Microsoft Debuts New Surface Pro, Laptop And AI-Powered Surface Mouse

‘Surface is hardware built to bring the best of Microsoft to life,’ says Brett Ostrum, Microsoft corporate vice president for Surface devices.

Microsoft plans to make a host of new Surface devices, including the Pro 12-inch, Laptop 13-inch and a Surface Mouse, available on Oct. 13 in select markets.

The Pro 12-inch starts at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $1,149.99 while the Laptop 13-inch starts at $1,199 MSRP, according to the Redmond, Wash.-based technology giant. Surface Mouse starts at $79.99. All three devices will be available to commercial customers through the Surface for Business program.

Microsoft disclosed the new thin, light Windows PCs as part of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2026, which runs through Thursday in Maui, Hawaii. The new Pro and Laptop devices are built on Snapdragon X2 Plus processors.

The new devices follow up on Microsoft’s July release of enterprise and commercial versions of its new 13-inch Surface Pro and 13.8-inch and 15-inch Surface Laptop options with X2 processors.

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The new Pro and Laptop options were designed with 18 percent more efficient battery performance, 60 percent faster graphics and 95 percent faster on-device AI while maintaining their lightweight designs, Brett Ostrum, Microsoft corporate vice president for Surface devices, said in a statemen

“Surface is hardware built to bring the best of Microsoft to life—Windows, Copilot and Microsoft 365 experiences that make a PC feel more useful, more personal and more responsive,” Ostrum said.

John Richards, vice president of engineering at Tampa, Fla.-based AVI-SPL—a Microsoft Managed Partner and No. 57 on CRN’s 2026 Solution Provider 500—told CRN in a recent interview that AI has been transforming customer conversations around the modern conference room.

Microsoft’s Teams collaboration application has become a foundational platform for customer meeting rooms, with the Copilot AI application adding more value to Teams and opening up new experiences around voice identification and ways to gather data and insight from meetings, he said.

“There’s an immense opportunity in workplace transformation,” Richards said. “Everybody’s in a different place in the spectrum right now as to where they’re at in solving that [setup optimization] problem and who their power users are and the change management activities that need to happen to truly get the most out of this.”

Microsoft Expands Surface Portfolio

The Snapdragon X2 chip and Microsoft’s Windows operating system enable users to run AI on the device, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, according to Microsoft. Users can choose the approach that provides lower latency, reduced dependence on cloud calls and tokens, and greater data privacy.

The new Pro and Laptop promise up to 17 percent faster performance for Microsoft Office productivity workloads, up to 18 percent more efficient battery performance, more than 60 percent faster graphics performance and up to 95 percent faster local AI inferencing on the neural processing unit (NPU). Neither device has a fan.

And both of them are 25 percent brighter with 500-nit, 3-to-2 aspect ratio PixelSense touch screens and a new black color option.

Both devices have secured-core PC safeguards, Microsoft’s Pluton security processor built into the computer’s main CPU with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0, and other Microsoft-designed protections.

They have Surface Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), a modern replacement for traditional Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware, according to Microsoft.

Solution providers and IT teams can leverage the Surface Tools for Business suite for managing, protecting, supporting and recovering devices throughout their life cycles, according to Microsoft. That suite includes the Surface Management Portal, Surface Support Portal, Surface IT Toolkit and Surface Repair Tool.