Microsoft shrinks its Surface Laptop down to 13 inches, priced at $899

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is announcing a slightly smaller version of its popular Surface Laptop today. The $899 Surface Laptop 13-inch is Arm-powered like the larger Surface Laptop 7, and shares a similar design with some changes to the specifications and ports. I got to spend some time with the new Surface Laptop 13-inch model at Microsoft’s headquarters last month, and while there aren’t any huge changes here, the smaller form factor is a lot more tempting than the 13.8- or 15-inch Surface Laptop models. The Surface Laptop 13-inch will ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus 8-core processor, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. This chip is Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X series variant that’s designed to push down the prices of laptops, and it includes eight cores instead of the 10 usually found on the X Plus. That should result in around 16 hours of battery life during active web ... Read full article.