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It's fall tech event season. We've
already heard from Apple and Amazon.

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Now it is Microsoft's turn. We come to
these Microsoft events to see what the

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new hardware is,

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new things in the Surface line
that's just about 10 years old now.

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Started with the Surface Pro,

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which was a standalone Windows tablet
that had a really good clip on keyboard.

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That line now called
Surface Pro still exists,

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but we did not get any updates
to it this time around. Instead,

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we got updates to the least expensive
clamshell laptop Microsoft makes,

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and also their fanciest machine.

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So that's the Surface Laptop
Go 3 and the Surface Laptop

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Studio 2. I'll start with
the Surface Laptop Go 3.

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This is Microsoft's attempt
to make a reasonably small,

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reasonably inexpensive clamshell machine.
It has not changed that much in the

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three generation. They've been doing it.

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It's a little bit smaller than a standard
13 inch clamshell laptop. It's got a

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12.4 inch screen.

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They claim it's going to have
battery life of up to 15 hours,

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which is because it's running
a not very high-powered CPU,

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and that's okay. They
used to be less expensive.

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The new model starts at $799,

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which I feel kind of takes it out of the
category of being a true budget laptop.

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Now it's more like a mid-range
laptop, but because of inflation,

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so many other laptops
are more expensive now.

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I guess $799 isn't really that expensive.

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Whenever I've used the Surface
Laptop Go, whatever generation it is,

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I found it pretty easy to just
pick up and carry around with me.

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Very lightweight, very good for travel.

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I wouldn't want to use it as
my all day everyday laptop.

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It's more like a backup
machine or a travel machine.

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Much more interesting is the
Surface Laptop Studio 2. Now,

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this is a new way of doing a
hybrid for Microsoft, at least.

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This is the second generation of this
new way of doing a hybrid for Microsoft.

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It replaces something that used
to be called a Surface book,

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and that was a big base with
a keyboard and a big screen,

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and you could pull the two parts apart
and have either the screen or plug it

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back in and have a clamshell or plug
it back in backwards, fold it down,

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and then you'd have a big tablet. Well,
now they have a whole different design,

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and again,

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this is the second gen of this where
it's a screen that's hinged in the middle

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horizontally,

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so you kind of tilt the screen up and
then fold the entire thing down to form a

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tablet. It doesn't fold entirely
flat. It's like almost flat.

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There's a little bit of a rise to it.
But the real key to the Surface Laptop

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Studio 2 is that Microsoft says this is
the most powerful surface machine you

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can buy now.

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So it has got a 13th gen Intel
core iseries processor in it,

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and you can also get Nvidia
RTX4050 or 4060 GPUs.

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You can't go all the way up to like a 40,

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90 and make this a total gaming machine,

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but it would still be pretty
good at gaming or frankly,

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anything you needed to do that
you needed graphics power for,

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like let's say video and photo editing.

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It's also got an NPU a normal
processing unit on board,

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which will handle some
of that AI processing,

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and I think you're going to see that in
more and more machines going forward.

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This is not a giant machine.
It's not a small one either.

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It's got a 14.4 inch screen.
The touch pad is a haptic touch pad,

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which means that it doesn't
actually physically click down.

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MacBooks have had haptic touch pads
for years. It's really no big deal.

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You get used to it very quickly.

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It still does actually feel like you're
clicking on it even though you're not.

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And of course it works great with
the Microsoft Slim Pen Stylus,

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which is why you might want to fold it
down into tablet form and use it for

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drawing or sketching or note taking.
Unlike the Surface

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Laptop Go 3, which is $799,

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this is obviously much more expensive
being the more powerful system.

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It's going to start at $1999. Now both
of these are available for pre-order.

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Now. They are going to
go on sale October 3rd.