Microsoft announces the 28-inch Surface Studio 2+ with Intel’s 11th Gen i7, Nvidia’s RTX 3060, Dolby Vision, and 1TB, available for $4,299 or $4,499 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia announces the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs; the RTX 4090 is 2-4x faster than the 3090 Ti, comes with 24GB GDDR6X memory, and arrives October 12 for $1,600  —  Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 40-series GPUs today.  After months of rumors and some recent teasing from Nvidia, the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are now both official.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia is “unlaunching” the recently announced 12GB RTX 4080 after backlash, says the graphics card sharing the 4080 designation with RTX 4080 16GB is confusing  —  Nvidia is pausing the launch of its upcoming 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card.  After originally unveiling the 12GB RTX 4080 …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:
What to expect from Microsoft’s Surface event: Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, Surface Studio 3, and potentially a mini PC and Surface accessories  —  – Wildcards: A mini PC and Surface accessories  —  Microsoft is holding its customary fall Surface event on October 12th …

Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer:
Intel plans to launch its Arc A770 graphics card for $329 on October 12, hoping to compete with Nvidia’s budget GeForce RTX 3060 on price and performance  —  That’s the same MSRP as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 it goes up against, but Intel says that the green team’s card isn’t actually that cheap.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia RTX 4080 review: great 4K performance, transformative DLSS 3, and 16GB of VRAM, but huge, expensive, and the dongle adapter is annoying  —  Nvidia is back with another new 40-series card.  The RTX 4080 can deliver impressive 4K gaming compared to the RTX 30-series.

Barry Collins / Forbes:
Lansweeper study of 27M Windows PCs: Windows 11 was installed on over 3% of consumer PCs and 2.5% of business computers at the end of September, below Windows 7  —  Windows 11 has been installed on only 3% of consumer PCs in the year since its launch, according to figures from Lansweeper.