Mind you that Intel processor is also available as an option in the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4, albeit costs more than our model.īut enough about synthetic benchmarks, because let’s be real: people won’t be buying it to run Cinebench all day. While the 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 does slightly score higher for single core CPU performance, the eight cores on the Ryzen 7 Microsoft Surface Edition totally outdoes its Intel counterpart in multicore performance. And I have to say, it’s pretty impressive.

Seeing as it is supposed to be a custom processor, as a PC nerd I couldn’t resist putting it through its paces with benchmarks. Admittedly, it’s a little obsolete upon release-that custom processor, a Ryzen 7 4980U, may be the best AMD U-series chip of its generation, but it’s still from the last generation. Our review unit, the 15-inch version, has a custom AMD Ryzen 7 Microsoft Surface Edition CPU, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Having used this device for a couple of weeks, the gist of it is that it has phenomenal performance. So how did my time with it go? Incredible performance, thanks to some special silicon But when Microsoft offered the Surface Laptop 4 for review, well, it’s certainly hard to say no.

With that in mind, I should also probably make it clear that I don’t normally use such premium laptops I’m more of a price-to-performance kind of guy. The Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 is very much for the latter demographic.

You can get a sleek, ultra-portable laptop for work at almost any price range these days, be it for budget-conscious students or boardroom members wanting the best. The Windows thin-and-light market has been getting more and more saturated with new releases all the time.

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