Surface Laptop 7 Review: Don't Buy it for the AI...

So why all the gnashing of teeth? Why are so many tech bros trying to find deal breakers?
When will AMD and Intel launch actual competitors for X Elite?

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0:00 Intro and Covid
0:33 A Drama Free Month
1:07 Surface Laptop 7 Build Quality
2:21 The Best Trackpad I've Ever Used
4:08 Display and Repair-ability
5:14 X Elite Performance (is GREAT)
09:13 The Ultrabook Perfected
10:36 VPN Support is Lacking
12:39 Surface Laptop is NOT a Gaming PC
17:24 Huge PRACTICAL Battery Life
21:35 The AI is a Massive Flop
23:36 It's Just a Really Nice Laptop
25:25 When Will AMD and Intel Respond?
27:55 64GB of RAM is TOO Expensive
29:40 The Best Laptop I've Ever Owned

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[davidburns]

To the fan boys: If I could have a super power efficient laptop right now I would and it wouldn't replace my desktop PC for gaming. Yeah maybe only one device yadda yadda but gaming hardware has also really stagnated for major games so building a new out of box gaming PC with older 12th gen intel or 5th Gen ryzen is still completely doable... If you're buying a new system every year you have more money than sense and if you think people don't care about battery life for work... I don't have time to argue with a brick

[cadkoger]

I've had my Surface Laptop 7 13.8 X-Plus for a month now, too, and I absolutely love this thing. Best Windows ultrabook I've ever used.

[mvz]

I will never understand why laptop manufactures refuse to put usbc charging on BOTH Charging is one of the most frequent ports you interact with and if your setup consistently has the port on the wrong side, it can be super frustrating. It is a point of friction and frustration that could be sooo easily solved, I just don't get it.

[Joftar]

I've pretty much seen all the surface laptop 7 reviews. This one is the best so far. All the others ~feel~ biased or sponsored. Great video mate!

[shyambutani]

Finally someone is making sense. I bought Lenovo yoga slim 7x 32GB and so far very impressed.

[MangoPickleGaming]

Finally a review where the reviewer actually used it for a while.

[Angel-HC]

I'm seriously excited for the future of Windows on ARM. Try as I might, I just could never find a Windows laptop in the last 6 years that could give me the battery endurance I wanted without sacrificing performance. I eventually got a Macbook Air M2 which I've been loving. I think the transition to ARM for Windows might be a LITTLE more painful than it was for Mac, but I think in the long run it'll bring us much better mobile computers than what we've been getting with X86.

[maddada]

Great video, agree with all of the points you made.
Love how quiet, thin, and cool these laptops run.

Looking forward to lunar lake and then the 2nd gen of these, I'm sure they'll get even better then.
Hope we get 2 in 1 laptops like the Gram 16 2 in 1 Pro with snapdragon, I think it's going to be perfect with this CPU.
AI is mostly not that useful so far, hate how everyone is so focused on this gimmick.
I really liked the Haptic touch pad, especially with windows' touch pad customization options.

[greggski]

What a great, down to earth video. Maybe I will give an ARM laptop a shot since I'm a very light user and my old Matebook D15 from 2018 is slowly falling apart (hinges on Huawei laptops are shit).

[slomojo]

Love the rant. Still can hear the little nasal issues are dealing with currently. Get well Juan, loved the video and your points are correct. I am looking forward to the future of ARM cpus. Love my Yoga Slim 7x. It is night and day, Intel has a long way to go.

[SilkBistini]

Thanks for this ! Would really love to see more advanced davinci editing test. Not that I want this machine for editing but probably be something I would need sometimes.

[mehdimido]

glad to see hardware video encoding working on the X Elite. Hopefully more apps will take advantage of the hardware and better performance in the future.

[gmosc]

Did fast forwarding through the video since this isnt for me. The stuff I heard you say, was spot on as I expected. Love your stuff. As usual.
You are a gift to rational thinkers.

[blurandomnumber]

Kept nodding my head on the gaming segment. Hades is not just real gaming -- Hades is the definition of hardcore gaming. And so is Tetris. Whether somebody likes them or not is a completely different subject.

[vicenteabad]

the best review i've seen so far of the snapdragon x elite series. i am glad you emphasized that this is not a gaming laptop. it woke me up from the trance i was in from watching all these other reviewers whining that x elite sucks in gaming. they are bordering on, if not outright, being irresponsible when they keep on whining how the x elite sucks in gaming. as you have clearly pointed out, the x elite series is not for gaming although, yes, it can play a good amount of games. keep it my man! keep on coming up with materials like this, that although hard to find amomg the detritus that these other so-called techies provide, is very much welcomed and needed.

[MeatNinja]

Ordered the base model a couple days ago to replace my Go 3 for school work (which I stuck with for two years despite it being a disappointment from day one). I'm so excited about the battery life finally getting good! Although I find the platinum color a bit boring, I could not justify spending an extra 200 euros for a different color (plus extra storage I won't use and isn't worth the money anyway).

[arzsupra]

Dang, thank you for calling out the folks that think they know things, but haven't actually used the devices!

[vin.k.k]

I have realized reviewers review Apple products differently compared to products from other companies.

[eduardoandresserrato]

I sadly couldnt wait any longer for the more budget version of the snapdragon laptops, so I bought my first MacBook ever (m2 air) and I am dumbfounded by the battery life they afford, it has lasted easily a whole day of normal use on a single charge and its currently on its third day of light use, while my surface pro 7 was lucky to get more than 3 hours of battery life on web browsing, and excel excelling. I'm glad windows now has a similar solution, and hope this tech will soon get to more budget friendly laptops, and not stay just on the high end

[labalia]

Thank you for this review! It really is a first-hand view of this device which is very attractive! I have a Surface Pro X and, outside of the screen, has truly an amazing battery life - especially if you store it on a shelf and forget about it for a month. But it always has been a bit underperforming and not that much programs were compatible, but that is changing too. Surface devices are incredibly cool, especially if you also count the Surface Duo, but the battery life is a big problem and I prefer to use an iPad on the go than my Surface Go 2. I think the next-gen Surface Go 5 will also be on ARM, which will make them an iPad-killer machine. It is just a bit sad that MS didn't go further on the Surface Duo / Surface Neo route or even folding devices like Lenovo and others do. Thank you for the very clear explanation about how much RAM you should buy, this has made me think - I just barely missed an opportunity to buy a brand new SPro9 with 32GB for 600$ so this rings a bell - but SP9 instantly got devaluated as a portable device with the advent of the new SP11 and SLaptop 7.