Surface Laptop 7, Snapdragon Elite Overview and Performance Testing

My first Snapdragon Elite laptop. Let's see what this is made of

[paulascholz]

I bought this laptop for the NPU-acceleration for LLMs, 45 TOPS and the Phi-Silica model. There is an API to submit inference queries directly from Windows applications. All locally on the device, no network, OpenAI or Azure needed. It's a new kind of machine entirely.

[DementedView]

This will be an unpopular opinion but as long as its between a M1 and M3 in performance, doesn't get hot doing basic things, has good real life battery life and doesn't feel slow to boot then to me it's living up to expectations. But it def seems the performance could use work.

I might wait a few more weeks to see how it fairs before commiting to a purchase.

[jklayup]

Good review! I bought the laptop 7 today. I love touch screens in laptop.

[Noodles.FreeUkraine]

Since you asked, World of Warcraft offers a native ARM client for Windows that should run well and might be a great option for testing native gfx performance.

[King-Julz]

Make sure you test with the best performance preset. This is in the settings app. type battery, sleep and battery settings.

[williamcopeland]

Maybe I missed it, but do you have to 10 core or 12 core chip set? Your numbers look pretty low compared to other Surface Laptop reviews.

[dmddomingoable]

Did you buy this at the Microsoft Store? How many gigs is the memory? Can you open the laptop and upgrade the memory and/or the ssd? Thank you.

[pcgaming]

Thanks for review, can this do virtualisation like VMware workstation or VirtualBox?

[sirsilva]

Multi-core processing does not matter for music production, single-core does!

[bziophw]

Can you talk about the AI features and other programs such as Adobe or video editing

[BravePJMaster]

Are all of the benchmarking software you used natively running on ARM?

[deadworms]

can you test if google play games beta works on windows on ARM

[HaseebAhmadKhattak]

The chip is comparable to Macbook Air M3 not the M3 pro and M3 max!

[aashishnakarmi]

How are the speakers? Do they have bass?

[moviesynopsis]

Does it have vents that can be blocked on a bed?

[bziophw]

2:30 I really hate the glossy screens, I think they do this because it's a touch screen, which is another useless feature for a laptop

[alexs.]

Your comparisons were off and very misleading. You were comparing non equivalent products/ devices

[asdqqq]

I just got my Surface Laptop today and while I am overall quite happy with it one thing bugs me alot.

When i scroll with two fingers on the touchpad and lift them up usually on other devices (both macbook and other windows laptops) the page usually scrolls a bit further. On the new Surface Laptop the scrolling basically immediately stops which feeld super harsh. If i flick really fast, or make a long movement on the touchpad it often times scrolls further after i lift my finger. It kid of feels like there is a threshold in terms of length your fingers moved or speed the fingers have to move to continue scrolling after lifting the fingers.

Did you notice something similar?