Microsoft unveils new Surface laptops, AI-powered Windows Copilot

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At an event mainly intended to promote an artificial intelligence tool into the next Windows 11 update, Microsoft has refreshed its Surface laptop lineup with a spec bump and a new Intel Neural Processing Unit.

Microsoft revealed new products at its September event

The company unveiled various new hardware and software offerings at its Thursday fall event. Alongside an update for Windows 11, Microsoft is also releasing new laptops for casual and professional users.

Windows Copilot

Microsoft plans to incorporate a Copilot AI assistant into Windows 11. Similar to the Copilot sidebars already present in Edge, Office applications, and GitHub, this new Windows Copilot feature will be seamlessly integrated into Windows 11. Users can access it from the taskbar and use it across all apps.

According to Microsoft, Windows Copilot will serve as a "personal assistant" and won't replace the existing search bar on the Windows 11 taskbar. Instead, it will have a separate Copilot button next to the search bar, similar to how Cortana, the company's former digital assistant, had its designated area on the Windows 10 taskbar.

Windows Copilot

is built on the same underlying technology as Bing Chat, and Microsoft is enabling developers to adapt plug-ins designed initially for Bing or OpenAI's ChatGPT for use with its AI assistant. That allows Windows Copilot to benefit from a wide range of new features being developed for ChatGPT and Bing and receive future enhancements automatically.

Microsoft will release the next Windows 11 update on September 26, including Copilot, a redesigned File Explorer, upgrades to the Paint app, and other new features.

Surface Laptop Studio 2

One of the new laptops that Microsoft has revealed is the Surface Laptop Studio 2. Starting at $1,999, the Studio 2 is equipped with Intel's 13th Generation i7 H-class chips and offers Nvidia RTX 4050 or RTX 4060 GPUs. It's also the first Windows computer to feature an Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU).

The laptop can be customized with up to 2TB of storage and 64GB of RAM. Microsoft claims it's the most powerful Surface device it has ever built.

The Studio 2 introduces significant enhancements in connectivity, featuring two USB-C ports, a USB-A port, a microSD card slot, and compatibility with the Surface Slim Pen 2. Additionally, it comes with an upgraded haptic touchpad.

Surface Laptop Go 3

Microsoft has also unveiled the Surface Laptop Go 3 for consumers, which it claims can run for up to 15 hours on a single battery charge. In terms of performance, the company says that the Surface Laptop Go 3 is 88% faster than its original version.

It operates on a 12th-generation Intel Core i5 processor with Intel Iris Xe graphics. The device can be customized with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of storage.

Additionally, the device features a 720p HD camera on the front, a power button that also serves as a fingerprint scanner, dual far-field Studio Mics, and Omnisonic speakers enhanced with Dolby Audio. For connectivity, it offers a USB-C 3.2 port for DisplayPort and quick charging, a USB-A 3.1 port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a Surface Connect port.

It also supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1, which trails behind the newest Apple devices with Bluetooth 5.3.

Starting at $799, the Surface Laptop Go 3 ships on October 3.

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M68000

We have a couple of the smaller Surface Go units at my company and they “went” LoL..  the keyboard keys are just too small to deal with, even for a good typist.   They are sitting in closet doing nothing.

Japhey

Would the name “Copilot” not suck if Apple had used it first?

macxpress

Microsoft Surfaces are some of the biggest pieces of shit you could ever buy, including the Surface Pros which are way overpriced. 

kmarei

M68000 said:

We have a couple of the smaller Surface Go units at my company and they “went” LoL..  the keyboard keys are just too small to deal with, even for a good typist.   They are sitting in closet doing nothing.

willing to give one of them a good forever home

kmarei

macxpress said:

Microsoft Surfaces are some of the biggest pieces of shit you could ever buy, including the Surface Pros which are way overpriced. 

