If we had been told 15 years ago that Microsoft was going to have its own line of computers, then many of us would have laughed. Today the Redmond company has its own range of PCs and with undoubted prestige, however, there was one sector that they had forgotten and it seemed that their only hardware to play with was the Xbox. Alright we’ll see the first surface laptop for gaming. What will he take inside? Let’s see.
Microsoft is very strong when it comes to video games, not only because of the success of its excellent next-gen consoles and the impact Game Pass has had on the market. If not also because of the fact that being a developer of the DirectX API, it has direct contact with the developers, which gives them an advantage that allows them to be on the front line. Let’s not forget that any technology always appears first on PC. However, we were missing a gaming Surface laptop with the excellent industrial design that characterizes them.
It’s the first Surface laptop for gaming
Yes, Microsoft is going to join the manufacturing of gaming laptops and we all know this because of a specs leak that happened in the last few hours. We don’t know if it’s intentional on the part of those at Redmond to make some noise in favor of their new Surface gaming laptop or if it’s just the classic factory leak. In any case, the image filtered by theprimegaming indicates that it is part of a clipping from the product’s website.
As you can see, the general specifications of the product, and which we are interested in for gaming, are as follows:
- Intel Core i5-12500H or i7-12700H processor depending on option.
- 16 or 32 GB Depending on the model we choose, both are of the type LPDDR4Xit will therefore be soldered to the board and cannot be extended.
- As a graphics card we will have a NVIDIA RTX 3050Ti or a RTX-3070Ti, both in their laptop models. The first with 4 GB of VRAM memory and the second with 8 GB.
- As for storage, it will be NVMe-SSD with parameters of 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB 0 2TB. The good news is that it is not a soldered on board memory and can be modified. Although we don’t know if we can extend it with another module.
- The screen of both models is the same, a 2560 x 1440 Quad HD PixelSense type pixels with a refresh rate of 165 Hz.
Apparently and being careful, we have Microsoft will launch two different modelswe know this from the fact that the specifications speak of two different weights, one for the model with the i5 and the other for the model with the i7.
Launch and starting price
Well, at the moment we don’t know the two pieces of information, since it has not been officially presented and we could see it on the market in the coming months. In any case, despite what the sources say, we don’t think we will see it being shown at CES, since it is expected that at that time we will see laptops with Intel Core 13 and RTX 40. C is, they would view this Surface gaming laptop as somewhat outdated in terms of specs.
