The Surface Laptop Go 3 starts at $799 and arrives on October 3

Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Go 3 throughout its fall {hardware} (and AI) occasion on Thursday. The firm says the most recent mannequin will run for as much as to fifteen hours on a single cost and that it will likely be extremely skinny (0.62 inches) and extremely mild (a hair below 2.5 kilos).

It has a 12.4-inch touchscreen with a 3:2 ratio, a decision of 1536 x 1024 and 320 nits of brightness. At first look, the bezel does not appear to have modified a lot from earlier iterations.

Efficiency-wise, Microsoft claims the Surface Laptop Go 3 is 88 p.c quicker than the unique mannequin, which arrived three years in the past. The pocket book has a Twelfth-gen Intel Core i5 CPU and Intel Iris Xe graphics. You possibly can configure it with as much as 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of storage (512GB within the business model).

As well as, there is a 720p HD front-facing digicam, fingerprint energy button, twin far-field Studio Mics and Omnisonic audio system with Dolby Audio. On the connectivity entrance, you may get a USB-C 3.2 port that you will use for DisplayPort and quick charging, a USB-A 3.1 port, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a Surface Join port. There’s Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 assist too.

Unsurprisingly, given Microsoft’s focus on AI over the past yr, the laptop computer will embrace the corporate’s Copilot AI, which it is baking into Home windows 11. The Surface Laptop Go 3 can be obtainable in 4 colours — Platinum, Sage, Sandstone and Ice Blue. It’ll begin at $799 and it is going to arrive on October 3.

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