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Microsoft’s latest Surface Pro Copilot+ PC has landed in the conversation as both a hardware statement and a pricing headline this week, with deal write-ups claiming the 13-inch OLED Snapdragon X Elite model (16 GB RAM / 256 GB SSD) has been discounted to roughly $899 during Amazon’s Prime Big...

Microsoft's Surface Pro 11 still feels like the most sensible Swiss Army knife in Microsoft's hardware shed: a powerful tablet that will happily masquerade as a laptop when you need it, and an excellent drawing surface when you want it. The flagship 13-inch model—available with Qualcomm's...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 announcement isn’t a modest refresh — it’s a full-throttle attempt to reposition Arm-based Windows PCs as contenders in the premium laptop and creator workstation markets, with jaw-dropping headline numbers (up to 18 cores, a record 5.0 GHz boost, an 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU...

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 12-inch has arrived in India as a compact, Copilot+‑capable 2‑in‑1 and—for a limited time—comes with a free Surface Pro Keyboard when pre‑ordered, positioning Microsoft squarely in the premium tablet market ahead of the festive buying season. Overview Microsoft has opened...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite promise to rewrite the rules for Windows laptops by delivering a dramatic mix of raw single‑thread speed, expanded multi‑core throughput, and a leap in on‑device AI that aims to make Copilot+ and other agentic workflows truly local...

Qualcomm’s claim that the Snapdragon X2 Elite family delivers “the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows” is ambitious—and the company backed it with numbers that, on paper, reshape the argument for Windows on Arm: a 3 nm‑class process node, up to 18 CPU cores in top bins, a...

Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Elite family promises to rewrite the rules for Windows on ARM by delivering dramatically higher clock speeds, an 18‑core top bin, and an 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU — claims that put Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme squarely into contention with Apple’s...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme doesn’t just promise a step forward for Windows on ARM — it promises a potential leap that could finally make a high‑end Windows laptop a credible, everyday alternative to Apple’s M‑series machines for creators, data scientists, and power users. The...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite family arrived swinging: the company revealed two next‑generation Arm PC chips — the Snapdragon X2 Elite and the flagship Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme — promising significantly higher single‑thread clocks, a much larger core count option, a beefed‑up Adreno GPU, and...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 family promises to reshape the premium Windows laptop market by pushing ARM-based silicon into territory long dominated by Apple’s M-series and high-end x86 chips — and on paper the company’s flagship, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, looks built to do exactly that...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 family — led by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and the slightly scaled X2 Elite — marks a deliberate, high-stakes push to make Windows-on-ARM a first-choice platform for premium laptops, creators, and enterprise Copilot+ devices by combining higher single‑thread...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 family — and especially the flagship Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme — marks the most aggressive push yet by an ARM vendor into the premium Windows laptop market, promising a combination of blistering peak clocks, a vastly larger on‑device NPU, and memory and GPU...

Microsoft’s latest push to move Windows 10 users onto new Copilot+ PCs has a fresh twist: Arm silicon is front and center. The company’s messaging now leans heavily into claims that the Arm ecosystem is mature — most apps people use today run natively on Arm — and positions Arm-powered Copilot+...

Microsoft is pouring megabucks and marketing muscle into a narrative that Copilot+ PCs — Windows machines with on-device neural engines and specially tuned Windows subsystems — will remake personal and enterprise computing. The message is clear: these machines are faster than Macs, sip far less...

Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs has moved from product launch to full‑throttle migration messaging as Windows 10 approaches its October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline, with Redmond now framing Arm‑based, NPU‑equipped laptops as the recommended path for consumers and organizations that want...

The Arm app ecosystem for Copilot+ PCs is no longer a niche experiment — it is now a mainstream platform strategy backed by Microsoft’s App Assure and Arm Advisory Service, hardware partners shipping NPUs capable of more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), and a growing catalogue of...

Microsoft’s latest push to make Windows on Arm not just possible but practical has given Redmond a concrete, timed reason for users and IT teams to move off Windows 10: the combination of Windows 10’s scheduled end of support and major Windows 11 on Arm improvements (notably the Prism emulator...

Microsoft’s claim that Arm-based Windows PCs now see most user minutes spent inside natively compiled apps marks a pivotal moment for the platform — a transition from compatibility-first survival to native-first performance and efficiency. Microsoft executives point to a figure that will shape...

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...

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...