
The big Microsoft Build 2024 developer conference kicked off with a bang this week as company chief Satya Nadella introduced us to two new Surface products: The Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7.
These are exciting devices because they're the first Surface PCs Microsoft has shipped with Qualcomm chips inside — specifically the Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite processors. And those chipsets could deliver significant improvements in battery life over the best Windows laptops on the market right now, as those machines are mostly driven by Intel Meteor Lake chips.