When the keyboard is laid on the screen, the area of the screen above the keyboard adapts and acts as either a trackpad or what they dubbed the Wunderbar. The way the keyboard attaches and flips around from the back, becoming more like a “real” laptop is certainly innovative. They also showed off some accessories for the Neo, a magnetically attached pencil and keyboard. You can prop is up, twist it around, flip it however you like, and the screens will adapt to the orientation. You can open it like a laptop and have one horizontal and one vertical. You can open it like a book and have two portrait screens side by side. (Read: It has Office on it) The gestures looked intuitive, allowing apps to span two screens and work in many different modes, which Microsoft branded as postures.
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In the sizzle reel and the demos they showed off, it looked like a slick touch-first OS, and they touted it as having the full power of Windows.
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The Surface Neo runs on the new Windows 10X, which is designed around the concept of having two screens. In reality, it’s a little more complicated than that. That’s what it looks like on on the outside. He gave a typical Silicon Valley teary-eyed “we’re changing the world” spiel, but then he one-more-thing’d himself and gave a sneak peak at a product which isn’t coming out until late next year, the Surface Neo.Īt first glance, the Surface Neo may look like two iPads stitched together.
But this was Microsoft, and Panos wasn’t done yet. If this were an Apple event, they would have made the invitations say “by innovation only” and every announcement would have been interrupted by raucous applause.
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They also threw an “AI engine” in there, because… why not? It looks like a really nice, high end Surface Pro and that’s what it is. It has a new flatter Surface pen, which magnetically attaches and charges in the new Surface type cover. For the nerds, the exciting parts are the CPU, which is a collaboration between Microsoft and Qualcomm, and that it’s the first ARM based Surface since the poorly received Windows RT. This starts at $999 and to the layman, it’s a fancier Surface Pro which some impressive specs. They also showed off a bigger and badder Surface Pro, the Surface Pro X.
I hope they can deliver on the live translation feature ( unlike Google) but I don’t think Office 365 integration is what anyone wants from their headphones. They also introduced some new products, the ridiculous looking Surface Buds which have some cool features and some head scratching ones. If you haven’t paid attention to the Surface line over the years it may come as a surprise, but seriously, Microsoft makes some really good hardware. Both were welcome updates to already good hardware. Surface Pro 6 became Surface Pro 7, following a similar formula. I appreciated his not-so-subtle digs at Apple’s unreliable Butterfly keyboard and lack of repair-ability. Surface Laptop 2 became Surface Laptop 3, adding USB-C, a new aluminum finish, an option for a 15” display, and some updated Intel and AMD CPUs. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief hardware showman, started the event by going through some iterative updates. In many ways what they announced was unique, exciting and innovative. I’m a sucker for new computing platforms and innovative hardware, so Microsoft’s announcement last week caught my attention. Thoughts on Microsoft's Surface Neo and Duo
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