When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. Last I checked, my review unit is out of stock from the Microsoft Store, but it's also available from Shopee and Lazada.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. But it's still worth a look if you appreciate its clean aesthetics. The Surface Connect port should go, while its older AMD chip puts a ceiling on its performance against other recent AMD-powered notebooks. However, Microsoft could do better at keeping up with the times. There's also no bloatware like preloaded shopping apps or games. It is definitely more expensive than the average Windows notebook, but you're getting a premium user experience. My review unit is priced at around $2,400, which is similar to its 2019 predecessor. But things could have been better - the Surface Laptop 4 uses an older Ryzen 4000 Series chip instead of the latest Ryzen 5000 Series.ĭespite its 15-inch screen, the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 lasted a good 9hr in a video playback battery test. Its PCMark 10 score of 4,883 is around the same as an Intel Evo ultrabook like the HP Spectre x360 14 (4,720). As mentioned earlier, the Surface Laptop 4 is much faster than before, thanks to an AMD Ryzen 7 processor that has eight cores, up from the four cores in the previous iteration. But I think users would benefit more from a more universal port like Thunderbolt 4 or even a second USB-C, instead of the proprietary Surface Connect. The latter can also connect to Microsoft's accessories like the Surface Dock. There's a single USB-C, one USB Type-A, an audio jack and Microsoft's Surface Connect port (for charging). The Surface Laptop 4 has the same few ports as its predecessor. There's only the proprietary Surface Connect port on the right side, which seems like a wasted opportunity to add more ports. The touchpad is not as large as the ones on Apple MacBooks, but it is big enough for multi-touch gestures, and is very smooth. There's no Alcantara option for my 15-inch review set, but the metal palm rest and keyboard remained cool throughout. If you get the 13.5-inch model, you can choose between the softer Alcantara fabric palm rest and a metal palm rest.
But unlike many of its PC competitors, there's no camera shutter for privacy. It is plenty bright and crisp, and supports the Surface Pen stylus (from S$148) There's also a decent 720p HD Web camera that supports Windows Hello facial recognition. The touch display is in the more squarish 3:2 aspect ratio that is better for productivity tasks.
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