Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, April 13th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Everyone announced something today, a new Surface Laptop 4, new Invidia Things, new Roku Things,

something new from Spotify literally called, Car Thing.

Oculus is going to hold a product event, Siri leaked the next Apple event, and Grab is going public via a SPAC.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Today was a lot. Things just kept coming and coming. So let's start with

Microsoft unveiling a new Surface Laptop 4 with 3.5 inch and 15 inch displays but here's the

interesting bit you can also choose either a model with an

AMD chip inside or one with an Intel chip inside and the AMD one is significantly cheaper, quoting

the verge.

Microsoft is shipping its Surface Laptop 4 on April 15th in the U.S. Canada and Japan starting at $999. for the price gap between the pair. The difference in pricing likely comes down to the fact

that Microsoft isn't using AMD's latest 5,000 series

CPUs here. Instead Microsoft is using AMD's Zen 2-based chips for its AMD-Rison Surface Edition processors.

Despite this performance between the Intel and AMD versions could be rather similar, but we'll have to wait for full

reviews to judge how Microsoft choices have landed. These processor

improvements allow Microsoft to promise up to 70% more performance over the Surface Laptop 3 and some on paper at least

battery life gains. Microsoft is promising up to 19 hours of

battery life on the 13.5 inch AMD model and up to 17 and a half hours on the 15 inch version.

The Intel powered 13 and a half inch

Surface Laptop 4 is rated up to 17 hours of battery life

while the larger 15 inch

model hits 16 and a half hours. Both of the Intel versions will also ship

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