Microsoft is set to launch a new Surface Laptop to make up the delayed release of the Surface Pro 5. The said product is allegedly good enough to compete with Google's Chromebook, who is creating some noise in the trade market lately. What will the new product offer to consumers?
Microsoft is a multinational company that develops, manufactures and supports computer software, electronic products, and online services. The Windows operating system, Office suite and Internet Explorer are some of its famous software products while the Xbox video game consoles and the Surface Laptop product line are their notable hardware devices.
And with the Spring Event is just around the corner, Microsoft will have the opportunity again to showcase its latest products to the general public. However, the company confirmed that it will not launch the much awaited Surface Pro 5 and instead will introduce a new Surface Laptop to match up with Google's Chromebook release.
According to Forbes, Microsoft appears to be pushing to unleash a low-cost Surface Laptop ahead of the Surface Pro 5 and battle the emerging Google's Chromebook platform. The Redmond-based company reportedly will concentrate mainly on its software and that could also run on a new variant of Windows 10.
Microsoft alleged new Surface Laptop will be powered by a Windows 10 Cloud software that will focus on giving cloud services on a lower cost technology. Windows 10 Cloud will limit apps to the Windows Store that will apparently prevent the use of non-Store applications like the Google Chrome.
On the separate report of PC World, a leaked Microsoft document dubbed the new Surface Laptop as an "Edu Cloud device" (which industry experts named "Cloudbooks"). The document also detailed some feature of the said device that will have an all-day battery life, a quick boot and a resume cycle.
In the document, Microsoft also detailed the specs of the new Surface Laptop that includes a quad-core processor like Celeron or higher, 4GB RAM, 32GB internal storage and a 'fast' eMMC or SSD. Pen or touched-enabled screen was also noted as optional. The document also points to Google's Chromebook as the "Cloudbooks" main rival.
