


Its big sibling packs a Ryzen 7 with its base configuration, also upgradable to Core i5 or Core i7. The smaller version comes with AMD Ryzen 5 (including integreated Radeon graphics) as standard on the cheapest £799 option, with the option to upgrade to Core i5 or Core 7 (with integreated Iris Xe graphics).

The Surface Laptop 4, on the other hand, offers a variety of configurations depending on whether you opt for the 13.5-inch or 15-inch model. On-board storage options start at 256GB and go up to 2TB for the truly file hungry, while you’ll get 16GB of RAM as standard (and can boost this to 32GB for an added cost). Its standard configuration features an 11th-gen quad-core Intel H35 i5 processor (up to 4.4GHz) paired with integrated Iris Xe graphics, with the option to upgrade to a Core i7 CPU that supports a discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU. Given it’s designed for performance intensive creative apps, it should come as little surprise that the Surface Laptop Studio is the more powerful of the two machines. The Laptop Studio is a pretty clear winner here, especially if you like to game alongside your work or plan to use your next notebook to regularly consume media.

The Laptop 4 offers more choice in that it can be had in either 13.5-inch or 15-inch versions, but with a more standard refresh rate of just 60Hz, whatever’s being beamed from its QHD display won’t be anywhere near as slick as it would on the Laptop Studio, which also supports Dolby Vision for good measure. The Surface Laptop Studio comes in a single 14.4-inch model, with its QHD display (2560 x 1440 pixels, or 201ppi) superior to the Surface Laptop 4’s by virtue of its 120Hz refresh rate. The Surface Laptop Studio can be used in three different modes Display
