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CoPilot+ PCs Could Finally Become More Affordable Soon – Here’s What’s Coming

Microsoft has been pitching its new line of Copilot+ PCs as the future of Windows laptops, and for the most part, we agree. But it’s tough to make a computer a mass-market seller when it costs upwards of $1,000 (sometimes considerably more). Fortunately, that could soon be addressed with a new line of much more affordable Copilot+ PCs that are reportedly on the verge of launch.

That’s because well-known tech tipster Evan Blass just a slide shared from Qualcomm, detailing what we can expect from the next-generation Snapdragon X chips that will power the upcoming Copilot+ PC models.

According to the slide, we could see octa-core chips with 1.7 TFLOPS of output, support for three 4K displays running at 60Hz, Wi-Fi 7, and 45 TOPS of artificial intelligence (AI) performance. The slide also notes that the chips will be made using a 4nm process and will come with 30MB of total cache.

A leaked slide from a Qualcomm presentation detailing new Snapdragon chips for use in Copilot+ PCs.

(Image credit: Qualcomm)

What was missing from the slide was any hint at pricing, but Blass filled that gap by saying that notebooks with Snapdragon X Plus chips will start at $800. That’s a significant savings over the current lineup, like the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, and could help make Copilot+ PCs much more accessible to a wider group of users.

What will they miss?

A Surface Laptop 7 on a table

(Image credit: Future/John Loeffler)

That lower price will apparently come from a few features that have been left out. The 1.7 TFLOPS output is noticeably lower than existing Copilot+ PCs, and that alone will probably explain a large part of the lower price. But if you’d rather have a more affordable machine, that might not be a problem.

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