Microsoft’s September 21 Event – What Surface Tablets And Computers Are Expected

Microsoft has usually held an October event every year where they’ve launched new hardware. But this week they sent out invitations for a press show on September 21st in New York, where the latest 2023-2024 models of Surface devices, software, and AI services are expected to be announced. On the tablet side of things, two upgraded Surface tablets are expected. These are the 10.5-inch Surface Go 4 with an Intel … more…

Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock Launched For $299

Microsoft surprised with the launch of the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock today, which is a USB 4 / Thunderbolt 4 dock primarily aimed at Surface tablets and laptops for $299: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-thunderbolt-4-dock The tech specs for the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock includes support for 2x 4K monitors at 60Hz, 40Gbps data transfer speeds, 96W USB C passthrough charging power with 165 power, 3x USB A 3.1 Gen 2 ports, 3x USB … more…

Surface Pro X Rugged Case ‘Kensington Blackbelt 2nd Degree’ Launching June 23rd

Surface Pro X Rugged Case - Kensington Black Belt 2nd Degree

It’s been a few weeks since the Windows 10 tablet Surface Pro X launched to say the least. But now a custom Surface Pro X rugged case will launch for it, as the Kensington Blackbelt 2nd Degree series of rugged tablet cases will launch for the Surface Pro X to on June 23rd: https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Blackbelt-Degree-Surface-K97324WW/ Kensington has a line of rugged tablet cases mainly for Surface tablets, as Kensington is a … more…

Microsoft Surface Book 3 With 32GB RAM + 10th Gen. Intel Core i5 And i7 Listed By Retailers

We have a similar situation unfolding with the Microsoft Surface Book 3 as we have with the Surface Go 2. They are both listed by the many of the same retailers in the EU, which coincides with Microsoft’s approval from the FCC of a new unidentified tablet. Both of these tablets have already been expected to launch this spring, but now we have the possible Surface Book 3 processor specs … more…

Microsoft Experimenting With AMD And Qualcomm Chipsets In Surface Devices Says Insiders

Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Qualcomm AMD 2019

PCworld has picked up an interesting story, this time by Brad Sams on Petri, where he claims insider info on the CPU’s of the next Surface Pro 7 this fall. According to his insider sources in Redmond, Microsoft just like Apple is in a frustrating relationship with chipmaker Intel, so Microsoft have been looking for alternative chips from both AMD and Qualcomm, and it’s even said that Microsoft is already … more…

Highlights Of The New Microsoft Surface Studio 2 With Benchmarks – Release November 15

MICROSOFT SURFACE STUDIO 2

In addition to the upgraded new Surface Pro 6, one of the other Windows 10 computers Microsoft unveiled was the new Microsoft Surface Studio 2: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-studio-2/ As a 28-inch desktop computer, it would normally fall into the category of a AIO (All In One), but given the unique design, it is different from other AIO. And here’s a brief look at the highlights of the new Surface Studio 2. The … more…

Microsoft Surface Studio 2 Benchmarked With Intel Core i7-7820HQ Processor And 32GB RAM

Microsoft Surface Studio 2 Benchmark Scores

Today it’s precisely 1 year and 11 months since Microsoft unveiled their 28-inch Surface Studio desktop, So today let’s bring out the first Microsoft Surface Studio 2 leak. The upcoming new Microsoft Surface Studio 2 that we expect to be unveiled at Microsoft’s October 2 event, appears to have been benchmarked 11 times in public now in September, with very consistent benchmark figures. So if these benchmarks are genuine, and … more…

Microsoft Surface Hub 2 To Launch In Q2 2019 With ‘Modular’ Hardware Upgrade Design

Surface Hub 2S

General manager of hardware engineering at Microsoft, Robin Seiler announced some more details today for Microsoft’s upcoming new Surface Hub 2, the giant team work tablet at up to 84 inches. The current Surface Hub was launched in 2015 in the sizes 55-inch with 1920 x 1080 resolution, and 84-inch with 3840 x 2160 resolution, powered by 4th gen. Intel Core i5 and i7 respectively, while running a Windows OS … more…

Surface Go Now Taking Pre-Orders Ahead Of August 2 Release – And How Does This Tablet Compare To Others?

Microsoft Surface Go Black Friday Sale

Microsoft Surface Go was unveiled earlier today, and has just started taking pre-orders from Microsoft Store. The Surface Go release date is August 2, so it’s time to look at how Microsoft’s new entry level Surface compares to other tablets in this category. Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FKVTPC2/ We will be looking at comparisons and benchmark scores, and the details. Microsoft Surface Go is the successor to the Surface 3, … more…

Microsoft Portable Computing Device Model Number 1824 FCC Approved

Microsoft Surface Model Number 1824

What could be the next Microsoft Surface tablet, 2-in-1, or laptop have been approved by the FCC under the description portable computing device, with Microsoft’s internal model number 1824. Microsoft is always very good at hiding just enough specs to make out for sure what device it is in advance, so we can’t tell for sure what Surface computer this is yet, but at least it shouldn’t be the new … more…

Microsoft Surface Pro Now $599 On Sale With $200 Off

Microsoft Surface Pro Sale June 2018

None of the usual channels have picked up any signs that Microsoft is about to launch a new Surface Pro soon, although Microsoft is the best computer company at keeping these details to themselves too, so you never know. The code names for what is believed to belong to several new Surface devices have surface online and been speculated around for the last few weeks, but little if any of … more…

New Microsoft Surface In 10-ish Size Windows 10 2-In-1 Category To Launch Between Q3 – Q4 2018

Surface 3 from 2015 now to be succeeded by 2018 Surface 4

Mark Gurman who covers tablets at Bloomberg reported a few hours ago together with Dina Bass, that Microsoft is planning to release a line of new Surface tablets in the price and size categories below the Surface Pro and Surface Book 2, quoting people familiar with the matter. What’s specified for the new Microsoft Surface 3 successor is that it’s a Windows 10 Pro tablet in the 10-inch size category … more…

Foldable Microsoft Tablet In The Works – Possible 2018 To 2019 Launch

Zac Bowden published another good article today writing on behalf of Windows Central, where he claims that the patents Microsoft have filed for foldable mobile devices, are more than just patents that secures rights for Microsoft, and that Microsoft is indeed working towards a foldable tablet or foldable phone that could launch as early as 2018, quoting insider sources. Though Bowden is the first person to caution that 2018 may … more…

New Surface Book 2 To Start From $1000, Ditches Tablet Hinges? Now In Production Ahead Of April Event

Ever since May last year it’s been believed that the new Surface Book 2 would launch in April 2017, and today there was finally some pretty exciting news for the Surface Book 2 again. According to supply chain sources that Digitimes have spoken to, Microsoft Surface Book 2 have entered into mass production, and is on target for an April unveiling. So that’s pretty exciting in itself, but even better … more…

Surface Studio Benchmarks Increases On Top-End 32GB RAM Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M GPU Model

Surface Studio benchmarks from last night have reached new heights, with a single-core score of 4,368 and multi-core score of 13,771. This in addition to the OpenCL score of 85,573. https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.5074015900 This Surface Studio benchmark score was achieved on the 32GB Surface Studio with the 117.1296.768 BIOS firmware, and Intel Core i7-6820HQ clocked at 2.71 GHz. That puts the processor score a few percent above the score of the i7-6820HQ … more…