I miss the old MacBook Pro keys, so I'm happy to see that Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 keyboard provides the typing experience that I wish Apple still did. Jefferson Starship's "Jane" sounded strong and accurate as the high notes blasted from the laptop's speakers. There's no included audio adjustment utility, but you won't need one. I nodded my head as the bass thumped and the percussion instruments (which can sometimes get lost) rattled clearly in the background. I smiled as I sat back and listened to Frank Ocean's serene vocals on the morbid track "Swim Good" as his voice came from the Surface Laptop 3, filling one of our medium-size conference rooms. Pinching and pulling images to zoom in and out also functioned with the speed you'd expect from a machine this costly. Touch-screen gestures, including swiping in from the left and right sides, and scrolling through web pages, worked quickly on the Surface Laptop 3. Colors of videos and websites retained their color when I viewed the screen from 40 degrees to the left and right, but glare from the glossy, reflective panel slightly obscured details. We saw even brighter screens in the Dell XPS 15 (418 nits and 626 nits in the 4K and 4K OLED versions, respectively), the 15-inch MacBook Pro (403 nits) and the 4K HDR ThinkPad X1 Carbon (432 nits). The Surface Laptop 3 emits up to 380 nits of brightness, which makes it bright enough to leap over the 346-nit laptop average and the 1080p version of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (336 nits) - but not other panels. Watching the final Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer on the Laptop, I noticed beautifully cold blues in an ice fortress, opulent gold tones from C-3PO's body and rich browns in Chewbacca's fur. We saw more colorful screens in the XPS 15 (239% for 4K OLED, 210% for 4K) and the 4K HDR ThinkPad X1 Carbon panel (144%). Of the laptops we're comparing it with, the closest scores we saw were the 109% mark from the ThinkPad X1 Carbon's 1080p screen and the 114% score from the 15-inch MacBook Pro. Our colorimeter rates the Surface Laptop 3 as producing 101% of the sRGB spectrum, which might sound like a lot, but it's still less than the 131% premium laptop average.
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