
It maintains the thin and light form you’d expect while bumping up performance on the inside. The Surface Laptop has proved to be one of Microsoft’s most popular hardware offerings, and it got upgraded to the Surface Laptop 5 at the event. As for the SQ3 edition, that starts at $1,300 for 8GB of memory and 128GB of storage, and tops out at $1,900 for 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage. On the Intel side, prices start at $1,000 for a model with an Intel Core i5 chip, 8GB of memory, and 128GB of storage, and range up to $2,600 for an Intel Core i7 processor, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. Oh, and Microsoft announced a collaboration with London’s Liberty design studio to create a special Surface Pro keyboard and laser-etched Surface Pro 9. Regardless of chip choice, the Surface Pro 9’s screen boasts a 120Hz refresh rate and an HD camera, and there’s a custom G6 chip for a better tactile inking experience. Unfortunately, you can’t have both Thunderbolt 4 and 5G - it’s one or the other. Go for the former and you get Thunderbolt 4 ports, but choose the latter and you get 5G connectivity instead. Microsoft says the Intel chip brings 50% better performance than the Surface Pro 8, while the SQ3 offers up to 19 hours of battery life and a new Neural Processing Unit. In the blue corner are 12th-generation Intel Core processors, while in the red corner sits Microsoft’s own SQ3 chip. That means the Surface Pro 9 is split along two major fault lines, and the path you choose is decided by the chip you opt for.

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