Ah man. So many people seem to miss this point. Click the battery in the bottom right then click the battery again in the pop up window (with the percent), then under power modes change it to best performance. Then run your benchmarks again
@@JerrySchulze it's more since intel and AMD chips need those options as they're not as efficient. Less so for the new X elite but still it does provide users an option to be more economical. Not necessarily a bad thing since most consumers won't need the extra performance and so may as well have better battery.
It looks so nice! They've always colour matched it though, but not to this extent lol. Previously the device picture on the front was colour-matched, but now there's no picture and the box itself is colour-matched, which looks awesome. I do wish the device picture was at least on the back of the box for easy recognition lol
Just viewed this laptop at my Best Buy and the black color is what Space Black for Apple should've been. Gorgeous display even if it's not OLED and solid build quality.
Same, love my iPhone so tried to stay in the same ecosystem but something about macOS. So debating going back to the windows. All I ever really use on an Apple MacBook is Safari and iPhoto and I’m not sure it’s worth the price.
This would be me but I'll wait for Black Friday. I have an M1 Macbook Air and I can live without it. Might also wait for the Surface Laptop Go version of this it looks like these chips are great for a smaller form factor
@@COR0NAD0it is a pain in the ass ( for me ) to use macOS.. I thought oh iPhone all those years.. macOS should be easy.. I couldn’t be more far from the truth haha.. great thing to consider exactly al lot of handy things from macOS is also used in windows so win / win(dow)
I wouldn’t say surface laptops come close to the build quality of apple. I know what you mean. But every time i click on the trackpad, the mouse moves a little somewhere because of the trackpad design. Also, the surface laptops are 4x more likely to break down within the first 2 years of use. Real stat by third party using verified numbers. Also, we all know the longevity of windows laptops and the resale value.
It's really nice to know I'm not the only person who keeps the paper sleeve and everything else in the box...I still have my chargers and cables in my M2 air and M3 Pro... Also... Great video thanks for the content
There are some valid use cases for Recall, but Microsoft dropped the ball by not choosing to market it as an "optional" feature instead of pushing it in front of everybody's face just like they do with Edge. I do miss the Windows 10 timeline feature, which tells me what I worked on or opened, and it roams across devices.
You are literally my favorite laptop review channel and I love your videos but all the comments seem so toxic like they think you don’t know what you’re talking about, Jerry. The real ones know you’re solid
Wonderful video. Could you try using any Adobe apps like Illustrator and check if it runs smoothly. I use Illustrator on daily basis (I am a student). My current MSI laptop is powerful, but in terms of efficiency its may be -100 (assuming I can give that score), rendering the laptop useless for travel without the 240W charging brick.
Perhaps you should look at other Snapdragon/Copilot+ platforms. My fave so far is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14.5" OLED Touchscreen Copilot+ PC Laptop (Snapdragon X Elite) - beats the Surface equivalent model in several ways.
Also the pricing for the Lenovo is way much lower than a Surface Laptop with equivalent specs. The markup isn't insane if you upgrade to a larger SSD or memory.
Faster and cheaper with more features than apple, better battery life than amd. Its good to have choice each system will have uses and minuses and like the m1 the elite chips need software to be updated to get the best performance . But always be ware if first year products. 16gb standard and upgradeable ssd are huge for longevity. Price wise some elite models are close to bargains in some cases with oled 120hz touchscreens ports standard 16gb even 1 tb replaceable ssd standard on some snap models. Great medal build quality ports touchoads keyboards. But they do lack in the gpu soace no egpu or thunderbolt no diy upgradeable ram.
That is a beautiful laptop. I had 3 Surface devices in the past, and I think the Surface line has always set the standard for the rest of the Windows laptop industry.
Jerry, great review! Question. Will it charge over USB4/USBC or does it only charge with the Surface Connect port? Hello from Clear Island in Australia!
You should have mentioned that this particular unit is a LCD display, where all the 2024 Microsoft surface Pro and Laptops are available in OLED 120 Hz as well. Then the benchmark! most of the reviews are making the same mistakes. They are running the benchmark on a Balanced Power Mode that balances the CPU power and efficiency. It's not the true potential of this processor. On windows laptops, you have to change the power mode to Ultra\High Performance Mode and then run the benchmark to get the absolute best performance from the CPU. If you can not find the High performance mode under the battery settings, then you have to enable it through CMD. This is basically how the OEM's configure each specific models of laptops. I feel like you should have done some more research before making this video as people might not get all the info if they were to make a buying decision.
