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Microsoft's new Surface Pro, its first hybrid Copilot PC tablet, doesn't look much different than its predecessors. It's still a sleek and sturdy tablet with a kickstand. But the screen looks a bit more impressive, thanks to slimmer bezels, and it's potentially more useful on the go when paired with the $350 Surface Pro Flex keyboard, which lets you type wirelessly. As a Copilot PC though, its true value lies under the hood, thanks to a 45TOPS neural processing unit in Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips.
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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-surface-pro-copilot-hands-on-slimmer-bezels-and-ai-smarts-185349396.html?src=rss
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 Apple today released iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1, minor updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last September. The 17.5.1 updates come a week after the launch of iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5.
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Our video team got some hands-on time with both of these laptops at a Lenovo presentation. Check out their initial impressions in the video below!
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6
I'm gonna start with the ThinkPad, because I like ThinkPads and I'm writing this article, so there. The T series is a staple for businesses and anyone who likes good keyboards and the signature Trackpoint (the red mouse nub thing), so it's hardly surprising that this model can fit in with other Lenovo designs even while packing some big changes under the hood. With its standard clamshell design and unassuming branding, plus Lenovo's more common lid flair, it has looks best described as "familiar."
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 As part of Microsoft's big push into AI, Lenovo is releasing two new Windows 11 laptops featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip. First up is the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, which is essentially Lenovo's most popular enterprise notebook with an Arm-based chip with a beefy NPU instead of an x86 processor from Intel or AMD. But the more interesting of the two is the Yoga Slim 7x, which features an all-new chassis that's designed to take better advantage of the X Elite's blend of performance and power efficiency. And while Lenovo won't say it outright, the latter is basically the company's attempt at making a MacBook Air rival for Windows.
Before we get too deep into the specifics, it's important to note that I tried out a pre-production version of the Slim 7x that didn't have any of Microsoft's new Copilot features, so this is strictly an early look at the laptop's hardware. But from what I saw, there's a lot to like.
Photo by Sam Rutherford/Engadget
The laptop's highlight features are its 14-inch 3K 90Hz OLED display and its sleek aluminum chassis. The screen features a color gamut that covers 100 percent of DCI-P3 while delivering up to 500 nits of brightness. Above the display, there's Lenovo's signature communication tab, which allows the Slim 7x to support an FHD webcam plus IR sensors for Windows Hello along with quad mics, but without needing to have super thick bezels.
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As Nvidia says on its blog post, RTX Video combines both algorithm-powered upscaling (boosting the resolution of each video frame by dynamically filling in the intervening space) and translating standard dynamic range frames into high dynamic range with intelligently-boosted color vibrancy and contrast. Your videos should look better even if you don't have an HDR-compatible screen to show them. As we said when we tested the feature at its launch: Nvidia's RTX Video Super Resolution is like going from VHS to Blu-ray.
RTX Video is available on any desktop or laptop with an RTX 30-series card or newer, and you can
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