Microsoft Surface Laptop Copilot+ EP2-30714 - 13'' Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 16GB 512GB SSD

Microsoft Surface Laptop | Copilot+ PC | 13” LCD Touchscreen | Snapdragon® X Plus | 16GB Memory | 512GB SSD | Latest Model, 1st Edition | Platinum : desertcart.co.uk: Computers & Accessories 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. Review: Cracking toast Gromit! - As good as Microsoft get! (Which is not too shabby).