Microsoft Surface Laptop 4
For Gaming:
Ultrabooks are notorious for their poor cooling, slow display refresh rates and response times, and, most crucially, poor performance.
The Surface Laptop improves the display, performance, and cooling to a surprising degree, but any Gaming Laptop will blast it out of the water in all of those areas, with entry-level, 700$ Gaming Laptops with Ryzen 5 4600H capable of outperforming the base Ryzen 5 4680U model.
However, if you want to mix in some gaming with your regular work, this is a great option, in my opinion. After the Asus ZenBook and some configurations of the HP Envy, this is probably the 2nd/3rd best Ultrabook for gaming at the present.
The ZenBook and Envy are only ahead based on their 1080p screens and “newer” Ryzen CPUs, in my opinion.
For Video Editing:
However, if you do this frequently, it may not be the greatest option. Video editing uses a lot of CPU power and takes up a lot of disc space. Both of those qualities are in scant supply on the Surface Laptop; even the higher-specced (and more expensive) models will not be the greatest choice for this; they’ll suffice.
If you truly want one of these, I’d recommend getting a 15″ with a Ryzen 7 processor—it’s the greatest CPU you’ll find (and it’s also less than the Intel version). You should get a computer with at least 512 GB of storage and 16 GB of RAM.
However, that isn’t the ideal option for doing this on a regular basis. At that configuration, it’s also a $1700 system, which is less than half the price of a workstation or gaming machine that renders films in half the time. The key benefit of Surface tablets is their small size and portability.