Watch out, Chromebooks: Microsoft's budget Surface Laptop SE is coming for you

(Pocket-lint) - Microsoft hasn't fixed up connected schools conscionable yet.

In the US, Chromebooks ain the K-12 market. If you spell to elementary, middle, oregon precocious school, chances are you've needed to usage a Chrome OS laptop successful people and for homework. Microsoft has been trying for years to regain immoderate of this segment, and its latest effort could beryllium its truest Chromebook rival yet. 

The bundle elephantine is reportedly gearing up to present a low-cost Surface Laptop called Surface laptop SE arsenic good arsenic a caller variation of Windows 11 named Windows 11 SE - and some volition beryllium aimed astatine the acquisition market, according to Windows Central. The laptop is expected to see an 11.6-inch (1366 x 768) display, Intel’s N4120 Celeron processor, up to 8GB of RAM, and a azygous USB-A and USB-C port. It'll beryllium ultra-affordable, too.

As for Windows 11 SE, it sounds similar it could beryllium akin to the S versions of Windows 10. Microsoft antecedently launched a Surface Go laptop moving Windows 10 S Mode. It, too, was aimed astatine K-12 and started astatine $399. A keyboard that went with it outgo $99, separately.

No thought erstwhile Microsoft volition motorboat the Surface Laptop SE oregon Windows 11 SE. But it'll astir apt effort to connection its caller laptop beneath $400.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 27 October 2021.