Today Microsoft has introduced the Surface Neo,
which is an obvious spiritual successor to that concept. It has two 9"
touchscreens, a 360-degree hinge, pen support, and bezels - many of them. Each
side is 5.6mm thick, so when folded you're going to hold something that's
11.2mm thick. It weighs 1.3kg. There's Gorilla Glass of some sort on top of
"the thinnest LCD ever created", according to Panos Panay, chief
product officer of Microsoft's Devices group.
The Surface Neo is supposedly launching in about a
year from now, to be available for the holiday shopping season in 2020. It runs
Windows 10X, which is designed specifically for dual screen devices, and is
powered by an Intel Lakefield processor, with an "11th Gen" graphics
engine that controls both screens.
The new, thinner Surface Pen attaches to the back,
while the keyboard is separate to the Neo but attaches magnetically to the
back, so you can 'fold' it out and set it on top of one of the screens. When
you do that you'll see extra input options like emoji in the extra screen space
that's left, or use that as a trackpad.