If this had Samsung Galaxy Book 3k 120hz touch oled and cheaper 32gb and 64gb ram upgrades it would be awesome. Kudos for upgradeable SSD and 16GB standard on all qualcomm laptops. Apple will have to make 16gb tje standard now especially with AI or sales will slow down. Apple could add upgradeable ssd e even apple silicon instead of super slow soldered 256 and 512 standard ones I dont think they will, but 16GB .512ssd should be the absolute min from now on. Dell and others will soon be releasing super fast super thin memory modules. So in about a year this may have upgradeable memory on thin and lights.
Now that there are actually good Windows laptops out there the choice between Macbook and Surface laptop got so much harder. I've been thinking about buying a Macbook for so long because of that great battery life and now that Microsoft matches that I am not sure if Macbook is still worth the complexity of switching platforms.
I actually have terrible skin and use lots of lotion and when I made this video, I was also surprised that I didn’t see fingerprints. I will definitely talk about that more in the MacBook comparison video.
Nice, I couldn’t remember if they had haptic or not on older versions. “ select all the ways you plan to use your device to get selected tips, ads, and personalization…”
Not really, the first surface laptop with haptic trackpad was the Surface Laptop Studio that came out either last year or 2 years ago. The remaining lineup has had physical trackpads until this year's models.
I wonder if all reviewers are under embargo, they got a laptop with NPU that claims 40 teraflops and absolutely no one of them try to run Ollama, LMstudio or anything that actual matches the whole point of the laptop. In device inference. Smh.
@@JerrySchulze I value privacy over AI being pushed on me. Seeing ads on my lock screen is frustrating because I prefer a clean, ad-free experience, which is why I use ad blockers. For instance, constant “Get a Microsoft 365 subscription” notifications are annoying-I’d rather keep things local and private. A Microsoft account feels like a security risk since hackers can target it for full access if passwords are reused. Honestly, I’d rather buy a MacBook Pro than use a PC with AI features like Copilot. Privacy should come first, but AI doesn’t get that. Plus, if it requires Edge, it’s useless to me since I prefer to stay offline. MacOS might be similar to Windows 11, but at least it respects my need for a less intrusive experience. Apple Store and Microsoft Store are pretty comparable, though.
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The video does a good job of presenting the features of this computer. However, I miss a comparison of the key differences with previous generations of the Surface line, specifically the use of the ARM based processor. Since this Laptop's processor is not based on the x86 architecture, the vast majority of Windows programs will not run natively but through the Prism emulator (similar to Rosetta on macOS). This is a very important distinction that the video highlights only briefly with the video game test. Until we have more tests on how efficiently x86 programs run through emulation (especially with multitasking), it's hard to judge whether purchasing these laptops is truly worth it. Additionally, the built-in Copilot features are underdeveloped. It's essentially the regular web version of Copilot that can be used in the Edge browser on any operating system. It seems that the release of this computer was rushed, as the software lags significantly behind what was shown at Microsoft's presentation.
Who in the world uses those SD cards at all? Let's just get over it and remove them completely. From the go pro I would rather plug in the usb c connector than mess around with physical cards.
I purchased recently 13.8 inch version of this laptop with snapdragon X-Plus chip. Battery life is just awesome! And build quality is excellent. Dune color looks very nice in person. There is no fan noise and neither gets hot. Runs cool. There are no intake air vents on back side of the machine and hence it seems truly works as a lap-top. Display is excellent. Audio is loud, clear and soothing. One of the best PC hands down based on my experience using many machines so far with amazing form factor, long battery life, running cool and great experience with Display/Audio. One thing I wish I could have done was bought 15 inch one since due to 3:2 display ratio, 15 inch does not seem too big to carry and it can provide much larger screen for work and key spacing on keyboard would be less cramped.
I absolutely love my MacBook and I switched over coz I was fed up of windows!!! I primarily use my MacBook for photography only and I love it but the SS 7 makes windows laptops look really interesting!!!! would you recommend this laptop for photography related apps like lightroom< photoshop etc??????
Finally a review of the 15 inch. Some of us want the larger screens. Could you speak to whether this would be a good replacement for my gigantic 16in M1 Mac Book Pro. I don't need all that power but I love having a larger screen for productivity reasons. I take my laptop to the cafe a lot to work.
