Microsoft Surface Laptop | Copilot+ PC | 13.8” Touchscreen |
Snapdragon® X Elite (12 cores) | 16GB Memory | 512GB SSD | 2024
Model, 7th Edition | Sapphire : desertcart.co.uk: Computers &
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Review: Light, compact, cool and fast - The seller despatched
promptly and it arrived as expected. Bought this laptop to
replace my 10 year old MacBook Pro, on which I was running
bootcamp Windows. Similar spec, 32Gb RAM and 1TB hard drive. As
an aside, the MacBook cost the same in 2015 as this one in 2025,
cumulative inflation, according to government figures, has been
41% in that time, so you can pretty much guarantee the real
figure is more like 80%. So this tech equipment is much cheaper
in real terms than it used to be. Although the screen size is the
same, 15", this Windows Surface laptop is in a far more compact
package and much, much lighter. The MacBook ran hot, touching the
area around the keyboard was very hot to touch and the fans were
constantly running and quite loudly. With this machine, I've only
heard the fan come on once, and quietly at that - and I'm
probably what would be described as a power user, I use it as a
development machine so it's working hard all the time. The
keyboard and trackpad are as good, if not better than the Mac -
I've got my Delete key back(!) as well as Home, End, Page Up and
Page Down keys which the Mac annoyingly lacked. I was a little
dubious about the Snapdragon ARM processor, but the advantages
are clear, cool running and superior battery life. There are a
few apps that are built for the processor, but standard x64 apps
run perfectly well in emulation mode. You wouldn't know that they
aren't running natively. So, all in all, really pleased with the
machine, it's exceeded my expectations, very happy with it.
Review: Good laptop - 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.
