The best laptops and 2-in-1s to give as gifts

You'll see lots of laptop deals in the coming weeks: doorbusters for notebooks under $500, maybe under $400 or $300 if you're lucky. And while there's no shame in putting on three layers in the cold on Black Friday morning only to elbow someone i...

The Engadget Podcast: Is Microsoft making better PCs than Apple?

Microsoft dropped a load of Surfaces on us last week, each impressive in their own right. We were wowed by the Surface Pro X, Pro 7 and Laptop 3 -- and of course, we can't wait to hear more about the dual-screen Surface Neo and Duo. It's hard not to...

Here’s everything Microsoft announced at its Surface event

Microsoft held its annual Surface event today, but you definitely couldn't call it a by-the-numbers presentation. The tech veteran unveiled a flood of new devices, and updates to its existing Surface Laptop and Surface Pro lines were really just the...

Surface Laptop 3 hands-on: Bigger, yet more refined

While we loved the original Surface Laptop, last year's sequel wasn't a huge improvement design-wise. The Surface Laptop 3 is another story entirely: there's a larger 15-inch model with a custom AMD chip and Radeon Vega graphics. It may not have the...

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 packs a 10th-gen Intel CPU

Microsoft has good news if you just want a straightforward portable PC instead of one of its more exotic models: there's a new Surface Laptop in town. The Surface Laptop 3 shares much of the familiar design (more on that in a bit), but there's consid...

Microsoft will offer a 15-inch version of the Surface Laptop 3

For the first time, Microsoft plans to offer a 15-inch version of the Surface Laptop. In addition to offering variants with Intel's 10th-gen Ice Lake chips, Microsoft worked with AMD to develop a custom Ryzen mobile CPU for the Surface Laptop 3. The...

What we hope to see at Microsoft’s Surface event

Like clockwork, Microsoft is gearing up to announce its latest batch of Surface devices tomorrow. We've already gotten a preview of some hardware, thanks to a recent leak: it looks like there's a new Surface Pro, a sleeker ARM-based Surface and a new...

New Microsoft Surface lineup leaks ahead of Wednesday’s unveiling

Wondering what's in store for the Microsoft Surface event on Wednesday? Evan Blass has posted renderings of several devices, including a Surface Pro 7 that brings a USB-C connector instead of Mini DisplayPort, and 10th-gen Intel Core CPUs inside. He...

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 may come in a 15-inch model

To date, you've had to buy a Surface Book 2 if you've wanted a Microsoft-made laptop larger than 13.5-inches. Soon, though, you might not have to spend quite so much to get a large surface. The historically accurate WinFuture claims that Microsoft wi...