The 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop get brought up to speed with Qualcomm’s latest processors. And there’s a new Surface Mouse with haptics.

I’m the first born in my family, so I haven’t experienced this feeling directly, but my younger brother tells me it wasn’t all that fun when I would get a gift that he was too little to receive along with his big brother (like the time I got my first bike for my 6th birthday while he was still circling our cul-de-sac on a Big Wheel). On Wednesday, Microsoft granted upgrades to its littlest Surface models, which lets them two-wheel around the neighborhood with the bigger models.

The 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop have each been upgraded to Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 series processors, bringing them in line with the larger 13-inch Surface Pro and 13.8- and 15-inch Surface Laptops that received the Snapdragon X2 jolt a few months ago. 

The second-generation Qualcomm processors offer a tick up in application performance and battery life, a larger leap in graphics performance and a giant jump in local AI capabilities, according to Microsoft. My tests with other laptops based on Snapdragon X2 series processors support Microsoft’s estimates.

Along with the two new Surface models, Microsoft also announced a new Surface Mouse that offers haptic feedback. Let’s have a look at the two Surface updates and new mouse.

The second-gen 12-inch Surface Pro trots out the same design as the inaugural model, but inside it has moved to a six-core Snapdragon X Plus X2P-42-100.

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