MicrosoftSurface Laptop | Copilot+ PC | 15” Touchscreen | Snapdragon® X Elite | 32GB Memory | 1TB SSD | Latest Model, 7th Edition | BlackEPEAT

Selected this laptop to replace an intel 155h metor lake Lenovo as I was becoming tired of hearing the fans continually spin up even when doing basic web browsing.This Microsoft surface is better built, much much quieter and has great battery life. This laptop is mostly used to edit photos and make YouTube shorts whilst being a general word processing/web browsing machine. There was a concern that the X Elite chip would be a hindrance with compatibility, however I have found that every application/program that I use works and is native to the ARM architecture.It is a proper zippy machine where lag and waiting for things to load are not really noticed and the efficiency of the chip out matches the previous intel chip. A couple of examples, all of which are unplugged, zoom call with my photography club for 2 hours - Intel 40% battery drain - X Elite 20%.When using affinity photo 2 there was a significant difference in battery usage where intel would lose 35-40% editing multiple photos for HDR merge, focus merging, colour grading and moving the photos from multiple folders on my external hard drive. This would be over a 1-1.5 hour session roughly processing 100 images. The X Elite again is about twice as efficient in managing a similar workload using around 20-25% of battery. It is astonishing, plus is quiet, near silent.The screen is great but a bit more reflective than I'd like. I don't use the touch screen very often so will not comment on it on than to say it works.The build is exceptional, feeling very solid in the hand.Overall really pleased with this laptop and am actually thinking that this will still be relevant, in terms of performance, for my usage for a good few years.

Positives:The laptop is quiet when runningApps run quickly when being opened/usedKeyboard and screen both seem good qualityNegatives:Many apps are poorly optimised for the processor, onenote for example can’t upload word documents or powerpoints as printouts (a function which my 10 year old surface pro on windows 10 can do just fine). I spent 2 hours with Microsoft support who eventually told me that this is a known bug with no current fix. After searching on the internet this bug has been prevalent for over a year and Microsoft have done nothing to rectify it.In the three days of using this laptop it has been beset by issues. My OneDrive has stopped working tonight and so I am factory resetting the device to see if it will fix it.Laptop is surprisingly slow to turn onNot compatible with laptop pensOverall I don’t see any clear benefits over a £300 laptop and this feels like a complete waste of money. I chose a top spec laptop expecting it to have excellent functionality and it has failed miserably so far in that regard. My 10 year old surface pro is slow but otherwise better in all the key areas I am looking for

Felt I needed a Windows laptop as well as my trusty Macbook because a lot of my work and course stuff is presented on Windows.Highly functional with as much a quality feel as my Macbook Pro and the battery life really is excellent

Somehow I miss those good ol' days when I had to set aside a whole weekend to activate a new PC. I was never quite sure whether it would be ready for work on Monday.I have, and have had, several Macs and have been running Windows 11 on a VMware virtual machine (Intel MacBook Pro) for a while. I was proud to be an early adopter of Apple stuff (from eMac onwards) but I think they have lost their edge - from a software and PC perspective. I will, however, never (say never) give up on my iPhone or Watch. So, I made the radical decision to switch back to my roots - native Windows, this time on a Microsoft machine (I used to be a Thinkpadder). Well - I'm happy (save for having a free weekend to do some gardening). Build quality, keyboard, processing power and battery are all excellent. Great display (remember those days when you bought a new laptop and the thing you dreaded most was how many dead pixels you would find on the first boot-up?) - Oh, yes, and it's a touch screen. Works really well too - when I remember that I can use my fingers or stylus to poke at it. I installed Visio 2016 - Microsoft retained my licence keys, which is another bonus. The setup process automatically configured the HP printer settings (along with many other settings) from a copy it took of my previous Windows VM. Couldn't believe it at first - had to print a document to verify.In summary: I feel like I've just come home from a long trip away.