Microsoft yesterday refreshed its Surface family of hybrid notebooks, tablets and all-in-ones while announcing the company’s first AirPods rival. Here’s everything you need to know about the new Surface products and accessories.
Microsoft is working on a foldable, ‘pocketable,’ dual-screen Surface device, reports The Verge. The company has long been rumored to be working on such a tablet, codenamed Andromeda, but internal documents recently obtained by the outlet offer new details on the secret project.
Microsoft is reportedly planning to release a low-cost Surface line to better compete with Apple’s $329 iPad that was recently updated with iPhone 7’s A10 Fusion chip, Apple Pencil support and other improvements.
The new Surface Book laptops now come in two sizes and feature eighth-generation quad-core Intel processors, Nvidia graphics cards and improved battery life.
Pegatron is seeing much lower orders for Microsoft’s Surface Laptop, Surface Pro 5 and other Surface devices and accessories than it originally anticipated.
Teardown analysis of Surface Laptop has found a totally unrepairable and non-upgradable device due to the copious amount of glue used to hold the internals together.
Now better than ever, the new Surface Pro features 13.5 hours of battery life, new pen and keyboard colors and other perks.
Microsoft should announce a fifth-generation Surface Pro at an event next Tuesday in Shanghai. Here’s what it looks like.
You can snap Microsoft’s new wireless mouse into a curved position to power it up or flatten it when it needs powering down. How cool is that?
Make no bones about it, Microsoft is aiming squarely at both Apple’s MacBook and Google’s Chromebook Pixel with its just-announced Surface Laptop, available for preorder at $999.
Microsoft is simplifying the process of moving your Mac stuff over to the Surface laptop/tablet hybrid devices. As noted on Twitter three days ago, the Windows maker recently released a brand new app, Mac to Surface Assistant, provided as a free download from the Microsoft website. The migration tool requires an external USB drive and lets Apple users move all their photos, videos, music, mails, contacts, calendars and other files from a Mac to a Surface with a few clicks.
If you believe Microsoft, Apple fans are so disappointed with the new MacBook Pro that they’re now switching to Surface PCs and laptops in droves. In a blog post Monday by Brian Hall, CVP Microsoft Devices Marketing, trash-talked the new MacBook Pro, openly calling it a “disappointment”.
In the same breath, he suggested that the excitement of new Surface products coupled with the supposed MacBook Pro disappointment is now encouraging more people to switch from Macs to Surface than ever before.
