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Microsoft's Surface laptops are intended to be a showcase for what a Windows PC can do, and while some of them have been better than others, the lineup is one of the best competitors against Apple's MacBook laptops. Now, at the company's latest hardware event, the Surface Laptop Studio 2 was announced, and it's a huge upgrade from the original model.

The Surface Laptop Studio 2 was announced by Microsoft alongside the Surface Laptop Go 3, and it's a huge upgrade from the first Laptop Studio, despite the fact that it hasonlyy been two years since the first one was announced. The new laptop is coming with Intel's 13th gen Core i7 CPUs, more specifically in their H-class flavor. This means that the CPUs in this laptop lineup should be plenty powerful for basically anything you want to do with it. However, they likely won't be as power-efficient as the Apple Silicon chips in Apple's MacBook Pro laptops, since Microsoft is sticking with x86-based Intel processors instead of ARM chips.

You also get to choose between an RTX 4050 and an RTX 4060 for the graphics card here, and Nvidia's RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU is also an option for professional design, modeling, and other graphically-demanding tasks that aren't optimized for gaming hardware. That Ada GPU is mostly just an RTX 4060 geared towards a different market.

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Microsoft claims that this new Surface Laptop Studio 2 performs twice as well as far as both CPU and GPU performance goes, so it's definitely exciting. Other specs include two USB-C ports, one USB-A port, and for a change, we also have a microSD card slot that will provide you with even more expandability options. It also supports the Surface Slim Pen 2, which is able to magnetically attach to the right side of the display. It can also be configured with up to 64GB of RAM and 2TB of storage.

The laptop starts at $1,999, and you can now pre-order it on Microsoft's website. It will release on October 3rd, just a few weeks from now, so mark the date. After that, the laptop should be available through all the usual retail stores, like Amazon and Best Buy in the United States.

Source: The Verge