Microsoft Surface Laptop, 7th Edition

The poster child for Copilot+ PCs matches stylish looks with fast speeds and staggering battery life

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE As reviewed, £1,791 (£2,149 inc VAT) from microsoft.com Microsoft has toyed with Arm-based laptops for years, starting with the Surface RT back in 2012 and more recently the Surface Pro X (see issue 328, p91). But those were toes in the water. With the launch of Copilot+ PCs, which need at least 40 TOPS of AI processing power, it’s jumped right in and declared that the water is divine, switching both its headline laptops to the Arm platform. We start with the Surface Laptop – fans of the Surface Pro should turn to p52 – as both its 13.8in and 15in models include Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips. The bigger version, which I tested, only ships with the 12-core Elite X1E-80-100, but the cheapest 13.8in Surface Laptop includes the 10-core Plus X1P-64-100,…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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