If the most recent report about the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 is accurate, then new designs and a chipset upgrade may finally be included. Microsoft is reportedly giving both machines a chassis makeover along with much-needed specifications increases with these upgrades. Given that Qualcomm recently unveiled the Snapdragon X Elite, it is easy to assume that the software behemoth will use this silicon to power at least one of these models.
Microsoft is allegedly marketing the upcoming Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, which will go on sale in the spring, as real next-generation AI PCs
According to Windows Central, Intel’s most recent 14th-generation CPUs will also be used for the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, in addition to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite. This gives customers more options if they would prefer to use an ARM chipset or take advantage of Intel’s Arrow Lake lineup. The Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which can help optimize specific settings, like enhancing power draw or battery life, depending on the work done on one of these, will be shared by both models, according to the report.
Inside, the Surface computers running Qualcomm’s chipsets are referred to as “CADMUS” and are intended to run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows version, code-named Hudson Valley. Microsoft seems to have taken a completely different turn after Panos Panay left the company. This is a good thing because the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 can now rival Apple’s lineup of portable Mac computers as well as those that come with 14th-generation Intel processors. Microsoft may reveal a new iteration of the Surface Laptop Go the following year, but the company has no other hardware updates planned for 2024.
A new Surface Laptop Studio is in the works for 2025, but 2024 will reveal how committed the software giant is to producing hardware. There needed to be a lot of changes because of how expensive its current-generation Surface range has been and how little it differs from the competitors. If Microsoft doesn’t market the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 competitively, it will be another missed opportunity and companies like Apple will gain the upper hand once more.
