

You can find them on the Microsoft online store. Prices start at S$1,588 for the 13.5-inch model and S$2,038 for the 15-inch model. The Surface Laptop 5 will be available starting 25 October 2022 but pre-orders start now. This lets it play well with a wide variety of accessories including external graphics docks, connectivity docks and speedy external SSD storage devices. The only notable update is the inclusion of a USB-C port that supports Thunderbolt 4. This can be paired with up to 32GB of LPDDR5 memory and up to 1TB of SSD storage. You can choose between the Core i5-1235U or the more powerful Core i7-1265U. We’re great partners with AMD, we continue to work with them on longer term projects but for Laptop 5 we don’t have AMD models.Īnyway, what you'd find inside the Surface Laptop 5 are Intel's 12th Gen Core Alder Lake processors. When quizzed about the lack of AMD options, Pete Kyriacou, VP of program management at Microsoft said: Microsoft used to offer the choice of Intel and AMD processors but it's going to be Intel only for the Surface Laptop 5.

Since it's mostly familiar on the outside, you can read up more about our experience with the Surface Laptop 4 to get more input on what to expect on the newcomer.

The PixelSense display is largely unchanged so you have the same 3:2 aspect ratio, resolution, and pixel density. Microsoft is still offering the Surface Laptop 5 in two sizes: 13.5 and 15 inches. The only change on the outside is that there's a new Sage Green colourway, but it remains to be seen if this option is going to be available in Singapore. Microsoft has just announced the new Surface Laptop 5 and there are things you need to know even if the devices themselves still sport the same design and dimensions. However, it doesn't seem like we'll see upgradable RAM since Microsoft seems to believe that everyday users are subject to liquid nitrogen attacks.Meet the new Microsoft Surface Laptop 5, now with Thunderbolt 4 Microsoft eliminated its very own fear about Thunderbolt security, which might mean that we'll see Thunderbolt technology on new Surface devices. For a tablet, the Microsoft Surface already has a lot of connectivity options more typically. Yes, the threat of that is definitely more plausible for an everyday user, and yet, in Windows 10 1803, Microsoft introduced Kernel DMA Protection, which protects users from that exact vulnerability. How to Use the Microsoft Surface Dock with Your Surface Pro 4. It's one of the reasons why Thunderbolt is so fast, but some sneaky attacker can slip a device into that slot and steal your encryption keys or inject malware into your system. Thunderbolt uses Direct Memory Access, so that means it can read and write directly to the RAM without other components getting involved. Microsoft's apparent reason for excluding Thunderbolt 3 ports is directly related, unfortunately. If an attacker gets close enough to you to steal your RAM, I'm sure you have more problems to worry about than them whipping out a can of liquid nitrogen.
