hi everyone Abby here and welcome back to tech tuesday today i'm going to be comparing the
microsoft surface laptop 4 to the microsoft surface laptop 3. but before i get started
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a lot of comparisons and differences between these two laptops so in case there's something
specific that you do want to know i've gone ahead and listed all the major points i'm discussing in
the description so you can go ahead and like jump to that spot if you want to see something
in particular i know a lot of you out there are deciding which one you want to get you might be
deciding should i get the service laptop three should i get the surface laptop for
is it worth upgrading if i already have the service laptop three to the surface laptop for
so i'm going to give you guys my rundown and let you know my opinion on if i think
it's worth the upgrade and which one i would recommend to someone who doesn't have either
of these units and is looking for a great laptop okay so to get started the first
thing i want to show you guys is the turn on speed so i'm going to turn them both on at the
same time and then we're going to see which one powers up first so starting off here i do want
to say that this one has a lot more resistance when you do open it versus the surface laptop
three that's just something i noticed when you know i started using it three two one
so surprisingly the surface laptop 3 did turn on before the surface laptop 4 guys
it turned on actually quite a bit faster a couple seconds there it's definitely noticeable
the difference is here on the inside guys so the main difference is being the battery life and the
processor so the surface laptop three does have a quad core 10th generation intel i5 processor and
the surface laptop for the version that i got does have amd ryzen 5 surface edition processor so the
processors are definitely a difference here and in terms of performance kind of speed wise how well
they run i am not really finding a difference i think both processors work equally well at um you
know running the surface laptop so they both have 256 gigabytes of storage and eight gigabytes of go
ram all right guys so when it comes to the design of these units they look the exact same from the
outside i mean you'd be hard-pressed to figure out which is which if someone didn't tell you because
the service laptop ford and the surface laptop 3 came out in like the same color options they look
the exact same same ports like it'd be really hard to know i'm not a huge fan that they didn't really
change anything much they even have the exact same ports same venting and i wish that they could have
added an extra usbc or gave us something additional because this is supposed to be
the newer model and everything the surface laptop 4 here is quoted to have a battery life of up to
19 hours for the specific model this is the one with the amd ryzen processor specially made from
microsoft and this model here does have the best battery life out of all of the surface
for laptops that are released and this one right here has a quoted battery life of 11.5 hours
this one does have the 10th generation intel i5 processor so with my general uses which are you
know going on youtube using microsoft office suite going on netflix different streaming platforms
writing emails stuff like that i am finding that the battery lifes are not as good as quoted i am
getting on the surface laptop for 16.5 hours and on the surface laptop three after having this for
about a year i'm getting on average about seven and a half hours of battery life with my uses
so the battery life here is definitely way better than the surface laptop three
it excels it's basically almost double what this offers so that is excellent here all right guys so
i just wanted to quickly tell you guys about the weights because that's also a difference
they're both 13.5 inch surface laptops so the surface laptop 4 that i do have
weighs 2.79 pounds or 1265 grams while the surface laptop three i have is a little bit heavier
so here we have it at two point eight four pounds or one two eight eight grams so the difference
there is minimal um it's not super noticeable but i do wanna let you know that this one is a little
bit heavier guys so one great thing about both of these units is that they are very portable they're
easy to carry around they are both lightweight um there's a slight difference between them as i did
tell you but it's just so minut you don't really even notice it when you are holding them so i love
that you can just carry it around you could stick it in your backpack in a purse you can just walk
around with it it's comfortable and lightweight enough to do that and now i'm just going to
show you guys the volume so just going to play a video i'm going to start it kind of low and go up
hi everyone abby here and welcome back to tech tuesday so we can hear that's pretty loud and i'm
gonna do the same thing over here hi everyone abby here and welcome back to tech tuesday
all right guys so as you can hear the volume is just about the exact same i don't really notice
much of a difference they're both kind of clear and loud once you do get really high and it's
also nice when you're low so now i'm just going to show you guys the differences in brightness
right now i'm going to turn this one all the way down and turn this one all the way down when all