"As a consumer" I would know to not buy a surface for gaming... seriously. How come you dont make videos with Macs not running games? and then say "as a consumer i expect this to work"? This makes no sense, people dont buy Macs to play AAA games, just like people dont buy Surface Pros to play games.... People buying these PCs along with the laptop 7 care about basic computing tasks, and that the battery lasts all day. Windows has never been able to get that "all day" battery life, now it does, with the benefit of not giving up performance. That's why people buy Macs too, for basic computing tasks and long battery life. Not gaming, or timespy or any of the non sense.
Are you referring to the shadow of tomb raider segment? That wasn’t a gaming test per se but more of a test of the translation there because both Apple and Microsoft need to translate from X86 to arm. This was just a comparison to see how the translation layer performed.
love this, the only issue i have with windows is that even when you buy a 4000$ laptop, (like my dell precision 4570) with windows 11 pro, it's filled with bloatware, the widgets suck and are just advertisements. Apple is so much more careful with their OS then Microsoft...
simple question: it looks good and all, but for the price, given it doesnt have a GPU, why not just buy an M3 macbook air and use parallels just when you need windows?
So basically "AI tools" means separate button on keyboard to maximize copilot window? Quite, freaking amazing! I never expected something that genius. It's like advertising a new car, particulary 7 seats car and then upon release make it 3 seats car. xD
Hi. Many thanks for the review. By now, will you have a better idea of the performance of this computer, not only from the point of view of productivity applications, but also in terms of games such as train simulators? (such as TrainSim Classic; Trainz; SimRail; Train Simulator World... well... train stuff, for train geeks who also need a good laptop for their professional and student life... bilieve me, we are no so few...)?
You know AI has taken over when Snapdragon X PC comes with a button that just open Edge to get to copilot Macbook air still better than this just without the Dumb part for Windows users they did the 180 for privacy and like hackers access to onedrive as soon as the user signs in Why talk about AI when is your PC not their service RIG Best part the new PC im getting I would trade my windows PC to Macbook for privacy and speed i trade AI Tools for real tools that would enhance me
Beware not to make same mistake as me ... bought surface pro elite and can't use Google Drive app anymore (not blaming MS but Google for that - guess i ll move to One)
i dont understand why is every youtuber praising this chip for efficiency while it is only slightly better than current amd offerings and upcoming intel and amd cpus will prbably atleast match the efficiency of this chip if not exceed it
Hi Jerry and others, I am in the market for a new laptop. Would you go for this latest Microsoft Surface or MacBook air M3? considering all specs, features, memory, ports etc? Thanks!
they made it sound like a stalker who sends my face the problem is where does the photo headed to because I try to find that out because if hacker access my PC to see my face than i got a problem because is was shared somewhere i can't see
copilot seems dumb, it seems as if it's gonna recommend using google for any questions we ask at it.. Providing generic information and so on. It doesnt look like the assistant it is advertised to be... What do you guys think?
I wish. The audacity to change standard key layouts for their stupid spyware is mind-boggling. Like people hit it as often as they do A-Z lol. How about e.g. dedicating F12 to it by default and making it customizable? Unfortunately, the masses will just shrug and gobble it up, as they do with all the other shenanigans from M$. 🙈
Thanks for the awesome review. I’d love to know the tilt angle of the screen. No reviewer is commenting on that, so would be great if you’ll be the first to do so!
Dell is the best imo. Have been using the XPS 13 Plus for more than a year now. I like it more than my M1 Pro 14' MBP. Just talking about the device [and not about performance, efficiency and battery life etc]. Hardware wise, I'd pick the XPS any given day over my MacBook.
I'm kind of on the fence about the 13.8 and the 15 inch model. I love the idea of a bigger screen but I also love a good design and the 15 inch model seems like an afterthought. There are these relatively big empty spaces around the keyboard and the smaller than ideal (from a design perspective) touchpad. You can tell that that the touchpad was made for the smaller version and then reused in the 15 inch model. It also bugs my OCD that the empty space around the touchpad isn't uniform. If that makes any sense. I had the same feeling about the MacBook Air 15 inch too. Maybe for weirdos like me the 13.8 model is the way to go 😁
I wouldn't praise quality so much plus Windows 11 sucks (wonder if Win10 works on it, if not - this hardware is USELESS), plus some idiocies about Bitlocker and stuff like that...
Please change the power profil and the power plan. Microsoft is weird. The power setting in Control Panel and the ones in the new Setting App are completely different and the combo of the two gives you different result. I’ve set High Performance in the Control Panel for all our computers at work then Balanced in the new Setting
I just wish they would finally get away from the proprietary dock port. Nobody needs this in 2024 with USB-C docks all around. Replace it with an hdmi port and it’s the perfect business and student laptop.
