888, S$400 more than the base model. However, the keyboard…