How Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor

Before Microsoft releases a laptop to the public, it needs to enactment the instrumentality done its paces. That each happens wrong a windowless, warehouse-like laboratory connected the company's Redmond, Washington, campus, wherever the squad processing Surface devices programs robots to property their buttons thousands of times, pelts devices with vigor waves from elephantine antennas, and builds contraptions that driblet objects from progressively daring heights to spot whether the products tin clasp up.

Its latest laptop, the merchandise I'm present to see, truly needs to clasp up. The Surface Laptop Ultra isn't conscionable different high-end config of the Surface Laptop, it's the debut level …

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