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Microsoft Surface Laptop hands-on review: all the AI you need in a $899 entry-level laptop

Mid-specs aside, this laptop performs well

The Surface Laptop sounded especially dull with its only 60Hz, fewer CPU cores, and smaller screen – but after getting actual hands-on time with the notebook, I came away loving the machine. I was really hoping the new Surface Laptop would feature a new, hotly anticipated Snapdragon X2 processor, but it’s from the same family of Qualcomm chips announced last year. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor in the Surface Laptop might be a lesser chip, but it still features a full-fat NPU with 45 TOPs of AI performance.

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