Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop 4 on Tuesday with some bold performance claims: The Surface Laptop 4 should surpass the performance of the Surface Laptop 3 by 70 percent or so, or even offer twice the performance under certain scenarios.
Does it live up to the hype? We've put the newest version of the Surface Laptop through its paces to find out.
Surface Laptop 4 Compared To
The Surface Laptop 4 is basically a bigger, beefier version of the Surface Laptop. It's even more powerful than the current and last-generation Surface Book. And while the current Surface Laptop 4 is available in features such as higher resolution cameras and a reversible kickstand, this Pro kickstand is specifically for these server of machines.
You've also got a two-pipe heat pump system that gives you consistent temperatures across the device . As far as I could tell, the Surface Laptop 4 is totally straight out of the box, it just doesn't have any recommendation or instruction manuals. I'm not sure what's best. In the future, Microsoft should include them between the box components instead of right on the machine.
Design and Not So Desktop Gaming Alpha
This First Look well does the machine a great disservice by suggesting Microsoft spun their own machine, something that may never happen. Maybe a Microsoft-designated laptop is just the difference in design we never needed, but this new prototype does look quite a lot like the Surface Pro 5. Compared to how square this thing is by comparison it feels like a Surface Pro book.
Okay, I guess it's like a blue print of what the Surface Book could look like. Unless Microsoft buys all the printers and scrapbooks from The One Pixels and put them into this phablet. Then maybe that some readable shop sign are you kidding me?
We're focused on finding out how this laptop performs. We might not love it as a desktop replacement, but at least we're willing to try it! It seems the kickstand will, like the current Surface Pro model, always be available. In short, this machine doesn't feel like a supersized Surface Pro.
Still, the weight seems to be quite a hefty 2.5 pounds. With the kickstand, we could imagine this one doing a lot more than three hours+ of battery life. If you're not that conservative (read: you don't use it a lot), you could have LTE for a few days, but that would push the costs way up. I'm still not sure we're crazy about it. I'd recommend matte spacing for a touch screen though one item I noticed in the Surface Pro review referred to it as a laser-touch for some reason or another. For example, me typing on the
Does it live up to the hype? We've put the newest version of the Surface Laptop through its paces to find out.
Surface Laptop 4 Compared To
The Surface Laptop 4 is basically a bigger, beefier version of the Surface Laptop. It's even more powerful than the current and last-generation Surface Book. And while the current Surface Laptop 4 is available in features such as higher resolution cameras and a reversible kickstand, this Pro kickstand is specifically for these server of machines.
You've also got a two-pipe heat pump system that gives you consistent temperatures across the device . As far as I could tell, the Surface Laptop 4 is totally straight out of the box, it just doesn't have any recommendation or instruction manuals. I'm not sure what's best. In the future, Microsoft should include them between the box components instead of right on the machine.
Design and Not So Desktop Gaming Alpha
This First Look well does the machine a great disservice by suggesting Microsoft spun their own machine, something that may never happen. Maybe a Microsoft-designated laptop is just the difference in design we never needed, but this new prototype does look quite a lot like the Surface Pro 5. Compared to how square this thing is by comparison it feels like a Surface Pro book.
Okay, I guess it's like a blue print of what the Surface Book could look like. Unless Microsoft buys all the printers and scrapbooks from The One Pixels and put them into this phablet. Then maybe that some readable shop sign are you kidding me?
We're focused on finding out how this laptop performs. We might not love it as a desktop replacement, but at least we're willing to try it! It seems the kickstand will, like the current Surface Pro model, always be available. In short, this machine doesn't feel like a supersized Surface Pro.
Still, the weight seems to be quite a hefty 2.5 pounds. With the kickstand, we could imagine this one doing a lot more than three hours+ of battery life. If you're not that conservative (read: you don't use it a lot), you could have LTE for a few days, but that would push the costs way up. I'm still not sure we're crazy about it. I'd recommend matte spacing for a touch screen though one item I noticed in the Surface Pro review referred to it as a laser-touch for some reason or another. For example, me typing on the
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