i mean if you are  a mac user, you would say that about any windows laptop
have you ever used a surface laptop? the one piece laptop not the tablet with the attached keyboard

we have many surface laptops at work, we do both macs and windows
and never had an issue with any of surfaces
i am actually writing this on a surface laptop 3 i have had for 3 years, zero issues
i would say the only issue with them is the chargers go bad with that proprietary plug
but we also replace those damn usb-c cables for macbooks on a regular basis when people twist them around the chargers
so i would say excluding power supplies, there is zero difference in reliability

macxpress

kmarei said:

macxpress said:

Microsoft Surfaces are some of the biggest pieces of shit you could ever buy, including the Surface Pros which are way overpriced. 

i mean if you are  a mac user, you would say that about any windows laptop
have you ever used a surface laptop? the one piece laptop not the tablet with the attached keyboard

we have many surface laptops at work, we do both macs and windows
and never had an issue with any of surfaces
i am actually writing this on a surface laptop 3 i have had for 3 years, zero issues
i would say the only issue with them is the chargers go bad with that proprietary plug
but we also replace those damn usb-c cables for macbooks on a regular basis when people twist them around the chargers
so i would say excluding power supplies, there is zero difference in reliability

I can't really speak about the Surface but we had nothing but issues with our Surface Pro laptops...biggest pieces of shit ever. The Microsoft docks suck and constantly failed, the charging has issues like you mentioned, their support blows, they overheat, video card issues, the removable keyboard fails, and they don't image with SCCM worth a shit without imaging them 15 times. We stopped using them altogether. Just terrible way overpriced laptops. They're just not powerful and durable enough for our needs. 

We have both Macs and PC's as well. The only issues we ever have with our Macs is if someone physically breaks something like the screen for example which we get fixed within 24hrs onsite per our Apple Enterprise agreement. 

hydrogen

.. not even able to explain, in simple terms, what their stuff performs (or is supposed to perform) ...

blackmage4492

macxpress said:

kmarei said:

macxpress said:

Microsoft Surfaces are some of the biggest pieces of shit you could ever buy, including the Surface Pros which are way overpriced. 

i mean if you are  a mac user, you would say that about any windows laptop
have you ever used a surface laptop? the one piece laptop not the tablet with the attached keyboard

we have many surface laptops at work, we do both macs and windows
and never had an issue with any of surfaces
i am actually writing this on a surface laptop 3 i have had for 3 years, zero issues
i would say the only issue with them is the chargers go bad with that proprietary plug
but we also replace those damn usb-c cables for macbooks on a regular basis when people twist them around the chargers
so i would say excluding power supplies, there is zero difference in reliability

I can't really speak about the Surface but we had nothing but issues with our Surface Pro laptops...biggest pieces of shit ever. The Microsoft docks suck and constantly failed, the charging has issues like you mentioned, their support blows, they overheat, video card issues, the removable keyboard fails, and they don't image with SCCM worth a shit without imaging them 15 times. We stopped using them altogether. Just terrible way overpriced laptops. They're just not powerful and durable enough for our needs. 

We have both Macs and PC's as well. The only issues we ever have with our Macs is if someone physically breaks something like the screen for example which we get fixed within 24hrs onsite per our Apple Enterprise agreement. 

My Surface Pro has been going strong for several years now. Never had any issues. That said, people tend to abuse things that they don't buy themselves, i.e. company provided laptops. Given that the Surface Pro and Macbooks aren't exactly in the same category, and that the Surface is a bit more fragile due to it's form factor, I'm not surprised that you see more issues with it.

danox

macxpress said:

Microsoft Surfaces are some of the biggest pieces of shit you could ever buy, including the Surface Pros which are way overpriced. 

The Surface is a Microsoft me too product, put out by Microsoft to create the illusion of false equivalency to Apple and the same applies to the Google Pixel line of products, both companies became extremely frustrated with Apple, knocking it out of the park with hardware and software and both we’re desperate to put something out there anything.

Their frustrations, will only grow bigger in the first half of next year….