Microsoft’s upcoming special event on Sept. 21 is going to be more of the “let us tell you about how wonderful our AI is” that seems to be in this year’s marketing playbook, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there won’t be any Surface hardware, long a staple of Microsoft’s annual fall announcements.
According to photos and information gathered by site WinFuture.de based on retailer information in Europe, we can expect the Surface Laptop Go 4 and Surface Laptop Studio 2, small-to-modest updates of their predecessors, the Surface Laptop Studio and Surface Laptop Go 3. There’s usually a new model of the company’s Surface Pro tablet — most recently the Surface Pro 9 — so I wouldn’t necessarily discount that appearing.
The 14-inch Studio launched in 2021 and didn’t see any updates last year. This year, it will reportedly be getting a processor and graphics update to the Intel Core i7-13700H or i7-13800H (they’re essentially the same chip, but the latter can hit slightly higher clock speeds) and up to Nvidia’s 8GB GeForce RTX 4060 mobile. The chip upgrade brings with it an update to Wi-Fi 6E and a newer version of Bluetooth.
