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**The Biggest Update for Windows Ever**

This might be the biggest update for Windows ever.

So there's a lot to talk about here. Not only a brand new lineup of the Surface Pro, as well as the Surface Laptop, but on top of that, a huge update to not only the software side but also what you can do with Windows.

**Key Features and Updates**

There are a few things that we're going to talk about today. Copilot+ PCs are a big one. But beyond that, it is a fundamental sort of rewrite of Windows and what you can do with Windows.

It is a brand-new chip, with the Snapdragon X Elite, and on top of that, a lot of very cool new features. Now, I'll be honest with you, going into this event, I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to really try to wrap my head around things, and there was clearly a big AI sort of reckoning coming to Windows.

**Thoughtful and Cool Features**

That sounds nefarious, but there's a lot of cool features that could have come. And what we've seen here is something that's a little bit more thoughtful, maybe, than I had originally expected. And a lot of very cool features that are being enabled by not only the Snapdragon X Elite silicon but also the way that Windows is sort of evolving.

Because, I think, a lot of rumors going into today were that we're gonna see [insert something here, as it seems like the text was cut off].

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- This might be the biggestupdate for Windows ever.So there's a lot to talk about here.Not only a brand newlineup of the Surface Pro,as well as the SurfaceLaptop, but on top of that,a huge update to notonly the software sidebut also what you can do with Windows.So there's a few things thatwe're gonna talk about today.Copilot+ PCs are a big one.But beyond that, it is afundamental sort of rewriteof Windows and what youcan do with Windows.It is a brand-new chip,with the Snapdragon X Elite,and on top of that, a lotof very cool new features.Now, I'll be honest withyou, going into this event,I've spent the last couple of weekstrying to really try towrap my head around things,and there was clearly abig AI sort of reckoningcoming to Windows, andthat sounds nefarious,but there's a lot of coolfeatures that could have come.And what we've seen hereis something that's a littlebit more thoughtful, maybe,than I had originally expected.And a lot of very coolfeatures that are being enabledby not only the Snapdragon X Elite siliconbut also the way thatWindows is sort of evolvingbecause, I think, a lotof rumors going into todaywhere that we're gonna see,"Oh, Windows 12 and this and that,"and that's not what we're seeing, right?This is Windows 11, but itis a much, much bigger updatethan it might look like on the Surface.Get it? I made a Surface pun.There are a lot of takeaways,but one of the biggestthings to understandis the new name, Copilot+ PCs.Thankfully, it's a reallyclear, easy-to-understand namethat definitely won't confuseanyone. (clearing throat)Except, like, everyone whoalready bought a Copilot PC.That doesn't count anymore, need Copilot+.But here's the thing, thisis a new class of laptopsthat you're gonna be hearing a lot aboutin the coming months.So the Copilot and the AI stuffis absolutely a bigcomponent of everything.But as far as I'm concerned,an equally big part is what enables it:The Snapdragon X Elite.Now, Qualcomm has beenmaking chips for Windowsfor a few years now.They haven't been all that great.You know, the promise is good.You know, all-day batterylife, 5G built-in,good performance.Except that the good performancereally wasn't very good.Now, part of this is down tothe fact that the 8cx linefrom before just was kindof generally underpowered.An equally big issue,though, was with apps.Probably the biggest differencewith Snapdragon chips is the architecture.Unlike the x86 backbone that Inteland AMD have been using fordecades, Snapdragon uses ARM,which is the standard onMacs, phones, and tablets,but it hasn't reallygained traction on the PC.That app support reallyis the big problem.Every Windows app, since the dawn of time,has been made with x86 in mind.And unlike Apple,who had the luxury of justannouncing to the worldthat the Mac was switchingto Apple silicon,and if you wanted to stay onMac, you had to figure it out.Well, in the end,Microsoft still haveto support everything.Qualcomm is not replacing Intel or AMD,they are all going to coexist.So Microsoft approaching this in two ways:One is just to encourage developersto support ARM processors,such as the Snapdragon X Elite.Now, this is the ideal setupto get the most performance,and it does seem like theymade some decent headway here.A lot of major apps, such