Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 & Laptop Go 3 Leaked

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Microsoft has scheduled a special product announcement event for next week—Germany's WinFuture has likely spoiled all mystery ahead of time by revealing two next generation Surface devices. It was already speculated that Microsoft would exhibit a bunch of new portable Windows PCs at the upcoming September 21 New York City-based shindig, but this week's leak treats us to photos and initial specifications for the Laptop Studio 2 and Laptop Go 3. The former retains its predecessor's 14.4-inch 3:2 format display, with a 2400×1600 resolution and 120 Hz refresh rate. Under-the-hood improvements for the Surface Laptop Studio 2 include a jump up to 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake CPUs (from 11th Gen Tiger Lake)—WinFuture reckons that two options are lined up: Core i7-13700H and and Core i7-13800H. The Surface Laptop Studio 2's discrete graphics solution is speculated to be a mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 or RTX 4060 GPU.

A base model could rely on an iGPU based on Intel Iris Xe graphics architecture. 64 GB of LPDDR5X memory is believed to exist with some configurations, which is a nice upgrade (albeit probably a very pricey option) over the previous generation's 16 or 32 GB RAM offerings. The leaked photos indicate that a Micro-SD slot and USB Type-A connector are new additions for 2023's model. The WinFuture article presents some prices—€2249 (~$2400) for the basic iGPU model, mid-tier with RTX 4050: €2729 (~$2915), and €3199 (~$3415) for an almost top flight model sporting 32 GB RAM and RTX 4060. The Surface Laptop Go 3, meanwhile, looks a little less exciting—it is said to get a CPU bump up to Intel Core i5-1135G and Core i5-1235U processors. Otherwise it looks largely similar to its previous-gen sibling. The leak did not include images of a reported Surface Go 4, but WinFuture expects it to be presented next week, powered by an Intel N200 SoC.



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[Chaitanya]

No AMD Cpus and still no Full sized SD readers and probably with same horribly bad repairability of previous gen, thanks but not thanks.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Who is the MicroSD slot aimed at these days? At one time it was to help supplement storage, but that’s a pretty slow alternative these days.

 

[Nostras]

I've always been interested in the laptops but somehow they're always twice as expensive as I expect them to be.

 

[Wirko]

I'm wondering if the Windows 11 user interface is any good at least for this vertically integrated, touch-enabled thing.

 

[Deleted member 185088]

No AMD Cpus and still no Full sized SD readers and probably with same horribly bad repairability of previous gen, thanks but not thanks.

Makes no sense why they only offer Intel, they are more power hungry while being at best as fast as AMD cpus.

 

[Chaitanya]

Makes no sense why they only offer Intel, they are more power hungry while being at best as fast as AMD cpus.

And in of MS in the past and game console side of things AMD is more than willing to make custom CPUs. AMD even last gen have great battery life so absolutely no idea why MS is stuck with Intel.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I imagine Intel and MS have worked some sort of deal to codevelop the product line. Intel already gets to watch AMD power Xbox, so I suspect it's a pretty good deal for MS.

 

[bobsled]

And in of MS in the past and game console side of things AMD is more than willing to make custom CPUs. AMD even last gen have great battery life so absolutely no idea why MS is stuck with Intel.

Maybe Vpro tie-ins with Intel.

Why they’re only adding USB-A now is beyond me, but welcome nonetheless.

 

[trsttte]

Who is the MicroSD slot aimed at these days?

I'm still waiting to know who it was ever aimed at? MicroSD cards were mostly only popular with either cellphones or the nintendo switch. It doesn't make sense to use a storage expansion as it's small, slow and not very durable format and anything important is using the original bigger brother SD card. To me it always looked like a useless attempt at saving some space while still offering something

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I'm still waiting to know who it was ever aimed at? MicroSD cards were mostly only popular with either cellphones or the nintendo switch. It doesn't make sense to use a storage expansion as it's small, slow and not very durable format and anything important is using the original bigger brother SD card. To me it always looked like a useless attempt at saving some space while still offering something

Back when the original Surface launched, internal storage was pretty slim. I had both the RT and the 2, and I tried to use that microsd as supplemental storage. The problem is, it would often unmount during sleep, so it was pretty useless unless you wanted to eject and reinsert every time it did that. I wanted to like those devices, but they were just so unreliable.

 

[Deleted member 185088]

I imagine Intel and MS have worked some sort of deal to codevelop the product line. Intel already gets to watch AMD power Xbox, so I suspect it's a pretty good deal for MS.

The only reason I can see as well. I have a surface pro and it gets very hot especially with the stupid decision of Intel to lock under-volting.

Who is the MicroSD slot aimed at these days? At one time it was to help supplement storage, but that’s a pretty slow alternative these days.

I have a microSD card on my surface pro, I use it for media stuff e.g on a flight I put some movies so performance isn't an issue.

 

[mechtech]

"3:2 format display, with a 2400×1600 resolution and 120 Hz refresh rate"

Make me a ~23 inch monitor with that res, and true 10-bit colour and non-pwm FALD backlighting please.

 

[alphaLONE]

surprised how they won't put a N300 or N305 in the Laptop Go. it'd be a good fit.

 

[Totally]

Who is the MicroSD slot aimed at these days? At one time it was to help supplement storage, but that’s a pretty slow alternative these days.

Not really, on paper it may be slow, in practice, it's a much simpler affair to use an SD card/usb to transfer files between devices especially if the devices have incompatible ecosystems.

 

[Luke357]

The only reason I can see as well. I have a surface pro and it gets very hot especially with the stupid decision of Intel to lock under-volting.

I have a microSD card on my surface pro, I use it for media stuff e.g on a flight I put some movies so performance isn't an issue.

Used to use one in my S3. Great for movies and pictures.

 

[Scrizz]

I'm still waiting to know who it was ever aimed at? MicroSD cards were mostly only popular with either cellphones or the nintendo switch. It doesn't make sense to use a storage expansion as it's small, slow and not very durable format and anything important is using the original bigger brother SD card. To me it always looked like a useless attempt at saving some space while still offering something

I mean microSD has been around a loooong time. I used it in my Motorola SLVR and Blackberry almost 20 years ago.