Microsoft is expected to announce new hardware at the upcoming Surface 2023 event on September 21, 2023. We expect their 2023 lineup to include the Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4, and Surface Laptop Go 3. Specs for these devices have surfaced online in a recent leak, so let's look at all the details.
The future of Surface is incredibly unclear with these new devices
Right off the bat, we're going to talk about one of the most exciting Surface laptops Microsoft makes – its Surface Laptop Studio. The rumored Surface Laptop Studio 2 is expected to get new Intel processors, and the leak specifically mentions the Intel Core i7-13800H.
This particular processor has a base TDP of 45W, and according to Intel, the maximum turbo power is 115W. The final turbo power limit of a CPU, when placed in a specific laptop, depends on what the computer manufacturer sets it to according to the cooling limitations. You can read more about the 13th generation Raptor Lake processor range for laptops here.
If we go by what Microsoft did under the hood of the predecessor PC (which has an i7-11370H), the Surface Laptop Studio 2 should increase to around ~50W. Compared to its predecessor, the rumored chip for the Surface Laptop Studio 2, the i7-13800H, comes with a total of 14 cores that have a configuration of 6 P-cores + 8 E-cores. It should increase up to 5GHz, but it will all depend on the upcoming Surface Laptop Studio 2′ cooling system.
