Microsoft today announced the Surface Laptop 4, continuing the tradition of incremental improvements in what is the company’s basic Windows laptop with a touchscreen. Design-wise, there are…
Microsoft today announced the Surface Laptop 4, continuing the tradition of incremental improvements in what is the company’s basic Windows laptop with a touchscreen. Design-wise, there are no noticeable differences when compared to the Surface Laptop 3 which launched more than a year ago, as both the 13.5-inch and 15-inch models look virtually identical to their predecessors. With the Surface Laptop 3, the company introduced an AMD Ryzen-powered option for the 15-inch variant, and now you can also have that with the 13.5-inch model. However, these are not powered by AMD’s latest Zen 3 mobile CPUs, instead you’ll be getting a Ryzen 5 4680U with the 13.5-inch model and a Ryzen 7 4980U with the 15-inch variant. Going the AMD route will be between $100 and $300 cheaper, but if you’re more of an Intel fan, you also get a bit more choice for the processor in the 13.5-inch version. Not only that, but Microsoft is only offering 32 GB of RAM and 1TB of PCIe SSD storage in models equipped with an Intel 11th-gen Tiger Lake-U CPU.
