Surface Laptop 7

I have had the Surface Laptop 5 , 15” for a year now , and loving it. 5 hours real life battery life, only office work, Outlook\Edge etc. and 6 hours netflix loop on 70% brightness , may beat the SL 7 on versatility. [...]

[...] Almost 6 years later and there is still nothing on the market that: Has the same level of performance With the same or better battery life With the same quality of screen With the same quality of speakers and touchpad Runs as quiet or as cool as the Apple Silicon macbooks. [...] Either the speakers, screen, keyboard, touchpad, build quality, battery life, or thermals. I have a Surface Laptop 7 with the Snapdragon X Elite, and it's pretty close. Checks the boxes for Screen, build quality, and touchpad. Loses out on speakers and battery life, and the fans need to run a lot more than my M4 Pro MBP does. It also loses on performance, and it doesn't run Linux. Windows on Arm also still has a lot of little quirks and bugs that start to become daily annoyances. [...]

[...] I tried the surface laptop 7 with the snapdragon X elite, and it's..OK. Still spins up the fans quite a bit and runs hotter than my 14" M4 Pro. It's noticeably slower than the MacBook too, and isn't instant wake from sleep (though it's a lot better than Wintel laptops used to be). So I've been on Apple Silicon macs for the last 4.5 years because there's just no other option out there that even comes close. I'm actually away from my desk a lot, battery life matters to me. I just want a laptop with great performance AND great battery life, silent, runs cool, high quality screen and touchpad, and decent speakers and microphone. [...]

[...] I have the surface laptop 7 with the X elite in it. [...] Feels a little slower than my M2 Air I have but not much, most of that is probably just windows being windows. [...]

i bought The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th edition -And i use Mac for my Business and Microsoft -i Think the Surface 7 is great and windows 11 plays all my applications be it Mac/ windows or Google-however i'm not a games Player- strictly Business-The Surface 7 is fast /well built and a reasonable price-I Think Microsoft did a great job both on Hardware and Software

support for windows on arm is pretty much garbage !!! i bought a hp laptop with a snapdragon arm chip just to see had excellent battery life but 9 out of 10 programs either would not run or ran really badly sold it a month later ! Very disappointing compared to apple its arm program compatibility layer !!!!

I bought the Surface Laptop 7 about 3 weeks ago and I absolutely love it so far. I love the size and weight, the touchscreen, the keyboard, no fan noise, battery life and the MacBook-like design! It fixes everything that I didn’t like about my Samsung GalaxyBook 4, that I took back after only 4 months.

I got my hands on a Surface Laptop 7 running on a Snapdragon X Elite chip (12-cores). [...] It's so fast that it fools you into thinking that Teams is a high performance app 😂 If you have any specific questions about the device, let me know.

First impressions with the Surface Laptop 7: it’s really good! Battery life is stellar, standby and resume are instant like with my iPad, and I haven’t found compatibility problems so far. [...]

One thing no one talks about, but something I very much like, is that the photo on the desktop changes each time I open it. The images are totally stunning, and there is info at the top that tells you about the photo if you are interested. Right now, there is a stunning photo of an owl. [...]

I'm still using the 1st Gen Surface Laptop - only obvious replacement is another Surface Laptop. Just using it for internet, streaming and sometimes Office. Fits my use cases perfectly.

[...] The sound is incredible, the quality of the screen is just amazing… very impressed. [...]

Probably a surface laptop 7. I have the arm edition with 32 gigs of ram and that’s been my daily driver and has been very reliable. If you’re going to be doing COM, I think you’re OK on arm, but you could also look at the Intel version of the same

I got my surface laptop 7 in the base config since 2 months. I use it for my daily tasks and studying. I also work as a Software engineer, and every tool and app I used before my surface laptop 7 on a x86 laptop runs on it natively. [...] Because I use it for daily tasks (watching youtube, listening to music, watching movies and series), I also wanted to have good integrated speakers, and for my own use case they are more than I could have asked for.

[...] It's such a cool device that is hampered by Meteor Lake and glitchy software implementations. [...]

