While the 13.5-inch is more reflective of many of the best 13-inch laptops available, there are very few thin and light 15-inch laptops. Specs-wise, Surface Laptop 4 falls into the traditional Ultrabook category – thin and light computing.

AMD models now have Wi-Fi 6 and LPDDR4x.Same $999 starting price (AMD Ryzen 5, 256GB, 8GB).15-inch models are only Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7.Battery jumps from 11.5 hours to 17 to 19 hours.Commercial availability of AMD and Intel models.Consumer availability of AMD and Intel models.Ice Blue with Alcantara (13.5-inch Intel only).Up to 32GB of RAM and 1TB storage (Intel only).AMD Ryzen 4000 and Radeon Graphics Surface Edition.Intel 11th Gen Core processors with Iris Xe Graphics.Nonetheless, there are plenty of smaller changes, including processors, configuration options, pricing, and software that do add up to a substantial refresh over its predecessors:

Surface Laptop 4 looks a lot like all previous models because Microsoft has not modified the core design since version one. Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central)

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