The Floor Professional lineup has a brand new member: meet the smaller Floor Professional with a 12-inch show, the corporate’s “thinnest and lightest Copilot+ PC” but, introduced alongside the brand new Floor Laptop computer 13-inch. The brand new mannequin sticks to the traditional Floor Professional system, working as a pill with a kickstand and a laptop computer with a removable keyboard. It debuts alongside the extra reasonably priced 13-inch Floor Laptop computer, confirming earlier stories about Microsoft making ready a extra compact Floor Professional.

Microsoft’s purpose right here is to present clients a extra reasonably priced and extra moveable gadget than the usual Floor Professional 11. The 12-inch Floor Professional prices $799 for the bottom configuration, and for this cash, you get a Home windows pill with a fanless 8-core Snapdragon X Plus processor, 16GB of reminiscence, and 256GB of UFS storage (not SSD). There’s additionally a dearer 512GB configuration.

Microsoft has additionally minimize some corners on the display aspect. The PixelSense LCD show is 12 inches diagonal and has a decision of two,196 x 1,464 (220 PPI). The refresh charge is 90Hz with 60Hz set as default.

Like all the opposite Copilot+ PCs, the brand new Floor Professional helps Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. It additionally has Qualcomm’s 45 TOPS NPU, which allows all of the AI experiences, equivalent to Recall, Click on To Do, picture era, and extra (they’re now publicly out there).

Ports embrace two USB 3.2 Kind-C for charging, knowledge switch, and show output. Microsoft says the pill can drive two 4K displays at 60Hz, plus it’s suitable with the Floor Thunderbolt 4 Dock and different equipment. The Floor Join is now not current as Microsoft is transferring absolutely to USB-C.

The battery is rated for as much as 16 hours of native video playback or 12 hours of energetic internet utilization. The 12-inch Floor Professional prices at as much as 45W, however the unlucky factor is that the charger is just not included. Microsoft not too long ago ditched the charger within the Floor Professional 11 for the European market, and it’s now doing it worldwide.

As for equipment, the Floor Professional helps the Floor Slim Pen 2 and different styluses that make the most of Microsoft Pen Protocol (MPP). You may cost the Slim Pen 2 on the again of the pill. As for the keyboard, the Floor Professional 12-inch keyboard ditched its charging dock however retained the backlight. It’s good to see Microsoft preserving this function, which was a serious criticism in different budget-friendly Floor units just like the Floor Laptop computer Go. Additionally, the keyboard now folds again fully flat for higher ergonomics.

The 12-inch Floor Professional is now out there for preorder for $799. Shipments start Could 20. On July 22, the pill may also be out there for enterprise clients, that includes Home windows 11 Professional, an anti-reflective show, and an NFC reader. If you’re fascinated with seeing how the Floor Professional 12-inch compares to the Floor Professional 11 spec-by-spec, take a look at our recent Specs Attraction article.