Microsoft has hit out of the park with its last versions of the Surface Laptop. Currently, with Rumors of the latest model beginning to appear, We look at what you should expect when the Surface Laptop 4 arrives later this year. There is no official confirmed date for when the new model will appear, but we can take some clues from the times that Microsoft has chosen for the last three iterations.
In the wake of the COVID-19, prices are now more uncertain than they might first appear. With the stock market in turmoil, people losing their incomes and components facing shortages due to the reduction in manufacturing.
PRICE AND SPECS
New 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 device $100 less than 13.3-inch MacBook Pro. Expensive 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 costs less than the starting 15-inch MacBook Pro at $2,399. Now, on Microsoft’s site, the Surface Laptop 3 is available at a starting price of $999 for the 13.5-inch model with an Intel Core i5 processor, a 128 GB hard drive, and 8GB of Ram. The 15-inch version also starts at $999 with an AMD Ryzen 5 3580U chip, 8GB of Ram, and a 128 GB hard drive.
None of the above prices include a Surface Pen, let alone the Surface Dial. Neither peripheral is required, though Microsoft also quietly launched the $80 Surface Arc Mouse soon after the Surface Laptop.
The rumors will go into overdrive recently when a tech insider on Twitter called @_rogame shared a leaked benchmark purportedly for a new surface Laptop. The showed the mystery device running with a new 2.7GHz Intel Tiger Lake-U processor, attaining scores in 3DBenchmark 11 of 8412 Physics and 5540 Graphics.
While not officially confirmed by the benchmark leak, there have also been rumors that the Surface Laptop 4 will also come with AMD Ryzen 4000 CPU.