According to a new report, Microsoft is readying a next-generation Surface Book, albeit one that could be unrecognisable from the Surface Book 3. Reputedly, the next Surface Book may not be called a Surface Book at all, and will not have a detachable display. It will have a high-refresh-rate 14-inch screen, though.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-Surface-Book-4-rumoured-to-feature-a-non-detachable-14-inch-and-high-refresh-rate-display-with-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-GPUs.554927.0.html
If MS doesn't catch the "skinny laptop" disease--and thus preserves a good selection of ports, a keyboard with good travel, and a heatsink solution with good capacity--this sounds delicious!
Not too exciting. At this point Microsoft needs to make Apple M1 level of industry-shaking changes.
"non-detachable" = Surface Laptop
This is more of a Surface Laptop 5.
Being a high-end detachable is basically what makes a Surface Book. Without Thunderbolt it cannot be a premium device though.
Quote from: Dorby on August 13, 2021, 16:49:53
Not too exciting. At this point Microsoft needs to make Apple M1 level of industry-shaking changes.
I think the M1 is a great chip but industry changing? The industry isn't realy developing for ARM even with the launch of the M1 macbooks. ARM is still a good 10 years if not more out from x86 so I would hardly call the M1 "industry changing".
ARM will need to find success in the enterprise we see development at scale and apple doesn't exist in the enterprise world.
@Shadowxaero:
It is for the consumer mobile PC market. Depends on which Industries we're talking about. One thing is for certain, the future does not lie in legacy x86 software anymore.