They have to release a new model for a few reasons. If you are set on a Surface then it would make sense for you to wait. Just keep watching sale prices on Bestbuy and you will at least be able to find it for $899. The lenovo also has a four speaker sound system which is really nice.

My Lenovo has a single core score around 1650 and multi core score around 8900. Just to give an example the Ryzen 5 had a single core geek bench 5 score of around 1000 and multi core around 5500. It performs much faster at just about any task as my old surface. It has a blue finish which I really like and an all aluminum build just as nice as the Surface. I was able to find a crazy sale on Bestbuy for the 14' 7i with a 2k touch screen, intel i7 1255u, 512gb pci-4 ssd, and 16gb ddr5 ram. In fact, I sold my Surface Laptop 4 with Ryzen 5 and 8g ram with a 128gb ssd for around $550.

They don't have the lack of bloatware that MS Surface has but they have much better hardware. Have you checked out the Lenovo Yoga 7i series latest gen. They are expensive and no one would buy one with the internals for the cost.

The design on the Laptop 4 is very outdated. I would NOT buy a Surface Laptop 4 for several reasons.

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