asChrome, Photoshop, and Resolve,and many, many more, eitherhave already added supportor are currently working on it.Now, Microsoft made a veryinteresting claim to methat 90% of average useminutes would be native.That sounds great dependingon what kind of user you are.Because apps that are not optimizedinclude basically every game everand years and years of older appsthat either just aren'tever going to be updatedor maybe they just havetoo small of a teamto deal with ARM just yet.So for that, there is the Prism emulator.Now, this is very similar innature to the Rosetta 2 layerthat Apple use to do the exactsame thing on the Mac side,emulating older Intelapps on Apple silicon.And in fact, Microsoft actuallyclaimed that performanceis essentially the same as Rosetta.So what this does is essentially emulatepretty much any older app ona Snapdragon-powered device.Now, this isn't strictlya brand-new thing.x86 and x64 emulation for ARMhas been a thing for a little while,but it's been a significantlyworse experience.This is for a couple of reasons.The emulation left a little bitof performance on the table,and the previous chipswere, well, kind of slow.Both of these things have been improved,meaning that, accordingto Microsoft, at least,thanks to the raw power of XElite and improved emulation,unoptimized apps shouldperform roughly on parwith a last-generation Core i7.Now, of course, I definitely wanna spendsome hands-on time for myselfbecause I'm almost positivethat there'll be some weird edge casesor apps that will work or whatever.But in theory, as long asapps run pretty quickly,it'll be essentiallyseamless to the end user.And when you happen to berunning an optimized app,which more and more arecoming online every day,they'll be just that much quicker.All of this is a lot of work,but the upside is significant.You should be getting the performancebut also 5G built into some devicesand importantly, significantlybetter battery life.So I'm here with the Surface Pro,and let me give you a little demoof some of the AI features.So there are three mainones to talk about.The first and probably themost impressive is Recall.Now, Recall requires alittle bit of explanation.So the way that recall worksis that using the power of the NPU,it is always paying attentionto what you're doing,is going to help you find stuffthat you've done in the past.Now, that sounds reasonable enough.Maybe a little bit creepy. Butlet me show you how it works,and I'll show you how you don't have to betoo concerned, (laughs) hopefully.So, this is Recall.So, this is the basic page,so I can scroll through.And the neat part is, as I scroll back,I can see pretty mucheverything I've done.Now, this is obviously notmy device, this is a demo,but you can see I cango back to yesterday,I can go back to the daybefore, the day before.This will save for as long as you want,provided that you havethe storage space for it.So, the way this works is that the NPUis taking a screenshot ofwhatever's on your screenevery little while.So it's smart, so it's going to be ableto only take a screenshotwhen it detects motion.But what it does is it can determinewhatever I am looking at.So, this is inside ofan Excel spreadsheet.So if I wanted to, I'd copyany text or whatever over,or I can just automaticallyopen it up using this button,and it will pull that exact file up.So the way to think about thisis the computer's constantlykeeping a record of what you're doing,and say I want to go backand find something I didtwo or three days agoor a week or a month ago,theoretically, it will do it.So, say I want to go look for bread.I know that I was looking atsome photos of breadlast week or whatever.Well, you can see justhow fast it shows up.So, I have a couple of different matches.I have text match, so I couldpull up any of these things,and the word "bread" was listed.So you can see here itautomatically highlights that,so I can find that.It'll also give visual matches.So, if I go right here,I can see that it can tellthat this is a photo of bread.Now, this, I don'tprobably need to tell you,is a really cool idea.Because it is constantlytaking screenshotsof your actual system,you can do this for chats,you can do this for websites,you can do this for apps.Pretty much anything thatWindows can take a screenshot of,it can save here.Now, probably big question you have is,"Yikes, that's kind of creepy."Now, there's certainly someprivacy concerns with this,but let me explain to youthe way I understand it,and maybe it might make youfeel better, or maybe it won't.When you come up here,to the options menu,you can go into the settings.So it's actually built intoyour privacy and security.There are a number of settingsthat you have to play with.So, first of all, you canjust turn