It has no support for surface pen for absolutely no reason, I cant run illustrator or after effects, I have had the laptp 3, 5 and 6 and this one literally took away every single thing I need it for, absolutely baffling downgrade and wasted thosuands of dollars. [...]

[...] My brightness is left to auto-adjust. [...]

[...] BTW I tested my wifes Px13 4060 at 47 percent brightness 35 on volume on Netflix probably not 4k I had to put windows on best efficiency after putting it on whisper mode and changing the gpu setting to igpu and was surprised to get almost 12 hours of battery life. There were a few bios updates so plesasently surprised. [...]

I haven't had one issue with the Lenovo 7x snapdragon for typical non-tech enthusiast work. The build quality is great, the screen perfection, and the battery life superb.

[...] I ended up getting the 13.8 inch surface laptop 7's plus snapdragon version with 16BH and 512GB SSD, especially thanks your insightful review on the surface laptop & your laptop recommendation for business/casual users. [...] Though not having OLED screen is a bummer, but a great premium package overall.

Can other Laptop 7 users chime in with their battery usage numbers.I just don't buy the 5hr battery claim. [...] And it gets around 4-5 hr on normal task (vscode, browser and video play, display at 144hz and 20% brightnessindoors). Unless Josh uses something demanding, always runs at 100% brightness or some un-optimised x86 chugging in the background, I dont buy 5hr claim at all

I just want to note that I have purchased and returned surface laptop 7 both the plus and elite , Lenovo slim 7, Samsung book 4edge , and every single one has a major flaw for me. I am a construction estimator and I use a CLOUD based software to open pdfs. And the scroll lag is ridiculously crazy when plugged in to a monitor. You’d think a cloud based service would work flawlessly but it stutters and lags while loading even 10page pdfs. I love the efficiency and battery life on the go but can’t stand its drop off in performance when docked. [...]

I'm an Encompass (residential mortgage software) dev. [...] While not lightning fast, it offered long battery life, no fans, and a great form factor for casual tablet use. [...] 🤣It results in Encompass spending 10 minutes trying to install the virtual printer driver on each launch, so effectively the software is not usable. [...]

The battery life on my Surface Laptop 7 is SIGNIFICANTLY better than what you are experiencing, Josh, I get maybe 2% drain per hour which means I can go all day and still have a lot left in the tank after several hours. FYI, I am running the laptop at 50% screen brightness on "Recommended" power mode.

You said laptop gets warm when charging with type c, I also noticed it happening with surface dock 2 connector. Additionally, I would find the laptop after charging a few hours with lid closed (in sleep) while while connected to dock 2 connector it would be extremely warm and fan audibly running. I also noticed many graphic glitches mainly while connected to external monitors. MS Teams (arm version) had many glitches with worst being it needing reinstall multiple times because couldn’t open it (even after reboot). [...]

One month in and the Surface Laptop 7 just might be the best Windows laptop I've ever owned. [...]

I've had this laptop for 2 days now. [...] Anyway, even though its 120Hz the ghosting really takes away from the display feeling sharp and quick. Otherwise it is an incredible machine, even without an OLED.

Beyond just build quality too. The $1k air has phenomenal speakers for a laptop, a great display (albeit, no 120hz), and a touchpad that is unmatched on any other laptop. [...] The only laptop that comes close is the new arm Surface Laptop 7, but - no Linux on that for now.

[...] But, I just can't tolerate the user hostile behavior from Microsoft, nor the stop the world updates that take entirely too long. [...] do and move to an immutable/read-only base and deploy image based updates instead of whatever janky patching they do now. [...] The Surface Laptop 7 (the arm one) comes close, but still not good enough.

I have a Surface Laptop 7 with 32GB RAM (the Costco edition). Software-wise as a user, no complaints. All the software I use (90% MS stack) works perfectly. [...] Moving to WSL, even that works fine, as long as the software you can get is ARM64 (as your WSL layer doesn't have an emulator). [...] The battery life is amazing. The charging port is MS' version of Magsafe, and adds safety. The screen is not bad, but not good either. [...]

[...] So far I have a Surface Laptop 7 with the Snapdragon which has blown me away in terms of battery life. I'm talking 10+ hours watching video on full brightness. And I'll happily sacrifice 50% of that for a better screen and a more powerful GPU. [...]

