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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’s got one big difference from the Surface Laptop 6 for Business announced in March — it’s equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chip instead of Intel’s Core Ultra, leveling the playing field, the company hopes, with Apple’s powerful and efficient MacBook laptops.
The Surface Laptop comes in several configurations, starting with a base 16GB of RAM (please take notes, Apple) and 256GB of SSD storage with the Snapdragon X Plus chip, but storage can be bumped up to a 1TB SSD and 32GB of RAM (though 64GB is available as a preorder exclusive, for now) on both the 13.8-inch and 15- inch versions with the Elite chip.
Depending on which size you buy, the laptop has either a 2304 x 1536 (13.8-inch) or 2496 x 1664 (15-inch), 120Hz variable refresh touchscreen display with Dolby Vision IQ support.
The company says the new Surface Laptop is “80 percent faster than our previous generation” and offers “up to 22 hours of local video playback.” It’s got a haptic touchpad, just as Apple’s MacBooks have had for years, and unlike the MacBook Air, Microsoft said it will support three 4K monitors — on top of the laptop’s own display.
Microsoft calls the new Laptop a “Copilot Plus PC” thanks to a neural processing unit that will power Windows 11 AI features like Recall, an on-device feature that lets users search for information from places like apps, documents, and folders using Copilot.
Whether these computers can match or outdo Apple’s custom silicon remains to be seen, but at least when it comes to battery life, they should fare better than their Intel Core Ultra siblings.
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