Microsoft plans to launch the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 in just a few weeks’ time, boasting a brand new OLED display screen as a key improve to the Surface Pro pill, based on a report.

Windows Central, normally a dependable supply for Surface leaks, reported that the 2 Surface units will launch on March 21. Unsurprisingly, they are going to embody new Core Ultra processors, and likewise a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite possibility — which may also be accessible to the Surface Laptop 6, which might be a noteworthy change. (Update: The Verge contradicts this, saying that the March Surface replace might be for business variations, and the patron refresh will come later.)

In truth, it seems there might be different adjustments to the 2 units. According to Windows Central, the Surface Laptop 6 will boast a pair of what are presumably Thunderbolt ports, together with a USB-A port; the Surface Pro 10 will boast the brand new OLED display screen, which is turning into extra frequent throughout new laptops, plus an NFC reader and improved webcam. OLEDs boast inky blacks resulting from their wonderful, per-pixel distinction, which can enhance battery life.

Hardware adjustments haven’t been frequent for the Surface lineup, whose generations have been just about indistinguishable from each other through the years — I’ve affixed sticky notes to our evaluation items to make them simpler to determine. Microsoft’s final Surface Laptop, the Surface Laptop 5, debuted two years in the past in 2022, the identical 12 months that the Surface Pro 9 launched as effectively. Otherwise, new generations of Surface {hardware} are sometimes differentiated by simply inner upgrades to the processor. The actual change got here with the Surface Pro X: no relation to the Surface Pro 10.

That’s important right here, too. Our evaluation unit of the Surface Pro 9 included an Arm chip, which has been historically stricken by compatibility points and gradual execution of X86 apps. But Microsoft has additionally rewritten just about all of its key apps, together with Office, to run natively on Arm. For me, that meant that the Surface Pro 9 lived as much as its identify. Other reviewers disagreed, principally stating that they had been fed up with giving a move to Arm and the way slowly apps executed.

Now, Windows Central believes that, unsurprisingly, Microsoft will start providing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips inside the brand new Surface {hardware}, simply extra in the direction of the summer time. It’s an thrilling improvement; although Qualcomm solely allowed “hands-off” testing of the Snapdragon X Elite platform, benchmarks showed that it kept up. Intel’s 14th-gen Meteor Lake {hardware} provides distinctive battery life, nonetheless, and one check we’re trying ahead to working might be a head-to-head comparability of the Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) and the Snapdragon X Elite platform.

There’s one different angle Windows Central’s report brings up: AI. It seems that Microsoft might be pushing an enhanced model of Windows Copilot that comes with the Timeline options of years previous; you’ll be capable of question it about stuff you labored with some time in the past, and it is going to be “smarter” about discovering stuff you’ll want. Whether it is going to run natively on the Surface {hardware} is one other query, too.

Oh, and you need to see Copilot keys, too. In any occasion, it sounds prefer it received’t take lengthy to see it in motion for ourselves.

Updated at 10:36 AM PT with some extra reporting from The Verge.)