A few weeks ago, Microsoft confirmed that today, Thursday the 21st, there would be an event that we knew from the first moment would feature two product lines that Microsoft has been giving more affection to lately. Surface devices and a suite of AI-powered features and services within Copilot. Two families from the Redmond catalog that generally have a fairly positive image among the general public.

oh yeah sure one would expect some design that combines the best of both worlds, and in this case, what we’ve been expecting for a few months now was the Surface, focusing on its capabilities in relation to artificial intelligence. We have already commented on this on more than one occasion, and time is proving it: if 2023 was the year of AI-based services, 2024 will be the year of devices with AI computing capacity.

Recently, but before the official confirmation from Microsoft, it was published that those from Redmond had already planned the event that took place today, and we could also assume that its two main protagonists, in terms of devices, would be Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6. And time proved us right again, as these are indeed two new additions to the already wide and diverse Surface family.

Of course, and perhaps to the disappointment of many, at least initially Both proposals are focused exclusively on the professional field., to the extent that they don’t even reach retail distributors. I honestly don’t really understand why they made this very restrictive decision, but hopefully we’ll see them make it to the consumer market later on.

Surface Pro 10

So let’s start with what was the main protagonist of the event, a high-performance two-in-one device that will become the first device signed by Microsoft that focuses on artificial intelligence. We find versions for this purpose equipped with integrated Intel Core Ultra 5 and 7 processors which, as you already know, are the first integrated Intel devices to have an NPU (Neural Process Unit), a component dedicated to AI computing. This integrated is supported up to 64 gigabytes of LPDDR5x RAM and up to one terabyte of PCIe SSD storage.

Since we are talking about a two-in-one device, its screen plays a very important role and Microsoft did not want to be left behind in this regard. So we find the PixelSense Flow screen 13 inches with FullHD+ resolution (2,880 x 1,920 in a 3:2 aspect ratio) with a refresh rate of up to 120 hertz. It has anti-reflective protection and its brightness can reach up to 600 nits.

Although we’ve already seen proposals in this regard from other manufacturers and builders, this Surface 10 Pro is the first device from Microsoft to include the Copilot key, one of the most notable changes to the device’s layout in recent years. PC PC keyboard. How useful this will end up being remains to be seen, but Microsoft certainly scored well with its entry into the industry.

Surface Laptop 6

If we compare the specifications of this Notebook 6 with those of the Surface Pro 10, we will see that there are actually almost no differences between them. The main one is, of course, that in this case we are talking about conventional notebooks, not convertibles, and also that in this case (and therefore I speak in the plural) Microsoft offers two versions, one 13.5 inches and the other 15 inches. However, all the main specifications of the screens on these three devices are the same, the only difference being their respective sizes.

Already inside, again what I mentioned earlier, integrated Intel Core Ultra 5 and Ultra 7 with up to 64 gigabytes of RAM and up to a terabyte of storage. We see only one significant difference between the 13.5-inch model and the 15-inch model, which is that the former has one USB-C 4 / Thunderbolt 4 port, while the 15-inch model integrates two, just like the Pro 10. And in terms of autonomy, Microsoft estimates , that both Laptop 6s are 18.5 hours, slightly less than the Pro 10’s 19.

So we can state that the big difference between the two designs lies in the interest we have in a device that can function as a laptop and a tablet, or if, on the contrary, we prefer a more traditional laptop design.

Microsoft Copilot

When it comes to Copilot, the truth is that a big part of the action was played by… Surface. Yes, come on, some announcements have been made, but without being irrelevant, they’re not as profoundly noteworthy as the ones we’ve seen in some of the previous events. This is not a criticism now, as it is virtually impossible to maintain the pace some tech companies have set during 2023 in the medium to long term.

That said, I want to focus on one of the announcements they made, which is that the Copilot integration in Windows 11, which is currently still in beta and with limited availability, will be updated earlier at the end of the month to a new version that will contain new features focused on accessibility. In this way, it will be possible to activate and modify some of the most important Windows functions in this area with an AI-based assistant. And of course anything that is progress in that sense is something to be celebrated.

On the other hand, although Copilot is supposed to be an ecosystem, the truth is that there is still a lack of integration between products and services, which means that its operation (depending on the workflows associated with the tool) is not optimal. And as an improvement along those lines, Microsoft announced today Copilot features for Microsoft 365 will be available with the Copilot implementation on Windows. In this way, we can run tasks specific to the Microsoft office suite directly from Windows. It will be interesting to check, yes, the level of depth of this integration, but also to check the control it offers us, precisely in this sense.