this feature off.Now, this is going to beonly on Copilot+ deviceswith the NPU.So the reason for thatis that this is allhappening locally on device.So, none of this goes up to the internet,Microsoft can't seeit, it's all encrypted.You can imagine a lot of privacy concernsif that was not the case.So, first of all, youcan just turn this off.Second of all, you have theability for the storage,and you can change that.So right now, with the lasttwo weeks, or whatever,it's only taking about 56 megabytes.And the reason for that,it is not doing a constantvideo recording of your screen.It takes a screenshot every little while.It's not always taking screenshots.So the way it works iswhen it determines that there'ssome new text on screen,that there's enoughpixels that have changed,it'll take a quickscreenshot and save that.But if you want,you can set the maximumstorage for your snapshots.I was told that 25 gigs,depending on how much you use your system,could be several monthsof content, which is cool.But you can change thatto be whatever you want,so you can go up to 150 gigs if you want.On top of that, you can alsodelete anything you want.So, say you were just doingsomething on your system,you don't wanna keep the snapshot,well you can delete thelast hour, last day,last month, whatever you wanna do.And importantly,and something I would 100%do, is set some filters.So you can say, "Hey, don'ttake snapshots of Edge."I don't want you to seewhat I'm doing on Edge"because if you see that I'm watching"hours and hours of Denki videos,"then I don't want anyone to know that."So, I'm gonna go ahead and block out Edge.Don't take any screenshots.On top of that, if you wannabe a little bit more specific,you can add specific websites.So, I'm gonna add YouTube.Don't keep track of myYouTube search history.Thank you very much.And as long as you're usinga browser that's supported,it will not do that.This is a big feature.Honestly, one of the biggerfeatures that this enables.And I understand thatthere's probably gonna bea lot of people who areconcerned about thisfrom a privacy perspective.The way I understand it ishappening 100% on-device.At no point does any of thisinformation go to the cloud.So it is encrypted foryou on your local device.On top of that, you can use it as muchor as little as you want.We will see how robust the system is.I would be completely lying to youif I said that I was1,000% confident in it,at day one, right?But this is a feature that, I think,has a lot of practical benefits.If I wanna go backthrough and find an emailthat I was working ona couple of weeks ago.If I want to find a screenshot.Or I just literally wannatype in the word "car,"'cause I know I watched acar video three weeks ago,and it will find that,like, that's a really powerful feature.Paint is not the mostexciting app in the world,however, it's actuallygot a major new featurein Cocreator.So the way this works is really neat.So, again, this isrunning locally on device.So if I want to, I can just say,"Car in a tunnel at sunset."So, normally, and you've beenable to do this in the past,you can just put in a prompt like that,and you'll get something spit out.But the way this works insteadis it actually uses thatin addition to what you want to draw.So if I start drawing this...I'm gonna have a lot ofconfidence in my drawing ability.Okay. So, if I give that just a second,what you'll see here is that my scribbleis obviously terrible,but on this side, thisis actually not bad.The idea here is that not onlyis this being done in device,so this is using the NPU of the system.The only reason you actually needan internet connection forthis is a kind of silly one.They wanna make sure that you're notdoing any nefarious-ness with this.So what happens is whenyou give it the prompt,it goes out to the serverto make sure that you'renot asking it to do anythingtoo nefarious, but shall we say?So you do actually need aninternet connection for this,but all the actual processingis happening on device.So if I turn that creativity back up,you can see that the imagethat I'm getting here,even though this is a terrible scribble,look at that, that looks sick!That is incredibly cool!So if I actually clickit, boom, there we go.Live captions is a Windows-level featurethat, again, leveraging the powerof the NPU on board of the system,allows you to caption anythingthat Windows can hear.So, let me actuallyshow you how this works.So, I'm going to turn on microphone audio,and if you look at top here,you will now tell you what I'm saying.So, hello, my name is Austin,and this is what it looks likeas you see the live captionsbeing put onto the screen at this time.The cool part about thisis that not only does itwork with my microphone,it obviously will work