My Surface Laptop Has Shipped

This morning, I received a shipping notification for the Surface Laptop I preordered, and it looks like it will arrive on time, on Tuesday, June 18, as promised.

Not that it matters: It’s being delivered to our place in Pennsylvania, while I’m here in Mexico through June 29. So I won’t get to see it until then.

“The order you placed on Friday, May 24, 2024 has shipped,” the email notification reads. “Click the track shipment link below to request updates and special delivery options. The charge should now be reflected in your account.” It’s a bit early for the tracking information, it just notes that the shipper created the label, and that UPS has not received the package yet.

As you may recall, I originally preordered a base 15-inch Surface Laptop, but then rethought things because of the high hardware requirements of the AI features. And so I changed my preorder to a black 15-inch Surface Laptop with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage.

I would have done things a bit differently if Microsoft allowed for more configuration options–the Sapphire (pale blue) option I prefer is not available on the 15-inch Surface Laptop at all, for starters–but the goal, in part, is to see whether this measures up to the quality of the MacBook Air 15-inch M3 I recently reviewed. Hope springs eternal.

In any event, with last night’s release of the initial stable version of Windows 11 version 24H2, it looks like the Copilot+ PC launch is back on track, meaning Microsoft and its PC maker partners will hit the promised June 18 release date, sans a preview version of Recall, of course.

I’m hoping/expecting to receive at least one Copilot+ PC review unit here in Mexico, so if all goes well, I’ll at least have some hands-on experience with these new PCs before I get home. Otherwise, I’ll have to check in on June 29.

More soon.