Microsoft introduced the Surface Laptop four on Tuesday, providing a potent mixture of efficiency upgrades and battery life enhancements within the acquainted 13.5-inch and 15-inch clamshell sizes, for costs as little as $999.
Unlike its predecessor, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop four now gives decisions in each sizes between AMD’s Ryzen 4000 Mobile processors or Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake Core chips. Microsoft guarantees as much as 70 p.c extra efficiency versus the Surface Laptop 3, and even as much as twice the efficiency of its predecessor below sure testing eventualities.
Another main improve customers will see is battery life. Microsoft claims (in accordance with its personal metrics) that the Surface Laptop four will supply as much as 19 hours of battery life, 7.5 hours extra than the Surface Laptop 3. That can be the longest battery lifetime of any Surface product Microsoft has shipped, in accordance with the corporate.
Physically, the Surface Laptop four appears to be like almost similar to earlier generations, in each the 13.5-inch and 15-inch variations. One exterior addition over the prior era is a detachable SSD port, although it’s not technically user-serviceable. “[The] hard drive is only removable by an authorized technician following Microsoft provided instructions,” Microsoft says. As for exterior supplies, Microsoft will supply each the Alcantara material in addition to the aluminum steel choices we noticed within the Surface Laptop 3, in coloration decisions of Platinum, Matte Black, Sandstone, and Ice Blue.
