It’s a Surface Laptop, and you know what you are going to be getting here. Looking at the rest of the laptop is delightfully straightforward. That’s the Ryzen inclusion and its contribution to performance and price taken care of. Competing laptops are already available with the Ryzen 5000 series processors, but I don’t think that the Ryzen Surface Laptop 4 is being particularly marketed as the ‘power’ alternative, As I said it's being marketed as the entry-level machine that can still deliver the power and performance when needed. It’s also worth noting that this is not the latest Ryzen processor. This does contribute an extra boost to the longer battery life, but its worth noting. On the other side of the argument, the Surface Laptop 4 turns down the CPU performance when it switches to battery power, which helps get that extra battery life but do remember to turn the wick back up when you need some grunt. The biggest difference is of course the component price and how that allows for a more affordable machine. In terms of processing the Ryzen offers more multi-core performance over the Core equipped versions (although Intel is the single core champion). Putting aside the mismatched specs, why would you choose AMD over Intel? The Ryzen chips have better power efficiency, and tests between the two Laptop 4 models show that to be the case - with the AMD variant picking up at least an hour or more of extra running in general use cases.

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