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Microsoft Surface is a series of touchscreen-based personal computers, tablets, and interactive whiteboards designed and developed by Microsoft, most of them running the Windows operating system.^[1]

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Accenture

Accenture plc is an American multinational professional services company headquartered in Dublin for tax reasons, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting.

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Acer Inc.

Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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An active pen (also referred to as active stylus) is an input device that includes electronic components and allows users to write directly onto the display of a computing device such as a smartphone, tablet computer or ultrabook.

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AI accelerator

An AI accelerator, deep learning processor or neural processing unit (NPU) is a class of specialized hardware accelerator or computer system designed to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, including artificial neural networks and computer vision.

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Alder Lake

Alder Lake is Intel's codename for the 12th generation of Intel Core processors based on a hybrid architecture utilizing Golden Cove performance cores and Gracemont efficient cores.

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All-in-one computer

An all-in-one computer (also called an AIO or all-in-one PC) is a type of personal computer that integrates the computer components, such as the CPU, monitor, and speakers, into a single unit.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Android 10

Android 10 (codenamed Android Q during development) is the tenth major release and the 17th version of the Android mobile operating system.

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Android 11

Android 11 is the eleventh major release and 18th version of Android, the mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google.

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API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Atom (system on a chip)

Atom is a system on a chip (SoC) platform designed for smartphones and tablet computers, launched by Intel in 2012.

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Audio and video interfaces and connectors

Audio connectors and video connectors are electrical or optical connectors for carrying audio or video signals.

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Avanade

Avanade is a global professional services company providing IT consulting and services focused on the Microsoft platform with artificial intelligence, business analytics, cloud, application services, digital transformation, modern workplace, security services, technology and managed services offerings.

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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.

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Biometrics

Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics and features.

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Blue screen of death

The blue screen of death (also known as BSoD, blue screen error, blue screen, fatal error or bugcheck, and officially known as a stop error) is a critical error screen displayed by Microsoft Windows.

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs).

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Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE, colloquially BLE, formerly marketed as Bluetooth Smart) is a wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, beacons, security, and home entertainment industries.

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Boy Genius Report

Boy Genius Report (also referred to as BGR) is a technology-influenced website and covers topics ranging from consumer gadgets, to entertainment, gaming, and science.

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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Collaboration

Collaboration (from Latin com- "with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together --> to complete a task or achieve a goal.

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Comparison of tablet computers

This is a list of tablet computers, grouped by intended audience and form factor. Microsoft Surface and Comparison of tablet computers are lists of mobile computers.

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Computer keyboard

A computer keyboard is a peripheral input device modeled after the typewriter keyboard which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars is the name of various international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC.

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David Pogue

David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter, and correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.

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DDR3 SDRAM

Double Data Rate 3 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR3 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with a high bandwidth ("double data rate") interface, and has been in use since 2007.

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DDR4 SDRAM

Double Data Rate 4 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR4 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory with a high bandwidth ("double data rate") interface.

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Dell

Dell Inc. is an American technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services.

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Digital pen

A digital pen is an input device which captures the handwriting or brush strokes of a user and converts handwritten analog information created using "pen and paper" into digital data, enabling the data to be utilized in various applications.

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Display device

A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people).

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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Farhad Manjoo

Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is an American journalist.

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February 2013 North American blizzard

The February 2013 North American blizzard, also known as Winter Storm Nemo and the Blizzard of 2013, was a powerful blizzard that developed from the combination of two areas of low pressure, primarily affecting the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada, causing heavy snowfall and hurricane-force winds.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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Foldable smartphone

A foldable smartphone (also known as a foldable phone or simply foldable) is a smartphone with a folding form factor.

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GeForce

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia and marketed for the performance market.

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Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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Graham Holdings

Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate holding company.

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Graphics card

A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

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Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

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Haswell (microarchitecture)

Haswell is the codename for a processor microarchitecture developed by Intel as the "fourth-generation core" successor to the Ivy Bridge (which is a die shrink/tick of the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture).

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HDMI

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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HP Inc.

HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing services.

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Hybrid drive

In computing, a hybrid drive (solid state hybrid drive – SSHD) is a logical or physical storage device that combines a faster storage medium such as solid-state drive (SSD) with a higher-capacity hard disk drive (HDD).

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Ice Lake (microprocessor)

Ice Lake is Intel's codename for the 10th generation Intel Core mobile and 3rd generation Xeon Scalable server processors based on the Sunny Cove microarchitecture.

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IEEE 802.11ac-2013

IEEE 802.11ac-2013 or 802.11ac is a wireless networking standard in the IEEE 802.11 set of protocols (which is part of the Wi-Fi networking family), providing high-throughput wireless local area networks (WLANs) on the 5 GHz band.

