Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Go 3 during its fall hardware (and AI) event on Thursday. The company says the latest model will run for up to to 15 hours on a single charge and that it will be ultra thin (0.62 inches) and ultra light (a hair under 2.5 pounds).
It has a 12.4-inch touchscreen with a 3:2 ratio, a resolution of 1536 x 1024 and 320 nits of brightness. At first glance, the bezel doesn’t seem to have changed much from previous iterations.
Performance-wise, Microsoft claims the Surface Laptop Go 3 is 88 percent faster than the original model, which arrived three years ago. The notebook has a 12th-gen Intel Core i5 CPU and Intel Iris Xe graphics. You can configure it with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of storage (512GB in the commercial version).
In addition, there’s a 720p HD front-facing camera, fingerprint power button, dual far-field Studio Mics and Omnisonic speakers with Dolby Audio. On the connectivity front, you’ll get a USB-C 3.2 port that you’ll use for DisplayPort and fast charging, a USB-A 3.1 port, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a Surface Connect port. There’s Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 support too.
Unsurprisingly, given Microsoft’s focus on AI over the last year, the laptop will embrace the company’s Copilot AI, which it’s baking into Windows 11. The Surface Laptop Go 3 will be available in four colors — Platinum, Sage, Sandstone and Ice Blue. It will start at $799 and it will arrive on October 3.
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This story originally appeared on Engadget
