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Tues. 04/13 - New Surface Laptop 4

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Everyone announced something today. A new Surface Laptop 4. New Nvidia 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. Sponsors: LinkedIn.com/ride Fundrise.com/techmeme Links: Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processors (The Verge) Siri Reveals Apple Event Planned for Tuesday, April 20 (Mac Rumors) Facebook Announces Oculus Gaming Showcase For April 21 (Upload) Nvidia unveils rental model for DGX Station A100 mini supercomputers (Venture Beat) Roku’s latest streaming device gives 4K, HDR, and a voice remote for $40 (Ars Technica) Spotify’s Car Thing debuts as a limited release for selected US users (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:09.7

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

0:17.0

something new from Spotify literally called, Car Thing.

0:20.0

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

0:27.0

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

0:32.0

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

0:36.5

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

0:45.0

interesting bit you can also choose either a model with an

0:49.0

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

0:56.8

the verge.

0:57.8

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

1:14.4

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

1:18.6

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

1:28.0

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

1:34.4

reviews to judge how Microsoft choices have landed. These processor

1:38.9

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

1:46.3

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

1:54.0

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

1:57.0

The Intel powered 13 and a half inch

1:59.0

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

2:02.0

while the larger 15 inch

2:04.0

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

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