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IEEE 802.11be

IEEE 802.11be, dubbed Extremely High Throughput (EHT), is a wireless networking standard in the IEEE 802.11 set of protocols, which is designated by Wi-Fi Alliance.

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IEEE 802.11n-2009

IEEE 802.11n-2009, or 802.11n, is a wireless-networking standard that uses multiple antennas to increase data rates.

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IFixit

iFixit is an American e-commerce and how-to website that sells repair parts and publishes free wiki-like online repair guides for consumer electronics and gadgets.

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Infrared

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.

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Intel

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Intel Arc

Intel Arc is a brand of graphics processing units designed by Intel.

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Intel Xe

Intel Xe (stylized as Xe and pronounced as two separate letters, abbreviation for "exascale for everyone"), earlier known unofficially as Gen12, is a GPU architecture developed by Intel.

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Interactive whiteboard

An interactive whiteboard (IWB), also known as interactive board, interactive display, interactive digital board or smart board, is a large interactive display board in the form factor of a whiteboard.

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International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.

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IPad

The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.

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IPad Air 2

The iPad Air 2 is the second-generation iPad Air tablet computer designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced on October 16, 2014, alongside the iPad Mini 3, both of which were released on October 22, 2014.

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Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture)

Ivy Bridge is the codename for Intel's 22 nm microarchitecture used in the third generation of the Intel Core processors (Core i7, i5, i3).

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Jon M. Chu

Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Kaby Lake

Kaby Lake is Intel's codename for its seventh generation Core microprocessor family announced on August 30, 2016.

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Kilowatt-hour

A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.

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Kryo

Qualcomm Kryo is a series of custom or semi-custom ARM-based CPUs included in the Snapdragon line of SoCs.

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Laptop

A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC).

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Lenovo

Lenovo Group Limited, trading as Lenovo, is a Chinese-American multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, business solutions, and related services.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers.

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List of Microsoft Surface accessories

The Microsoft Surface touchscreen Windows computers and interactive whiteboards designed and developed by Microsoft.

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Lithium-ion battery

A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids to store energy.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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LPDDR

Low-Power Double Data Rate (LPDDR), also known as LPDDR SDRAM, is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory that consumes less power and is targeted for mobile computers and devices such as mobile phones.

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MacBook Air

The MacBook Air is a line of laptop computers developed and manufactured by Apple since 2008.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Magnetometer

A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetic field or magnetic dipole moment.

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Memory card

A memory card is an electronic data storage device used for storing digital information, typically using flash memory.

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Meteor Lake

Meteor Lake is Intel's codename for the first generation of Intel Core Ultra mobile processors, and was officially launched on December 14, 2023.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Build

Microsoft Build (often stylised as) is an annual conference event held by Microsoft, aimed at software engineers and web developers using Windows, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies.

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Microsoft Lumia

Microsoft Lumia (previously the Nokia Lumia) is a discontinued line of mobile devices that was originally designed and marketed by Nokia and later by Microsoft Mobile.

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Microsoft PixelSense

Microsoft PixelSense (formerly called Microsoft Surface) was an interactive surface computing platform that allowed one or more people to use and touch real-world objects, and share digital content at the same time.

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Microsoft Store

The Microsoft Store (formerly known as the Windows Store) is a digital distribution platform operated by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Store (retail)

Microsoft Store was a chain of retail stores and is an online shopping site, owned and operated by Microsoft and dealing in computers, computer software, and consumer electronics.

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Microsoft Tablet PC

Microsoft Tablet PC is a term coined by Microsoft for tablet computers conforming to hardware specifications, devised by Microsoft and announced in 2001, for a pen-enabled personal computer, and running a licensed copy of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system or a derivative thereof.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Mini DisplayPort

The Mini DisplayPort (MiniDP or mDP) is a miniaturized version of the DisplayPort audio-visual digital interface.

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Multi-core processor

A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores (for example, dual-core or quad-core), each of which reads and executes program instructions.

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Multi-touch

In computing, multi-touch is technology that enables a surface (a touchpad or touchscreen) to recognize the presence of more than one point of contact with the surface at the same time.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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Network effect

In economics, a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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NVM Express

NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) is an open, logical-device interface specification for accessing a computer's non-volatile storage media usually attached via the PCI Express bus.

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OLED

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED), also known as organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, is a type of light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is an organic compound film that emits light in response to an electric current.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Original equipment manufacturer

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.

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Panos Panay (technology executive)

Panos Costa Panay (Πάνος Κώστα Παναή) is a Greek American business executive.

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PC World

PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.

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PCI Express

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards.

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Pegatron

Pegatron Corporation (stylised as PEGATRON) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company that mainly develops computing, communications and consumer electronics for branded vendors.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Phone connector (audio)

A phone connector is a family of cylindrically-shaped electrical connectors primarily for analog audio signals.

