Quick links for new Microsoft Surface preorder listings: Available Oct. 3 Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 Starting at $1,999.99 Pre-order Now Available Oct. 3 Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 Starting at $799.99 Pre-order Now
Microsoft unveiled the next generation of Surface laptops at its "special event" in New York City Thursday: the Surface Laptop Studio 2 and the Surface Laptop Go 3. Both of them are now available for preorder in the Microsoft Store.
The new Surface Laptop Studio 2, Microsoft's "most powerful Surface yet," replaces the Mashable Choice Award-winning Surface Laptop Studio from 2021 and retains the same unique pull-forward 14.4-inch touchscreen display. It's powered by a 13th-gen Intel Core i7 H-class processor with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050, 4060, or RTX 2000 GPUs, and features the first-ever Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) in a Windows computer. It also comes with a new haptic touchpad that's billed as the "most inclusive touchpad on any laptop." You can squeeze up to 18 hours of battery life out of it.
The Surface Laptop Studio 2 will start at $1,999.99 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage (configurable up to 64GB of RAM and 2TB of storage). That's $400 more than its predecessor's base model.
SEE ALSO: How to watch the Microsoft Surface event livestreamMeanwhile, the new Surface Laptop Go 3 is a cheaper, more portable notebook with a 12.4-inch touchscreen display that succeeds last year's Surface Laptop Go 2, upgrading it with a faster 12th-gen Intel Core i5 processor and a 15-hour battery life (up from 13.5 hours). It still weighs in at just 2.5 pounds and comes in four colors.
The Surface Laptop Go 3 will start at $799.99 with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of UFS storage (configurable up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage), which is a $200 price bump.
Both laptops are set for release on Tuesday, Oct. 3.
