Microsoft's new Surface range of personal computers was announced last month at the company's annual event. One of the new laptops, known as the Surface Laptop Go 3, is an incredibly portable laptop that packs a ton of performance into a compact form factor. Microsoft has confirmed that the Surface Laptop Go 3 is coming to India, so let's discuss the features, pricing and pre-order details here.

Under the hood, the new Surface Laptop Go 3 is powered by an Intel 12th Gen Core i5-1235U processor built on the Alder Lake mobile architecture. This i5-1235U has a total of 2 P-cores & 8 E-cores, and with hyper-threading technology, you get a 10-core, 12-thread configuration on this CPU. This processor has Intel's hybrid performance architecture: there are P-cores focused on performance and E-cores focused on efficiency. The RAM can be configured up to a total of 16 GB LPDDR5.

This laptop features the iconic surface design: premium material usage with minimal and aesthetically pleasing appearance. The Surface Laptop Go 3 features an Omnisonic speaker design that supports Dolby Audio Premium. The screen is a 12.4-inch Pixelsense with touch support, 1536 x 1024 resolution and a maximum brightness of 320 nits. The Surface Laptop provides up to 15 hours of battery life and supports fast charging. It's also a super-portable laptop at just 1.13kg. Finally, the laptop comes with a 256GB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and its port selection includes a USB 3.1 (Type-A) port, a USB 3.2 Type-C port, a 3.5mm headphone jack and also the proprietary Surface Connect- the gate.

The consumer model Surface Laptop Go 3 starts from Rs 80,999 in India. This is for the 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD variant that also comes with Windows 11 Home. Microsoft provides other variants, which we have listed below. This new Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 will be available for pre-order starting today, October 19, 2023. The laptop will be available through all authorized retailers, such as Vijay Sales, Reliance Digital, Croma and Amazon.