The laptop is just 0.57 inches thick and weighs just 2.79 pounds (1.3 kg), which makes it a breeze to carry around in your bag while commuting around. The bottom of the laptop looks similar, but the keyboard tray has a slightly darker color. The lid of the Platinum Surface Laptop 4 is, well, platinum-colored, with the only marking being a chrome Microsoft logo square in the middle of the laptop. It comes in four color options, and we got the Platinum option. The model we got in for review is the 13.5-inch Surface Laptop 4, and it is one of the most lightweight and thin laptops we've ever used that doesn't totally suck to type on. The Surface Laptop has always been a gorgeous piece of hardware, and the Surface Laptop 4 is definitely no exception. The Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 is perfect for productivity tasks. Hopefully, Microsoft adds that configuration at a later date, we're sure there's some traveling video editor somewhere that would appreciate it. It's definitely an odd configuration, given that the workloads that would need the most RAM are the same workloads that would need the extra processor power that the Ryzen 7 4980U would bring to the table. The most powerful Surface Laptop you can get is the 15-inch model with an 11th-gen Intel Core i7 processor, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD for $2,399 (£2,399, AU$3,999). And, oddly, the higher configurations feature Intel hardware instead of AMD. You can also upgrade the rest of the laptop's hardware if you need a bit more power. Still, a bigger laptop screen is a bigger laptop screen.

It's 201 PPI on either laptop, so there's not going to be a noticeable difference either way you go. The 15-inch laptop (opens in new tab) does technically have a higher resolution, but it's the same pixel density.

Ports: 1 x USB-C, 1 x USB-A, combi audio jack, Surface ConnectĬonnectivity: Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax, Bluetooth 5.0 Here is the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 configuration sent to TechRadar for review:ĬPU: Intel Core i7-1185G7 (12MB cache, up to 4.8GHz boost)

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