the way down you could hardly even see the screen on both of these so now i'm going to turn it up
when it comes to the brightness the surface laptop 3 is brighter than the service laptop for
this one's actually brighter guys i'm actually surprised about that i'm not sure if you can kind
of see that on screen but this is noticeably brighter than that so the keyboards here are
phenomenal that's something that i really love about this surface are microsoft in general
they make excellent keyboards like if you're talking about the surface pro or surface go
um lines they they're phenomenal as well they're just a little smaller when you are typing it's
very kind of quiet i love that it's not like super clicky but it has a nice push
when you are typing guys and one thing i do want to say about this keyboard is the alcantara fabric
is so plush and luxurious you just can't help yourself but like touching it alright guys so i
just wanted to talk about the alcantara fabric a little bit more so here i have my type cover for
my surface pro 4. this is the oldest kind of surface product i have still in my collection
and as you can see alcantara does kind of absorb the oil from your palms and it's really hard
to get off even though i do wash this regularly it's still there so just a caution for if you're
getting alcantara you're probably going to end up with you know a result like this over time
it doesn't impact any functionality here the surface type cover still works phenomenally
it doesn't really bother me but some people that might bother you so i just want to point
that out for you guys if you are considering the alcantara fabric and one thing i do want to point
out is this is always cold guys it's metal this is just like a nice room temperature and it's warmer
um physically to the touch when you are typing so that's something to know as well all right
guys so now i'm going to go ahead and show you the backlit keyboard on both keyboards
i'm going to go ahead and turn off the light so you guys can see what it would
look like if you're using your laptop in the dark so the lowest setting then we're going up
up one more and off so they just both have three different settings for
the brightness on the backlit keyboards and for the keyboards if you don't you touch them for a
couple seconds they turn off but when you're ready to use it again all you have to do is move like
the keypads or type anywhere and as you can see i haven't been touching them they do stay on for
quite some time but it does time out and then you gotta kind of use it to make it work again
and they did turn off so and there we go so i'm just gonna show you the camera on them
they both do have a 720p front-facing camera all right guys so i've gone ahead and turned
on the camera on both of these and we can see they're kind of picking up a little bit
of differences in color like this is appearing more blue than this and i have this right here
and i think the color is kind of pretty accurate more accurate on this actually on the surface
laptop four so if you guys are using this for zoom calls video conferences anything like that
you'll definitely be fine and people will be able to see you clearly and here you clearly
as well because the mics are pretty good okay guys so i'm just gonna record like a couple
seconds of me talking so you guys can compare the video sound and the audio when it is recorded
one two three four five six seven eight we are testing the audio here and the video
alright so let's start off with the surface laptop three two three four five six seven eight we are
testing the audio here and the video and now let's go ahead and get to the surface laptop 4
and here and see what that sounds like 7 8 we are testing the audio here and the video
they both did a great job they both had kind of clear audio they sounded very similar and the
video is also basically the exact same both 720p so one major difference is when i purchased this
it was a higher price initially on the release date than this was which i'm very surprised about
that and i like that microsoft actually kind of reduced the price because i actually ended
up spending 100 less getting this unit than i did purchasing this because if you look at the
prices right now this one's actually cheaper right now the surface laptop four i know that's super
surprising i mean i was surprised to see that as well when i did go to purchase this if you don't
have one already and you're deciding between these two i would definitely go for the service laptop
for so you can get that better battery life there but if you already have a service laptop three
and you're considering hey should i upgrade to the service laptop for my opinion is no you definitely
don't need to upgrade guys this one has everything that you need yes there's better battery life
that is a huge difference for some people but for me right now you know i'm staying at home
i'm always near outlet so when the battery does die it's not a big deal for me to plug it in but
if you're someone who is on the go and you do need that like extra battery life you know up
to 19 hours then you might want to consider going for the service laptop for that's all i have for
you guys today if you do have any questions make sure to drop them in the comments below and i'll
check them out thanks for watching guys and make sure to like comment and subscribe bye