One of AMD’s historical claims to fame is the strength of its integrated GPUs. It’s also made the bold claim that its Ice Lake graphics are as good as AMD’s own. (The other, Comet Lake, trades off its older “Whiskey Lake” architecture for faster clock speeds.) Intel’s said quite a bit about the Ice Lake architecture as well as its new AI capabilities. Intel’s Ice Lake, meanwhile, is the code name for one of the new 10th-gen, 10nm Core families that Intel introduced earlier this year. They’ll arrive in the mobile space in 2020. This is significant, because it’s AMD’s 7nm, Zen 2 chips that are dominating on the desktop. What exactly is a Microsoft Ryzen Surface Edition? We’ve dedicated an entire article to explain the Surface Edition chip, but here’s the short answer: It’s a semi-custom quad-core chip with eight threads, but based on the older AMD Zen+ architecture and 12nm process. Price: Orders start at at $1,099 at $1,599 as testedĪnd in this corner: Microsoft’ Surface Laptop 3 for Business, featuring Intel’s mobile Core i7 (Ice Lake).

Weight: 3.36 pounds (tested), with charger: 4 pounds.

Processor: Quad-core Core i7-1065G7 (Ice Lake).

Surface Laptop 3 for Business (Core i7, 15-inch) basic specs In this corner: Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 (Ryzen 7). Price: Orders start at $999 at Remove non-product link. Weight: 3.4 pounds (tested), with charger: 4 pounds.Battery: 46.9Wh (tested), 45.8Wh (rated) quick-charges up to 80 percent in 1 hour.Camera: 720p (user-facing) Windows Hello enabled.Ports: USB-C, USB-A, Surface Connect, 3.5mm jack.

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