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Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus
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The Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch both have better battery life and performance, but higher price tags.
The Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch both have better battery life and performance, but higher price tags.
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Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware features from last year, with faster and more capable chips inside and higher price tags (thanks RAMageddon!).
While the 12-inch Surface Pro started at $799.99 last year, it’s debuting on October 13th at a starting price of $1,149.99. Likewise, the 13-inch Surface Laptop was originally priced at $899.99, but it’s up to $1,199.99 this time around. There’s no base 8GB model this time, causing some of the price increase, as both devices launch with a minimum of 16GB of RAM and can be configured up to 24GB.
Pricing aside, Microsoft is promising that the six-core Snapdragon X2 Plus chips will deliver up to 18 percent more efficient battery performance, more than 60 percent faster graphics performance, and up to 95 percent faster local AI inferencing on the built-in NPU.