withanything that I'm listening to.Junk that's refurbishedthat also doesn't work.So the way this works is really cool,is able to use that,and importantly, it willdo live translation.So we got a demo earlier of someonewho fluently has movedbetween English and Spanish,it pauses, like, 1/2 a second,and immediately startedtranslating that Spanish.These are just some of thethings that are made possiblewith an NPU.You gonna hear that so much.But the idea that youhave real AI horsepowerrunning locally on-deviceat super low power.So, if I actually pull up Task Manager,you can actually see howlittle power it takes.So my CPU, my GPUare essentially noteven being used, right?So I've got 4% on my CPU, 1% of my GPU,and the NPU is doing what, 3%, 4%?It's almost nothing tobe able to do somethingas you'd think complexas doing live captions and translation.So these are just some of the AI featuresthat are being built in.But importantly, these are just the onesthat are built into Windows on day one.Because the NPU is now afirst-class citizen in Windows,there are so many more thingsthat I'm sure will becoming down the pipeline,and, of course, so many third-party appsthat can leverage this kind of techto do all kinds of stuffwith almost no latency,and to be able to do it with theoreticallyquite a lot of security.As a baseline, Microsoft is brandingand spending a lot of money to promotethese as the gold standard of PCs.To get the Copilot+ branding,you'll need a couple of things:40 TOPS or more on your NPUand 16 gigabytes of RAM.Which, of course, you'll findon the new Surface models,as well as a number of otherOEMs who are also taking part.Now, as of right now,this basically means that thesystem needs to be poweredby a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite device,but soon, there will be otherSnapdragon and AMD options,as well as Intel cominga little later this year.Now, if 40 TOPS on your NPUdoesn't mean much to you,well, you're probably not alone.Honestly, it's probably worthme making an entire videobreaking down TOPS and,neural processors,and why you're gonna behearing these phraseseverywhere going forward.But the short answer is this:Just like how, in the past,when you're shopping for a PC,two of your biggest considerationswhen it comes to performanceare your CPU and your GPU,well, it's time to addthe NPU to that list.So, when it comes to hardware,there is a lot to go over.So, let's start with thesebrand-new Surface devices.So, we have two.We have the brand new Surface Pro.Technically, this isjust the new Surface Pro,although it is really the 11th gen,as well as we have the new Surface Laptop,which is the seventh generation.So, there is a much moresubstantial redesign of the Laptop.So, it now has a muchlarger screen-to-body ratio.You can see just howsmall these bezels are.And I'll be honest withyou, the 13.8-inch versionlooks sick.'Cause I've always likedthe Surface Laptop,but it's kind of been a little bit bigand chunky, but now...This is the 15.But even the 15 is significantly smaller.Now, what's really interestingabout both of these devicesis that they are Snapdragon only.In the past, there was alittle bit of a mix between.You could have AMD oncertain options, Intel,there was the 8cx before,all of that is gone.It is just Snapdragon X across the board.Now, both these devicesstart with the Plus,although, if you upgrade,you do get the Elite,which is basically the samechip, 10-core versus 12-core,a little bit of extra performance.Now, that, I think, is very tellingwhen it comes to howstrongly Microsoft feel,not only about the Copilot+ initiativebut also just about what they're gettingwith Qualcomm and Snapdragon.Because you can thinkabout the the conversationsthat are being had withsome of the other partners,such as AMD and Intel.And while there, of course,will be additional Copilot+ PCs,Snapdragon and Qualcomm, Ithink, should be very happythat they're getting this sort of shinebecause there's a lot of emphasison the Surfaces going Snapdragon first,at least with these devices.So, let me break it down.I'll go over the actual Pro itself.So you have a few options here.So there's an improved webcam.You also now have an OLED if you upgrade.So, the base model still is an LCD,but if you go up to the Elitemodel, you do get an OLED.There's also the actualkeyboard, which has been changed.So this version is theslightly higher-end version,which has, if I can carefully take it offwithout knocking it over, itactually works wirelessly now.So, there's actually three keyboards,which is slightly confusing.There's the base keyboard,there's the keyboard with the pen storage,and then there's this,which will allow you tonot only use it via Bluetooth,but it also folds up nice and neat here.It's a cool