Microsofts Surface laptop for consumers is back, faster and with longer battery life and a hefty price increase because of the high cost of memory and chips. The Surface Laptop 8 is a straight replacement for the seventh edition from 2024, which was the first of Microsofts new generation of ARM based, Qualcomm powered PCs designed to better rival Apples MacBook Air and other thin and light machines. The new machine comes with a choice of Qualcomms latest Snapdragon X2 Plus or Elite chips but...