It plays videos (such as my favourite test, the 1982 Stratford Festival Mikado) smoothly, with quite respectable speakers and Dolby Audio Premium sound that handled the music effortlessly. The original merely adhered to the edge of the top cover. The only difference is the connector: a magnetically attached connection that fits into the Surface Connect slot on the side of the device.

It weighs just over 1 kg, including the same power brick that has run Surface devices since day one. It feels sturdy there’s no flexing when you pick it up. It’s an attractive device, coming in multiple colours including Sage, Ice Blue, Sandstone, and Platinum, and constructed with a base of aluminum and polycarbonate composite resin with glass fibre and post-consumer recycled content. The system comes loaded with Windows 11 Home. The review unit we received had a 12.4-inch PixelSense touchscreen display, with a 1536 x 1024 resolution, a quad-core Intel 11th-gen Core i5 processor, 8 GB of RAM (the base model has 4 GB), and a 256 GB SSD (base is 128 GB – don’t bother with it). However, it’s not for everyone (few machines are) we took a look to see where it would suit. It’s a compact, lightweight machine adequate for most basic tasks, including document creation, web surfing, and playing videos.

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