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Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop

The Surface Laptop 6 takes aim at the modern MacBook.

It’s got one big difference from the Surface Laptop 6 for Business announced in March — it’s equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip instead of Intel’s Core Ultra, leveling the playing field, the company hopes, with Apple’s powerful and efficient MacBook laptops. The company says it’s “80 percent faster than our previous generation” and offers “up to 22 hours of local video playback.” It’s got a haptic touchpad, just as Apple’s MacBooks have had for years. Whether these computers can match or outdo Apple’s custom silicon remains to be seen, but at least when it comes to battery life, they should fare better than their Intel Core Ultra siblings.

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