Microsoft switched the Surface Pro tablet and both sizes of Surface Laptop from Intel and AMD’s processors to Qualcomm’s Arm-based processors last summer, part of a renewed hardware and software push to make the Arm version of Windows a thing.

AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor has been one of the most powerful mobile chips available for the past year or so, thanks to its combination of a 16-core, 32-thread CPU based on Zen 5 architecture, Radeon 8060S integrated graphics with 40 RDNA 3.

Building or buying a PC in 2026 just keeps getting more expensive, with memory and storage prices surging. I've been building PCs for a long time, so here's how I would save my money.