And of course, you can see the Alcantara keyboard deck. I do believe this is to keep the design consistent with their tablets, but you do not need bezels on a laptop, since you do not hold a laptop by its screen. Having used a near-bezelless laptop for the last few years, the bezels here are humongous by comparison. And that’s the relatively huge bezels around the display. With the laptop open, we find the first thing that’s not exactly appealing.

You will see no screw holes on the bottom of the Surface Laptop 4, as they are hidden under the rubber feet. The bottom itself is slightly raised with little rubber feet, but there are no intakes here. The only vents are visible here along the back edge. Over on the bottom, we get nice sharp bevels that run around the whole laptop. Design wise, it does look like Microsoft took a few cues from their tablets, and used it for the upper half here, as it does feel almost like a tablet. There are no bevels here, and the edges just falls away cleanly. The Windows logo contrasts against the rest of the finishing with a mirror shine. The lid of the Surface Laptop 4 is made of aluminum, and it gets a nice matte finish that’s just perfect to the touch. I won’t be doing a full in-depth review of the Surface Arc Mouse, but we will be discussing it in a bit. While the mouse doesn’t come free with every Surface Laptop 4, we received a Microsoft Surface Arc Mouse along with our Surface Laptop 4 for testing.

It charges via the Surface Connect port, and we will get to that in a bit. I am a bit more torn about the connector for the Surface Laptop 4 though. A faster charging rate for the USB port would have been appreciated, but this is still way more convenient than most laptops already. I really quite like this design as it means that you won’t have to bring several power adapters with you when you travel, as all you need is the Surface Laptop 4’s to charge all your devices. That’s because instead of delivering all 65W to the laptop, 5W is for the USB-A port here.

In the case of the Surface Laptop 4’s charger, 60+5W does not equal to 65W. I wish it was just integrated into the user guide itself though, just to save a bit of paper. There’s even a “Caring for your Surface Laptop” guide, which is a nice reminder of sorts to help you take care of the fancy Alcantara keyboard deck.

You get the usual stash of documentations, as well as a pretty nifty 60+5W power adapter. In the box, the contents are also pretty standard.

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