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The Surface Laptop 5 arrives with Thunderbolt 4 but no AMD options
The Surface Laptop 5 now comes with Thunderbolt 4. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge
Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Laptop lineup today with new Surface Laptop 5 models. While the company has offered AMD and Intel chip options for the Surface in the past, this year’s models are pure Intel with the addition of Thunderbolt 4 support.
Microsoft hasn’t fully explained why it’s dropped AMD from its Surface Laptop lineup, though. “We focused on shipping Intel 12th Gen,” says Pete Kyriacou, vice president of program management at Microsoft. “We’re great partners with AMD, we continue to work with them on longer term projects but for Laptop 5 we don’t have AMD models.”
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The new Sage color option (right).
As with last year’s Surface Laptop 4 lineup, Microsoft will...