Expect new OLED displays and spec bumps.
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So here we go again. Looks like a March announcement for upcoming Surface devices supposedly with Meteor Lake but I can't find many other details.
The Surface Pro is a great tablet but for me I prefer the Laptop. I have had a few over the years and the black aluminum is my favorite, although it would be nice to have some other colors in the all aluminum chassis.
I don't know, Microsoft has an opportunity to really Wow us again since the Laptop 5 is a pretty old design. I really want to see a big redesign and not just a reiteration of the same thing. They don't need to change the design completely but they should be able to fit a 14" screen in the same chassis and can still shrink the design a bit. We need narrow bezels and if MS is sticking with it's rounded UI theme then the corners of the screen should be rounded to match. It would also match the boxy design of the laptop with rounded corners. We need a big screen upgrade. I would prefer Oled but I doubt that will make it so a good 120hz high contrast IPS panel would suffice. I like the haptic track pad. The speakers are really good and I don't mind them being under the keyboard but I would like even louder volume and deeper bass. Then we need bigger batteries and a better cooling system. Since MS is using a small laptop frame a vapor chamber cooling with dual fans would be great.
If the laptop came with arm then it might give me something to consider.
The Surface Pro 9 was almost there with slimmer bezels on the sides and 120hz screen.
Ports. We need more ports. I get the Ultrabooks get away with less ports but one usb a and one usb c is just not enough. 2 thunderbolt ports, one usb a, micro sd, and the magnetic power adapter would be more than enough. HDMI would also be nice but at least those ports.
I have had thin and light notebooks with limited ports but at least you get two thunderbolt and one usb a. Of course all of these have the 3.5mm headphone jack.
I don't know. I just feel like these are going to be priced high and probably use Intel U series for meteor lake but who knows the u7 155h would be a good fit if it had enough cooling. But if you got the ultra 7 155h and 16 or 32gb ram and a 1 tb drive it is going to cost a fortune. And it will still probably have inferior parts like LCD vs OLED, 60hz vs 120hz, etc.
I am a bit pessimistic I admit. I drool over these devices specially a few years ago. No bloatware, easy to wipe the drive and install the latest fresh version of Windows made for your device, great hardware design for the time and even if dated cpu still a very compelling device. I really hope they make another great pair or devices. Surface pro 10 is set to get OLED but it doesn't say the laptop....
In my opinion the biggest problem with the Laptop 6 potentially is that Microsoft needs to refresh the hardware with some major revisions and they haven't done it in a while. We will see if they do this time.
What I wish would happen but never will, is MS releases the Surface Laptop 6 line to compete with Apple's air and MBP and aggressively price to compete. 8gb/256gb model base starts at $1000, 16/512gb is $1399, 32/1tb $1899. MS puts a 120hz 3k OLED touch panel with ar coating, Ultra 155 and 165h and ddr 5x ram. larger batteries and slimmer bezels. New colors. MS releases a MS laptop 6 Ultra with dedicated Nvidia 4060 GPU or better and only available in 16" size with dual fan cooling, large power adapter, Intel Ultra highest version. $2499. They would be very competitive and have a product that could be very successful.
I bet the line up will be more expensive and not have OLED screens and maybe not even 120hz and with the Studio instead of the Ultra version I was proposing and the anything not Studio will be just a consumer laptop for general use.
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with endurance that even rivals Apple.
