{"id":100270,"date":"2025-01-30T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/microsoft-updates-intel-based-surface-pcs-if-you-can-pay-for-them\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:00:25","slug":"microsoft-updates-intel-based-surface-pcs-if-you-can-pay-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/microsoft-updates-intel-based-surface-pcs-if-you-can-pay-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft updates Intel-based Surface PCs, if you can pay for them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/07\/surface-pro-11-and-laptop-7-review-an-apple-silicon-moment-for-windows\/\">switched the Surface Pro tablet and both sizes of Surface Laptop<\/a> from Intel and AMD&#8217;s processors to Qualcomm&#8217;s Arm-based processors last summer, part of a renewed hardware and software push to make the Arm version of Windows a thing. That ended a few years of a bifurcated approach, where the Intel and AMD versions of Surface PCs were the &#8220;main&#8221; versions and the Arm variants felt more like proof-of-concept side projects.<\/p>\n<p>But if you work in a large organization or you&#8217;re an IT administrator, the bifurcated approach continues. Microsoft announced <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/03\/microsoft-debuts-major-surface-overhauls-that-regular-people-cant-buy\/\">some business-only versions<\/a> of the Surface Pro tablet and the Surface Laptop last year that continued to use Intel processors, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/devices\/?p=263632\">today it&#8217;s announcing two more<\/a>, this time using Intel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/09\/testing-intels-next-gen-core-ultra-200v-cpus-ok-performance-great-battery-life\/\">Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The refresh includes a new Surface Pro tablet and both 13- and 15-inch versions of the Surface Laptop, updated with most of the same design tweaks that the Qualcomm versions of the devices got last year (for example, a slightly larger 13.8-inch screen on the smaller version of the Surface Laptop, up from 13.5 inches). Generally, they have similar dimensions, weights, and configuration options as their Arm counterparts, including an OLED display option for the Surface Pro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/01\/microsoft-updates-intel-based-surface-pcs-but-regular-people-still-cant-buy-them\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/01\/microsoft-updates-intel-based-surface-pcs-but-regular-people-still-cant-buy-them\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft switched the Surface Pro tablet and both sizes of Surface Laptop from Intel and AMD&#8217;s processors to Qualcomm&#8217;s Arm-based processors last summer, part of a renewed hardware and software push to make the Arm version of Windows a thing. 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