From PC World: The Microsoft Surface premium: for years, laptop buyers have criticized Microsoft for charging more and delivering less. Now Microsoft is preparing to ship the Surface Laptop 8 as well as the Surface Pro 12 with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors inside. Will anything change?
No. And yes. Microsoft is not chasing cheaper laptops with these models. It is using Surface to push premium Windows-on-Arm hardware.
Microsoft is launching and shipping the 13-inch Surface Pro 12 at $1,499 on up, versus the $999 and up price Microsoft launched what it called the Surface Pro 11th Edition in 2024. It will also charge $1,599 and up for the 13.8-inch and 15-inch configurations of the Surface Laptop 8, shipping today, versus $999 for the Surface Laptop 7. (Officially, Microsoft is just calling these new models the Surface Laptop and the Surface Pro, which means that you might see them referred to as the Surface Laptop (2026) or the Surface Pro (2026), too.)
Still, Microsoft is hinting that there’s a plan in place to address lower-cost competitors like the Apple MacBook Neo…just not now.
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