Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 Review

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 is an official CoPilot+ PC, packing in AI features that are there to assist you when you need them. Running on a Snapdragon X Elite ARM-based CPU, can this ‘laptop of the future’ stand up to a day in the life of tech reviewer? We put it to the test to find out.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start
01:04 An AI Powered future?
01:58 The machine and some Apple comparisons
02:58 I/O
03:19 Some concerns
03:43 Keyboard and trackpad
05:04 The screen
06:10 Speakers
06:38 The Camera and Microphone
09:30 Noise suppression
09:53 Hardware/Performance
11:49 Creative work in the real world
12:35 Editing this video on the Surface Laptop 7
14:16 Battery Life
14:42 AI – how useful is it now?
17:27 The cost
18:34 Closing Thoughts

Specifications:

Processor

• Surface Laptop 13.8 inch:
  • Snapdragon® X Plus (10 Core)
    Snapdragon® X Elite (12 Core)

NPU

• Qualcomm® Hexagon™ with 45 trillion operations per second

Graphics

• Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU

Memory and Storage

• Memory options:
  • 16GB or 32GB LPDDR5x RAM
• Storage options:
  • Removable solid-state drive (Gen 4 SSD) options: 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB

Display

• Surface Laptop 13.8 inch:
  • Touchscreen: 13.8-inch PixelSense Flow™ Display
  • Resolution: 2304 x 1536 (201 PPI)
  • Aspect ratio: 3:2
  • Contrast ratio 1400:1
  • Dynamic refresh rate up to 120Hz
  • Colour profile: sRGB and Vivid
  • Individually colour-calibrated display
  • Adaptive colour
  • Adaptive contrast
  • Auto colour management
  • Touch: 10-point multi-touch
  • Dolby Vision® IQ support
  • Corning ® Gorilla® Glass 5

Battery Life

• Surface Laptop 13.8 inch :
  • Up to 20 hours of local video playback
  • Up to 13 hours of active web usage

Size and weight

• Surface Laptop 13.8 inch:
  • Length: 301 mm (11.85 inch)
  • Width: 220 mm (8.67 inch)
  • Height: 17.5 mm (0.69 inch)
  • Weight: 1.34 kg (2.96 lbs)

You can buy the Surface Laptop 7 directly from Microsoft, staring at £1049 HERE.

Pros:

• Stylish build with full aluminium chassis.
• Great looking screen.
• Good performance.
• Amazing battery life.
• Great trackpad and keyboard.

Cons:

• Limited I/O.
• ARM architecture is still in its early days.
• Chassis edges get slightly uncomfortable after prolonged use.

KitGuru says: The Surface Laptop has stellar battery life, a great build and good performance, which should improve once ARM64 Windows support matures.

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