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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.

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Pixel density

Pixels per inch (ppi) and pixels per centimetre (ppcm or pixels/cm) are measurements of the pixel density of an electronic image device, such as a computer monitor or television display, or image digitizing device such as a camera or image scanner.

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Premium pricing

Premium pricing (also called image pricing or prestige pricing) is the practice of keeping the price of one of the products or service artificially high in order to encourage favorable perceptions among buyers, based solely on the price.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Refresh rate

The refresh rate, also known as vertical refresh rate or vertical scan rate in reference to terminology originating with the cathode-ray tubes (CRTs), is the number of times per second that a raster-based display device displays a new image.

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Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is currently the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012.

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SD card

Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary, non-volatile, flash memory card format the SD Association (SDA) developed for use in portable devices.

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Silvermont

Silvermont is a microarchitecture for low-power Atom, Celeron and Pentium branded processors used in systems on a chip (SoCs) made by Intel.

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Skylake (microarchitecture)

Skylake is Intel's codename for its sixth generation Core microprocessor family that was launched on August 5, 2015, succeeding the Broadwell microarchitecture.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Software release life cycle

The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system).

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Solid-state drive

A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device.

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Stan Shih

Stan Shih (born 18 December 1944) is a Taiwanese businessman and engineer who is the co-founder and honorary chairman of Acer Inc. In 1976, after receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in electronic engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Shih founded Multitech with his wife Carolyn Yeh and five partners.

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Steve Ballmer

Steven Anthony Ballmer (March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.

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Stylus (computing)

In computing, a stylus (or stylus pen) is a small pen-shaped instrument whose tip position on a computer monitor can be detected.

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Surface (2012 tablet)

The first-generation Surface (launched as Surface with Windows RT, later marketed as Surface RT) is a hybrid tablet computer developed and manufactured by Microsoft. Microsoft Surface and Surface (2012 tablet) are tablet computers introduced in 2012 and Windows RT devices.

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Surface 2

Surface 2 is a Surface-series Windows RT hybrid tablet computer created by Microsoft. Microsoft Surface and Surface 2 are Windows RT devices.

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Surface 3

Surface 3 is a 2-in-1 detachable from the Microsoft Surface series, introduced by Microsoft in 2015.

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Surface Book

The Surface Book is a 2-in-1 PC designed and produced by Microsoft, part of the company's Surface line of personal computing devices.

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Surface Book 2

The Surface Book 2 is the second generation of the Surface Book, part of the Microsoft Surface line of personal computers.

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Surface Book 3

The Surface Book 3 is the third generation of Microsoft's Surface Book series, and a successor to the Surface Book 2.

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Surface Duo

The Surface Duo is a dual-touchscreen Android smartphone manufactured by Microsoft.

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Surface Duo 2

The Surface Duo 2 is a dual-touchscreen Android smartphone manufactured by Microsoft.

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Surface Go

The Surface Go is a 2-in-1 detachable in the Microsoft Surface series that was released on August 2, 2018.

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Surface Go 2

The Surface Go 2 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft.

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Surface Go 3

The Surface Go 3 is the third generation model of the Surface Go series of devices, introduced as the successor to the Surface Go 2 by Microsoft at their Surface Event on September 22, 2021.

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Surface Go 4

The Surface Go 4 For Business is the fourth generation model of the Surface Go series of devices, targeted at businesses rather than consumers, introduced as the successor to the Surface Go 3 For Business by Microsoft at their Surface Event on September 21, 2023.

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Surface Hub

The Surface Hub is a brand of interactive whiteboard developed and marketed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft Surface family.

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Surface Hub 2S

The Surface Hub 2S is the second generation of the interactive whiteboard developed and marketed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft Surface family.

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Surface Laptop

The Surface Laptop is a line of laptops marketed by Microsoft, as a sub-brand of their Surface devices.

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Surface Laptop (1st generation)

The Surface Laptop is a laptop computer designed by Microsoft as part of the company's Surface line of personal computing devices.

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Surface Laptop (7th generation)

The Surface Laptop (7th generation) (also referred to as the Surface Laptop 7th Edition) is a laptop computer developed by Microsoft.

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Surface Laptop 2

The Surface Laptop 2 is a Surface-series laptop produced by Microsoft.

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Surface Laptop 3

The Surface Laptop 3 is a laptop computer developed by Microsoft.

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Surface Laptop 4

The Surface Laptop 4 is a laptop computer made by Microsoft.

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Surface Laptop 5

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 is a laptop computer developed by Microsoft to replace the outgoing Surface Laptop 4.

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Surface Laptop 6

The Surface Laptop 6, launched together with the Surface Pro 10, is a laptop device developed by Microsoft for its business customers.

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Surface Laptop Go

The Surface Laptop Go is a portable computer introduced by Microsoft in October 2020.

