The next generation of Surface for Business is almost here. Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, Powered by Snapdragon® X2 Series Processors, bring on-device AI into the everyday work your teams already do. This is an early look. Devices start shipping in July, so consider this the heads-up rather than the order form.
We’ve watched a lot of “AI laptop” announcements come and go. Most of them ask you to change how you work to fit the hardware. This generation does the opposite. The intelligence sits on the device, close to the work, and gets out of the way.
The silicon behind it
The headline is the silicon. The Surface Pro for Business 13-inch and the Surface Laptop for Business in 13.8-inch and 15-inch now run on Snapdragon® X2 Series Processors with an integrated 80 TOPS Qualcomm® HexagonTM NPU. That’s a dedicated chip for AI work, capable of running select tasks locally on the device rather than sending everything to the cloud.
That local processing matters for two reasons your teams will notice and your IT leads will appreciate. Lower latency, so AI-assisted tasks feel immediate. And more control over where data goes, because workloads can stay on the device.
A few of the experiences this enables on these Copilot+ PCs:
- Click to do uses the NPU to read text or images on screen and suggest the next step in your workflow.
- Recall (preview) captures contextual snapshots of your desktop so you can find almost anything you’ve seen by describing it in your own words.
- Improved Windows search finds files, settings, text and images from a plain description. No exact file names required.
- Live captions offers real-time speech translation from 40+ languages into English, and 25+ into simplified Chinese.
For teams building their own AI workflows, Foundry on Windows, Copilot Studio and Copilot Agents are all supported
Built for a full working day
The other practical win is battery life. The X2 architecture is built for efficiency, which means all-day battery on a single charge and the kind of connectivity that keeps up with hybrid work: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and Bluetooth LE.
Security that starts before Windows does
For the people responsible for the fleet, the security story is worth a closer look. These are Secured-core PCs with Windows 11 protections on by default. A Microsoft Pluton security processor anchors keys and credentials at the hardware level, supporting virtualisation-based security, memory integrity and BitLocker encryption. Windows Hello with Enhanced Sign-in Security helps reduce credential risk.
Management stays familiar. Surface IT Toolkit, the Surface app and Surface Management Portal handle the day-to-day, with firmware-level control through DFCI and Intune, and recovery managed through Intune and Microsoft Entra ID.
Coming in July 2026
Surface Pro and Surface Laptop for Business, Powered by Snapdragon® X2 Series Processors, ship from July. Now is the time to start planning rather than placing orders.
If you’re weighing up where these fit in your device refresh, that’s a conversation worth having before the rush. We’ve helped a lot of Australian organisations plan device transitions, and the ones that go smoothly tend to start early.
Talk to our team about what the new Surface for Business range could mean for your fleet.
The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop for Business devices are available from July 2026.
Interested in what this could mean for your device fleet?
Get in touch with the ASI Solutions team to learn more.
