Surface Laptop 7 13.8' Snapdragon X Elite In Depth First Impressions | Can it Game?

Specs as tested:
Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100
512GB Storage
16GB RAM

Microsoft Makes 3 Key Changes to Windows Recall After Security Concerns Emerge

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Intro 0:00
Setup and Recall 1:22
Hardware Tour 2:16
Speaker Test 5:43
The Screen 6:15
Performance 7:53
Two Weird Things 9:20
Gaming Test 10:37
Battery Life 17:12
Final Notes 18:04

[xGrime]

Holy s***t thank GOD dude the first YouTuber who puts the damn specs in the description- you would think this is a no brainer holy crap dude thank you so much for not wasting my time. I’m subbing 😂

[williamcopeland]

Good review, Shane. I ordered my Surface Laptop 15 inch this morning and should have it tomorrow. I'm guessing after some firmware along with app updates, the computer should perform even better. Do a follow up video down the road. Thanks.

[bardknight]

I was in the market for a laptop recently and I was considering one of these Copilot laptops, but I'm glad I went with an Intel chip while they work out the issues with these. It is impressive how well they are working with emulation of older apps and as developers optimize for ARM I'm hoping that these become the norm in the future. Having a powerful computer with incredible battery life is the dream.

[jeanbaptistelabelle]

Funny to read in the title "gaming" when Snapdragon has repeated for more than 6 months that the Elite X is NOT for gaming !

[markfinlay]

Thanks Shane. I know I will be going down this route some time not so distant!

[kratafila]

I have the sapphire blue 13.8 X Elite too. Awesome little device.

[MadafakinRio]

Enjoy your device. It's money well spent, don't worry about it. If I had money, I'd definitely buy the Surface Pro OLED, it's perfect for me.

[psalmistpro]

I honestly thought that was a pixelbook go. Great video.

[MJK]

I am so happy you did this review. I have been interested in possibly purchasing one of these for myself.

[morpho]

You have spent the last several days trying to convince yourself to spend some money...

[PyromancerRift]

The only thing that matter is battery life. And it is very disapointing compared to AMD equivalent laptops. It requires a lot more power than apple M chips.

[Biglouravens]

Microsoft already has your data nothing to be concern about

[vincentgagnon]

Loved the review and seeing where Microsoft is going (except Recall). An oled tablet running windows games natively on a powerful Arm chip combined with a powerful iGPU and a port fast enough to dock an external GPU, this with a sandwich controller would be my dream jack of all trade PC. May be in 5 years.

[Xshunin]

Really really love the new Elite X lineup. I know it's gonna be removed soon, but is it possible to test WSA on it? I always wanted to know if Android games on WSA on an ARM Windows just uses Level 1 hypervisor and straight up run directly on the ARM cpu?

[luc]

I always use matte screen protectors and they work really well for both anti-glare and fingerprints (for example Supershieldz anti glare and fingerprint
matte).

[PrestoMoto]

I would never buy a gaming laptop I have a nice desktop for that but for productivity this is the best laptop I’ve ever used

[Drew-NL]

I am not sure if you will look at this but here goes: Will Nvidia or AMD / Snapdragon or Windows allow EGPU support?
This would be for me the only reason to upgrade my M1, since apple keeps its system closed. Ive seen some vids where the adapter works, but when installing drivers it says no drivers available. So there might be hope?

[akin]

Nice review. Could you test Power BI and Tableau?

[Gritino]

Nice stuff man as usual. No way I am buying one of those though 😂

[sterus]

AMD is a lot better and will totally obliterate it with Strix Point.