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Surface Laptop Go 2

The Surface Laptop Go 2 is an upgrade to the Surface Laptop Go.

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Surface Laptop Go 3

The Surface Laptop Go 3 is the successor to the Surface Laptop Go 2.

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Surface Laptop SE

The Surface Laptop SE is a laptop computer manufactured by Microsoft.

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Surface Laptop Studio

The Surface Laptop Studio is a 2-in-1 convertible laptop developed by Microsoft.

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Surface Pen

The Surface Pen is an active stylus and digital pen developed by Microsoft for its series of Surface computing devices.

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Surface Pro

The Surface Pro is a first generation 2-in-1 detachable of the Microsoft Surface series, designed and manufactured by Microsoft.

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Surface Pro (11th generation)

The Surface Pro (11th generation) (also referred to as the Surface Laptop 11th Edition) is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft to supersede the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Pro X. It was released shortly after the Intel x86-based Surface Pro 10, and unveiled alongside the Surface Laptop (7th generation).

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Surface Pro (2017)

The fifth-generation Surface Pro (marketed as the Surface Pro, colloquially referred to as the Surface Pro 2017 or Surface Pro 5) is a Surface-series 2-in-1 detachable hybrid notebook computer, designed, developed, marketed, and produced by Microsoft.

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Surface Pro 10

The Microsoft Surface Pro 10 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft, succeeding the Surface Pro 9.

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Surface Pro 2

The Surface Pro 2 is a Surface-series 2-in-1 detachable produced by Microsoft.

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Surface Pro 3

The Surface Pro 3 is the third-generation Surface-series 2-in-1 detachable, designed, developed, marketed, and produced by Microsoft.

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Surface Pro 4

The Surface Pro 4 is the fourth-generation Surface-series 2-in-1 detachable, designed, developed, and marketed by Microsoft.

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Surface Pro 6

The Surface Pro 6 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft.

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Surface Pro 7

The Surface Pro 7 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft.

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Surface Pro 8

The Microsoft Surface Pro 8 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft to supersede the Surface Pro 7.

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Surface Pro 9

The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft to supersede the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Pro X, merging both brands.

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Surface Pro X

The Surface Pro X is a 2-in-1 detachable tablet computer developed by Microsoft.

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Surface Studio

The Surface Studio is an all-in-one PC, designed and produced by Microsoft as part of its Surface series of Windows-based personal computing devices.

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Surface Studio 2

The Surface Studio 2 is an all-in-one PC, designed and produced by Microsoft as part of its Surface series of Windows-based personal computing devices.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.

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Tegra

Tegra is a system on a chip (SoC) series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones, personal digital assistants, and mobile Internet devices.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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Thunderbolt (interface)

Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface for the connection of external peripherals to a computer.

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Tiger Lake

Tiger Lake is Intel's codename for the 11th generation Intel Core mobile processors based on the Willow Cove Core microarchitecture, manufactured using Intel's third-generation 10 nm process node known as 10SF ("10 nm SuperFin").

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Touchpad

A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device.

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Touchscreen

A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user.

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Transportation Security Administration

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has authority over the security of transportation systems within, and connecting to, the United States.

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Trusted Platform Module

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, a dedicated microcontroller designed to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys.

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Ultrabook

Ultrabook is a marketing term, originated and trademarked by Intel, for a category of high-end laptop computers.

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Videotelephony

Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video call) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication.

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Whiteboard

A whiteboard (also known by the terms marker board, dry-erase board, dry-wipe board, and pen-board) is a glossy, usually white surface for making non-permanent markings.

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Wi-Fi 6

Wi-Fi 6, or IEEE 802.11ax, is an IEEE standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance, for wireless networks (WLANs).

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Windows 10

Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

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Windows 10 editions

Windows 10 has several editions, all with varying feature sets, use cases, or intended devices.

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Windows 10X

Windows 10X is a cancelled edition of Windows 10, a major release of the Microsoft Windows series of operating systems.

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Windows 11

Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021.

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Windows 8

Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Phone

Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune.

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Windows RT

Windows RT is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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X86

x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the 8086 microprocessor and its 8-bit-external-bus variant, the 8088.

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X86-64

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999.

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Xbox

Xbox is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming service Xbox Cloud Gaming, and online services such as the Xbox network and Xbox Game Pass.

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Zen 2

Zen 2 is a computer processor microarchitecture by AMD.

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Zen+

Zen+ is the name for a computer processor microarchitecture by AMD.

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1080p

1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vertically; the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced.

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2-in-1 laptop

A 2-in-1 laptop, also known as 2-in-1 PC, 2-in-1 tablet, laplet, tabtop, laptop tablet, or simply 2-in-1, is a portable computer that has features of both tablets and laptops.

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4K resolution

4K resolution refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface

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