Ok so the Surface Laptop 7 is a nice piece of metal. I also really like how the battery lasts as long as my phone does. Wish it was convertible so it was easier to read manga on, but I guess that's what the Surface Pro line is for.

I'd prefer an M2 MacBook Air if money was a problem. [...] It mostly works well for software development. [...] I sometimes wonder whether a MacBook 14 base model would be value for money for this use case. [...]

I bought this laptop for studying. [...] I've used it for coding, 3D-modelling in Maya and Fusion, and making games in Unity. I don't need to bring my charger everywhere anymore, it runs silently and doesn't get hot. Performance has been great in all applications I use, and Unity works particularly well. [...]

[...] It feels and looks cheap. [...] I open my maxed out Dell which is good and I just feel cheap. [...] Making me STILL glued to my phone. [...] NEVER even having to look at my phone saving it as well from over use. I update a Mac Im still fully using it until quick reboot. [...] Display hammers my Dells display while being 8 years older

I would probably not recommend most people a Snapdragon Windows laptop, at least this generation due to bugs, compatibility issues and pricing. [...] Though if your heart is set on an X Elite, then two standout from my testing: 13-inch go for the XPS 13, and 15-inch the Surface Laptop 7. [...] The lack of a 32GB option on the Galaxy Pro4 Edge was a negative and the battery life was one of the worst. [...]

After buying a desktop last year I sold my Thinkpad but I still wanted a laptop with a long battery life even if less powerful. I bought this Surface Laptop 7 sapphire color second hand because or RAM-pocalypse. A Snapdragon version to evaluate the ARM ecosystem […] [Original post on shelter.moe]

I've had the MacBook Pro 16" M1 and it was absolutely excellent. Replaced it last year with a 16" Surface Laptop 7 (Snapdragon ARM architecture) and that was not the best move.

I’m using a surface laptop 2 I bought in 2019, and I still love it… the battery 🪫 is not great anymore though…. I might get 3-4 hours out of it, processing excel and word docs and email

I know that Windows 11 doesn't get a ton of love on HN, but I have successfully replaced my M1 MacBook Air with a Surface Laptop 7. The build quality is great, and I even think that the Surface's haptic trackpad is superior. However, I don't think anything on the market beats the Macbook's speaker quality.

I recently switched from a XPS 13 with tons of issues, replaced twice, to a Surface Laptop 7 on ARM64. Absolutely no regrets, it's so much better. They really need to focus on quality control.

[...] I have a Surface Laptop 7 with a Snapdragon CPU on Windows 11 and it's been awesome so far. Insane battery life, especially in standby. I can reopen it after 48 hours and it only lost 3% of battery, while it stayed connected to WiFi and received notifications all along.

[...] I'm running the Tahoe developer beta, and in comparison to my Arm surface laptop 7, it's still light years better. I have no problems with Bluetooth, which is an endless struggle on Windows. I don't deal with windows update failures, windows installer service crashing and requiring a PC restart to install an MSI (happens constantly on the Arm devices), I don't have copilot being shoved down my throat, I'm not nagged to start an Office trial, or redirect my folders to OneDrive, or have ads in my app menu, etc. [...]

I just purchased the new Surface Laptop (7) coming from MacOS. I boot it up, ads are in the start menu, ads are in the weather app, ads are in the email application, ads are in the notifications, and edge’s start screen. [...]

[...] I love my Surface Laptop 7 plus and wouldn't trade it for any other pc. [...]

Bonus for ARM based laptops. My Surface Laptop 7 can charge just using my iPad power brick. So long as I’m not doing anything process heavy.

I bought a Surface Laptop 7 this year for $1800, which was $800 off of their regular price. And now the exact same laptop (without a discount) is $3700. It's insane.

I’ve never had such a fast Windows laptop before. It’s fun to work with it.

Been using a Surface Laptop 7 with Snapdragon X Elite lately and I gotta say I am REALLY impressed so far. But, I wish @frame.work would get ARM at some point, this device goes against all my principles of right to repair etc....

I bought this laptop and just opened it today. It is taking extremely long to update and finish the set up process. Is anyone else experiencing this?