Microsoft's Surface Laptop 13-inch has just crossed the threshold from "interesting" to "irresistible" thanks to a steep Black Friday discount that slashes its street price to roughly $549 for the 16GB / 256GB configuration, turning a midrange-but-pricey Copilot+ PC into one of the most...
Microsoft’s pitch that the Surface family includes “the best lightweight laptops for travel” is concise and appealing: the Surface Pro promises tablet‑first flexibility with detachable typing and pen input, while the Surface Laptop offers a classic clamshell experience in an ultra‑portable...
Microsoft’s latest Surface clearance — the short-lived Amazon discount on the 2024 Surface Laptop that Gizmodo flagged — is more than a one-day bargain; it’s a useful lens on where Windows hardware stands right now: premium design, aggressive AI marketing under the Copilot+ banner, and a new...
Microsoft has quietly pushed a firmware-and-driver refresh to its Snapdragon‑powered Copilot+ Surface SKUs, resolving a high‑impact camera regression that left some Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 owners unable to stream or record video when Windows Studio Effects were enabled.
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Microsoft has quietly rolled a firmware and driver refresh for Snapdragon‑powered Surface models that addresses a high‑impact camera regression: users who could not stream or record video when Windows Studio Effects were enabled on Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 should now see that...
Microsoft’s new 13-inch Surface Laptop tries to boil the Surface formula down to its essentials: an ultra-light, attractively finished clamshell powered by Qualcomm’s Arm silicon, long battery life, and a thin, bright PixelSense touchscreen — all tuned to showcase Microsoft’s Copilot+ on-device...
Microsoft Taiwan will formally introduce the Surface Laptop to the local market in early August, bringing Microsoft’s first “true” clamshell Surface notebook to Taiwan with Windows 10 S preinstalled, a tiered SKU lineup starting in the low-to-mid NT$30,000 range, an introductory free upgrade...
Microsoft’s timing is deliberate: with Windows 10’s end-of-support deadline looming, Redmond is using the upgrade window to reposition Copilot+ PCs — and in particular Arm-powered machines such as the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 — as not just optional refresh buys but a strategic...
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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 arrives as a tidy, well-engineered Copilot+ laptop that clearly hits the brief for battery life, build quality, and on-device AI acceleration — yet the real-world experience described by some owners and reviewers exposes a stubborn seam between polished hardware and...
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Mashable’s recent roundup of the best Windows laptops for 2025 puts a stake in the ground: Windows machines are no longer playing catch‑up with Apple — in several key areas they’re leading the conversation on battery life, repairability, and flexible performance. The piece highlights seven...
The Surface Laptop 7 isn’t just Microsoft’s best Copilot+ PC to date — it is a clear, pragmatic challenge to Apple’s dominance in the thin-and-light space, delivering blistering multi-core performance, class-leading battery life under specific tests, and a premium aluminum build that finally...
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The Surface Laptop Studio 2 is Microsoft’s most aggressively positioned laptop in years: a heavy-duty, convertible Windows workstation built around 13th‑Gen Intel H‑series silicon, up to NVIDIA RTX 40‑series graphics and a dedicated Intel Movidius NPU — and Microsoft even used an on‑stage...
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Microsoft pushed a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) update for select Snapdragon X–powered Surface devices that, in some cases, has removed the user-accessible Battery Limit toggle and left machines unable to charge beyond roughly 50 percent—effectively halving usable battery...
Microsoft’s Windows 10 S and the accompanying Surface Laptop were less a surprise and more a strategic recalibration: a deliberately simplified, cloud-first Windows SKU paired with a premium clamshell that wore Microsoft’s design language like a banner. Announced as a classroom-friendly...
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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop arrives as a surprisingly traditional clamshell in a product family built on experimentation—and that choice will matter as much for Windows users as it will for Microsoft’s long-term hardware partners.
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Microsoft’s latest education-focused Surface rumors have resurfaced in full color: leaked images and tipster posts claim a clamshell “Surface CloudBook” in four finishes — Platinum, Burgundy, Cobalt Blue, and Graphite Gold — with an Alcantara-covered keyboard and a cloud-optimized Windows SKU...
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 11 — a device praised for its exceptional standby and all‑day battery endurance — is suddenly being hamstrung for some owners: a firmware/UEFI interaction is capping affected units at roughly 50% state of charge, and in many cases the usual UEFI toggle to disable that cap...
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Microsoft has quietly pushed a firmware update that brings a long-requested — and long-needed — battery charging control to the Snapdragon-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop (7th Edition), adding a user-friendly 80% charge cap and a temporary 100% override inside the Surface app while...
Microsoft has quietly expanded its Surface firmware this week to give Snapdragon-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 owners the same on-device battery charge-limit controls that Intel-based models and the newer Surface Pro 12‑inch and Surface Laptop 13‑inch already received — meaning you...
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Microsoft has quietly set an expiration date for Windows 11 SE — the slimmed-down, education-focused edition of Windows — announcing that the OS will receive no further feature updates or security patches after October 2026. Background / Overview
Windows 11 SE was launched in 2021 as Microsoft’s...
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