Surface Laptop 7 After 1 Week: Growing Pains!

My thoughts on the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 after 1 week.

The CoPilot+ Surface Laptop features the powerful ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite processor. Boasting up to 20 hours of battery life and competing with the M3 MacBook Air, this device promises significant performance improvements. I’ll dive into its real-world performance, new hardware, and software features, including the innovative haptic touchpad. If you’re curious about the latest Surface Laptop or how Snapdragon chips fare with Windows 11, stick around as I explore everything this machine has to offer.

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00:00 | Start
01:37 | Design
03:19 | Display
04:52 | Performance
07:46 | AI
09:50 | Battery Life
11:06 | Wrapping Up

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[Looooooka]

Half of your video should be complaining about Adobe not Microsoft 🤦‍♂️

[leakyabstraction]

Thanks for the review and the quality footage. Although for me personally it seemed that there was a bit of disconnect between the positivity of the introduction, and what was mentioned during the video, about the so-so display, and the compatibility/performance problems experienced. But what was shocking for me is the price difference between the 16GB and 32GB model at 5:54... 360 dollars for an additional 16GB feels incredibly unfair and extortionist, even more so than what Apple does. The actual cost of the +16GB RAM must be around 30 or 40 dollars, considering that you can buy a full 32GB DDR5 RAM kit for around 100 euros. I was really hoping that we're already past this practice on the PC market, since recently I've seen quite fair pricing from e.g. Lenovo, so I'm disappointed that Microsoft is still doing that.

Also, I personally think it's problematic that most of these devices are sold with 16GB RAM, including the almost 1800 dollar Galaxy Book. Even on Mac users are increasingly arguing that 16GB should be the base, and on Windows the memory consumption is considered higher. Most people are probably buying these laptops for 3-4 years of productivity use, and I can't see it guaranteed that they won't run into issues with 16GB under Windows. I personally absolutely don't want to buy a laptop in 2024 above 1200 dollars where I have to then worry about how many tabs I open in the browser if I have some productivity desktop apps opened too. Especially as a software engineer who might want to run some docker containers as well.

[sudhirrao]

Your indepth coverage of Surface Laptop 7 and how it works is one of a kind..Appreciate your work, it was awesome and very useful. Thanks... 👍

[SJ-euem]

In 1-2 years the SW might catch up for ARM, glad I got a deal on Lenovo Yoga Slim 6 AMD version, runs windows and Linux, no problems with docker containers, Oled full HD display so no need for scaling and plenty of power for both CPU and GPU!

[marrmalade]

People can hate Apple all they want, but you have to appreciate how effortlessly and smoothly Apple handled the transition from x86 to ARM with the M1 chips - even with 8GB RAM the M1 devices performed amazingly well. And let's not forget the battery efficiency and how fast developers adopted the transition (Rosetta 2 was great as well). All this was achieved 4 years ago! Wild stuff!

[marshall]

Love the production quality of the video. it felt like an advertisement with an honest narration.

[bryans]

Thanks for another honest review Kyle. I'm happy to see competition with the M series MacBooks, I think we all benefit from that, and I'm looking forward to your direct comparison with the MacBook Air.

[mahanmalekipour]

First time seeing your channel
And what a beautiful production. Cooler's and tones and everything has harmony and it's beautiful.
Every shot is soft and color matched
Well down man. Well done.

[georgekwong]

Wow these laptops look amazing. Im excited.

[andreaslassak]

I can't expect that every software will be running without issues on new platform. I have zero issues for my software development

[williamcopeland]

Good video. However, I think your unit has a very bad battery in it. Andrew Marc David posted his video of the Surface Laptop 7, and he was able to get 20 hours and 9 minutes of battery life with the brightness set at 40% and the screen at 120hz. He also said he would have gotten more battery life if he set the refresh rate at 60hz. So, something is definitely wrong with your battery unfortunately. Again, good video and after some firmware updates please do a follow up video.

[svenshruufx]

Throwing that much money at a laptop in hope of things eventually getting better doesn’t make sense. Should always consider what the product can do at the moment you buy it. If you are not an experimental user, MacBook Air M3 will be the more solid choice. MacOS ChatGPT native app is also coming/ should be available for premium users already.

[bradavon]

Strange on the battery front. Other reviews seem to rate it much higher, maybe in synthetic benchmarks though.

[AndroidDigest]

Ah. Saw the title. Then saw all of your apple videos. Not surprising. Of course there's some growing pains. But it's 90% there for most people and a couple months away of getting most apps updated. The title should read "an incredibly promising start" or "a very bright future"

[bahman]

I love your artistic Thumbnails.
Keep up the good work Kylie

[rtcurtis]

I also do both MacOS and Win 11. I had the Surface Laptop 3, and can't fault it. Got the Surface Laptop 5 not all that long ago, and now see the Surface Laptop 7. Must have missed the 6? Anyhoo, am really interested in the specs of the model 7. Wondering if it might be better to wait for the second iteration of this new platform?...Randy

[ahmad.mozaffar]

I ordered the Sapphire will arrive in couple days, but your video, made me regret that, I should've to get the Dune

[NattyFlump]

So the takeaway from this appears to be that these snapdragon elite laptops are "okay" but there's some caveats with app compatibility, battery life is a bit better but not stunningly so and there's no real "killer app" with most of the AI features being either fluff (co-creator) or unrealised. It's disappointing that the copilot app launched by the dedicated copilot button is just a PWA with no access to local resources, rather than an on-device application. Coming soon I guess?

Seems to be a solid 'wait for second gen devices' situation, as I'm not seeing anything that really differentiates them from x86/x64 Windows laptops. Well except working sleep, which tbh is enough of a killer feature! :)

[aymanjc]

Looks like we have to wait a year or two for windows to be fully optimised for arm chips

[josefludvikbohm]

First direct mention of blender I saw here, very appreciated! Looks like you have been able to run cycles?
Could you make a video note about blender specifically? Perhaps with external GPU?
Thanks!