feature,although it's a littlebit on the pricey side.And I'll continue to state foreverthat I wish that every Surfacecame with the keyboard in the boxbecause I can't imagine who would buy thiswithout a keyboard.Now, outside of that,the hardware's actuallyrelatively similar looking on the Surface.It is still with a fan inside.It's actively cooled,even when you've gotthe Snapdragon silicon.But it makes sense, right?This one, straightforward.The Laptop, I think, is alittle bit more interesting.So you've got a reallynice port selection.So you've got a couple ofUSB4, you've got USB-A, AUX.Thank you for keeping the AUX.As well, as you've gotyourself the Surface Connector.And on the 15, you'vegot yourself a microSD.That alone is great.It also does have the upgraded touchpad,as does the high-endkeyboard on the Surface Pro.You've got a quite nicekeyboard, I will say.On the Laptop, it feels pretty good.And the display.So it's 120Hz display.I'll be honest with you,when I first saw it,I was like, "Oh, man,that OLED looks great."And then they told me, "Nope, it's LCD."I am legitimately surprised.It is a very nice-lookingdisplay, very bright.If I crank up this brightness,it is going to probablyclip the camera real hard.Like, it is properly bright.Now, a big reason why thisis LCD, I think, is price.Both the Surface Pro, as wellas the Laptop, start at 999.And that's not some, like,super basic configuration.They come with these Snapdragon X Plusand importantly, 16 gigabytes of RAMand 256 gigs of storage.One of my traditionally biggest issueswith the Surface lineup hasbeen that the base modelswere next to uselessbecause eight gigs of RAMis just not enough for anybody,especially when it comes to Windows.So both of these modelscome with 16 gigs, 256.Honestly, a very usable spec.Of course, it'll be alittle bit more expensiveonce you start upgrading the SSDsand you go up to the OLEDand blah, blah, blah.But, like, you're not gonna be able to geteither of these configurationsin any kind of, like, terribleunusable state, right?And I think that issomething to be applauded,even though upgrade pricingcould be a little bit cheaper.Something else I think isreally worth mentioningis upgradeability and repairability.So, the Surface Pro stillhas a little upgrade doorfor the SSD, which is nice.Now, the Surface Laptop has no such door.It does have an upgradeable SSDthat will void your warranty.But you can actually get at it,of course, by voiding your warranty,so you should do it 366 days later.The feet are actually magnetic.So instead of using, like,glue to keep the feet on,they're actually magnetic.They come off, and thenthe screw's underneath,and you pop off that back panel.One of the only thingsI've actually removedis a little bit of a weird one.It no longer supports thepen on the Surface Laptop.Now, I think a big reason for thatis that you actually had to havethese little tiny wires acrossthe screen for the actual penfor the capacitive touch and whatnot.It's still touchscreen, mind you,but it is no longercompatible with the pen.So it's just a small note.Of course, if you reallywanna use the pen,you should be using theactual Surface Pro 9."9?" 11.Yikes, I'm a couple years behind.Now, the last thing I wanna talk aboutwhen it comes to hardwareis the actual breadthand depth of the ecosystem.Yeah.So, on top of these Surface devices,which, of course, we'regetting an early hands-on of,there are going to bea number of other OEMs,including Samsung,including Lenovo and Dell,and all kinds of people, ASUS,who are gonna be announcing devicesprobably around the timethis video goes live.The only one I could personally speak tois the Lenovo Yoga 7X.Now, hypothetically,I may have been able tospend some time with thisbefore the embargo,and this is also aSnapdragon-powered device.Now, my sample is very, very, very early,so I'm gonna not speak on it a lot.Besides the fact that alot of these same features,a lot of these same sort of advantages,in using the Snapdragonsilicon, do come across to that.So even though these Surfaceslook very impressive.And I will say that the price pointis worth really reiterating, right?I think they're being very aggressivewith $1,000 configurations of laptopsthat are actually good, unlike previously,where you had to spend$1,300, $1,400, $1,500to get something usable.But I will say that thatYoga 7X, stay tuned.I'm gonna be taking a look at thatonce it's not quite so(laughs) in such beta form.But the time that I've spentusing the Snapdragon X Elite,it's the real deal.I think that's kind ofsort of my general thought.That there's a lot of performance there.You have obviously all thecool Windows AI features.But on top of that, itjust feels snappy and fluidin a way that typically you only getwhen