Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Specifications The laptop has USB-A, Thunderbolt 4/USB 4, a headphones socket and Surface Connect port, fully charging in just under two hours with the included 65W power adaptor. That’s still far behind the 16 hours offered by the best in class. The battery lasts about the same as its predecessor, for about an eight-hour work day with fairly light usage on the Core i7 as tested and likely about an hour longer for the Core i5. It runs without audible fan noise if not playing games or performing other intensive tasks, too, which is very welcome. It won’t win any awards but it is plenty quick enough for general usage, managing light and medium duties with aplomb, including complex manipulation of large images in Affinity Photo 2. The Laptop 5 is a good performer in power terms. This offers a much faster and more capable connection to docking stations and other peripherals. But they also bring with them a Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 port for the first time in a Surface Laptop. It says the new chips offer up to 50% speed increases for some tasks. Inside the machine, Microsoft has reduced its chip options from last year to only Intel’s latest 12th generation Core i5 and i7 processors. It’s a similar story for the 720p webcam, which is still fine but has not progressed with the competition, which typically operate at 1080p. The screen is still crisp and good-looking – great for working at home or an office – but only has a maximum brightness of 400 nits (compared with 500nits) on rivals and isn’t as smooth as the Surface Pro 9 tablet, among others. than it does in Europe.The keyboard is still one of the best on a laptop but others have caught up or surpassed it. It’s also worth noting that Microsoft typically sells a wider variety of configurations in the U.S. Why not a Ryzen 5000 with the “Zen 3” (7-nanometer process) architecture? “ does raise a few questions.The exact reasons for this are still anyone's guess at this point,” writes Notebookcheck.Īnd, as Notebookcheck points out, it’s always possible that a Surface Laptop 4 with Ryzen 5000 silicon simply didn’t appear in these European leaks and could be coming in the U.S. The current Surface Laptop 3 comes with AMD Ryzen 3000 series (announced in 2019) and Radeon Vega Graphics, while the Intel versions sport older Ice Lake processors (also a 2019 release). HP, Dell, Lenovo et al have been using Tiger Lake for months and AMD has already announced its Ryzen 5000. Microsoft is rarely at the cutting edge of processor adoption for the Surface Laptop. AMD Ryzen 7 3780U with Radeon RX Vega 11 Graphics (15-inch).AMD Ryzen 5 3580U with Radeon Vega 9 Graphics (15-inch).
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