you're running with, youknow, a big beefy CPU and GPU,and yada, yada, yada, right?Like, what you're gettinghere is performance.You're getting a lot ofreally cool features.And importantly, devices that the fansare almost never kicking on.A battery that is actuallylegitimately all day.So when Apple Silicon dropped in 2020,it was an absolute game changer.It wasn't just about the performance leap,which is really substantial,it was also about theincredible battery life,paired with the fact thatyou got full performanceeven when you're unplugged.As much as you may or maynot wanna actually use a Mac,since 2020, MacBooks reallyhave set a new benchmark.Now, are these Snapdragon-powered systemsgoing to give us that same leap?Well, in all honesty, probablynot, at least, immediately.My understanding is that you'll still seesome power management from Windowswhen you're running on battery,which will cut performancea bit when you're unplugged.But this is a massive step forward.The competition betweenQualcomm, Intel, AMD, and Appleis an arms race where we, the consumers,are the real winners.In the past few years,we've seen more improvementsto laptop performanceand battery life than in theentire decade beforehand.And believe me, when I saythat Microsoft didn't rebuildhuge chunks of Windowsjust for a few random Snapdragon laptops.It really does seem likeARM-powered Windows devicesare the future, and we'lllikely see everyone from NVIDIAto AMD join the partybefore too much longer.I mean, who doesn't want a laptopwith performance and battery life?Now, are there concerns?Absolutely.My hands-on time with the X Elitehas been limited by veryunfinished software and hardware.So, while my initial impressionsare really promising,we absolutely have to waitfor the final productsbefore I can make a definitive judgment.There are a lot of questions,and there's also a lotof legitimate concerns,specifically when it comes tothe emulated app performanceand really how quickly developersactually want to embrace ARM.Not to mention, there's probablygonna be a lot of hesitancywith a lot of, I don't wannasay, like, average consumers,but, like, a lot of peopleare used to buying laptopswith an Intel or an AMD sticker on it,and as soon as you dropa Snapdragon badge,well, that doesn't necessarily mean a lotto a lot of people.So, my expectation is that itmight be a little bit of aslow ramp on these things.But here's the thing, Microsoftis betting big on ARM,and they're really the last holdouts.Mobile and Mac have beenswitched over for a while,and it seems natural that Windowsis the last domino to fall here.Now, I'm not saying youshould drop everythingand toss your existing laptopin the garbage just yet,especially because Intel and AMDare not only improvingthings at an impressive rate,but they also will havetheir own Copilot+ PCsthat have all the AI goodiesthat you ever hoped for.But here's the thing, this is a big dealthat is really worth keeping an eye onbecause things are moving atan incredibly rapid rate.So that, my friends, isa look at what you've gotwith these brand-new Copilot+ PCs.If you really break itdown, it's very simple:These devicesare going to have significantlybetter battery life,they're more efficient,they're going to run cooler, quieter,and there's still gonna be tonsand tons of performance on tap.On top of that, there's alsoa huge amount of new featureswhen it comes to the Windows AI stuff.So, you know, you thinkabout some of the stuff,you know, this is sortof the one of, right?Like, we're gonna see more and more appstake advantage of the NPU.We're also going to see moreand more features in Windowsto take advantage of this sort ofoverall architecture change.You know, there's a lotto sort of wrap your head around here,but sort of at a core level,this is a very big moment for Windows.It's a very big moment for Microsoft.And while I'm sure thereare gonna be peoplewho are like, "Hey, whywasn't it Windows 12?"I think the main reason forthat is that you kind of do needthis NPU to enable these features.And I can't imagine Microsoftbringing out Windows 12,and it only works on thesebrand-new systems, right?So I think that's the reasonwhy we've seen this first step.But you gotta assume that thenext major version of Windowsis gonna take all of this for grantedand add a ton of additional features.So let me know what youthink in the comments below.I'm very curious.Make sure to subscribe to the channeland ringling the dingling button.But until next time, my friends,I'm gonna go creativelyborrow some devices.You know, it's fair game if Iwant to do an extended test,and I'll see you back at the officewhen I am, you know,able to (clears throat)give you a full review of the devicesthat I'm gonna give back, eventually.