Micro SD card is perfect because you can "forget it" and use its extra space (512GB in my case) . I've store most data and one drive cache on it. This way I can live with only 512GB of SSD
This is so cool! I wonder if it will run Linux. I really want to know. Can anybody attempt this? Throw Winbloat on the junk pile and unleash the penguins 🐧
Copilot on Windows 12 shows an instruction video of Windows 11. Only Microsoft is able to deliver this kind of quality experience that will freak out non tech savvy users 🤣
So basically this is a laptop that uses the current edge explorer as an OS assistant, The same you can already on edge browser. Otherwise it's just another laptop with some cool features here and there
Failed terribly , I think we should wait and go for upcoming lunar Lake bcz arm for window will be around 4 years later with perfection. Anyone noticed that these new snapdragon laptop looks diff physically from whole lineup of their response company.
Your benchmark was running on balanced power mode i dont know if the macs also ran on balanced mode or high performance but you would get a bit more juice out of that machine using high performance power mode
the hinge looks weak or the display is heavy, it was shaking a lot while you were talking and shaking the table, If I wanna buy will go for the tablet version or will wait levono to make an x1 yoga which fold like an old yoga, they are immortal laptops, other people with plastic body or weak hinge will turn to crap in 2-3 years max
Razer Blade? yes XPS? nope that's a different type of build quality for the last two years Zephyrus? absolutely not also I guess you have never handled the surface laptop 6, it's literally a MacBook Air build for windows
They should bring back android emulation with ability to use any store on the system. Many useful android apps are compiled for ARM and can be used in this PC.
Recall was NOT the flagship features. What's that about?! It's just made the buzz, that doesn't mean it's something everyone, heck, ANYONE, was waiting for.
Didn't hear anything in this video about the display (how many nits in SDR, HDR, panel technology) and the speaker system (how is the base, how is it compared to a Macbook Air 15")... poorly done review. Thumbs down.
Hi, maybe you can reconsider as this was not a review at all. it was an unboxing and first impressions. I do hope you come back when I have a full review, though.
Trackpad is nowhere near large enough. Tried it in the store. Not sure why they couldn’t make it larger and closer to the edge like the 13 inch model and MACs.
Ah man. So many people seem to miss this point. Click the battery in the bottom right then click the battery again in the pop up window (with the percent), then under power modes change it to best performance. Then run your benchmarks again
You are right, but it also is very very stupid that this is a thing on windows laptops.
@@JerrySchulze bruh... who doesn't know that much? no wonder you use macs
So you are an apple fanboy. @@JerrySchulze
@@JerrySchulze it's more since intel and AMD chips need those options as they're not as efficient. Less so for the new X elite but still it does provide users an option to be more economical. Not necessarily a bad thing since most consumers won't need the extra performance and so may as well have better battery.
@@JerrySchulze it's really not it's a 3-step process and macs also have the same Thingy it's called High-Power Mode
I can't get over with the packaging that matches the color of the laptop themselves. We rarely see this
It looks so nice! They've always colour matched it though, but not to this extent lol. Previously the device picture on the front was colour-matched, but now there's no picture and the box itself is colour-matched, which looks awesome. I do wish the device picture was at least on the back of the box for easy recognition lol
So well designed! Still loving my Surface 3!
Just viewed this laptop at my Best Buy and the black color is what Space Black for Apple should've been. Gorgeous display even if it's not OLED and solid build quality.
You should see the Sapphire model, I have the Pro 11 in Sapphire and it's insane!
@@rowaystarco yep, it’s great but not available on 15 for some reason.
agreed
OLED is not good for eyes
@@JerrySchulze It seems like they reserve more colors for the models they anticipate to sell the most of.
Nice review ! Got mine yesterday feels indeed premium.. perfect replacement for MacBook Air ( could’nt get used to macOS haha )
Send me the old one plz. Savagely need a laptop but I m broke
Same, love my iPhone so tried to stay in the same ecosystem but something about macOS. So debating going back to the windows. All I ever really use on an Apple MacBook is Safari and iPhoto and I’m not sure it’s worth the price.
Get a job @@alexs.5107
This would be me but I'll wait for Black Friday. I have an M1 Macbook Air and I can live without it. Might also wait for the Surface Laptop Go version of this it looks like these chips are great for a smaller form factor
@@COR0NAD0it is a pain in the ass ( for me ) to use macOS.. I thought oh iPhone all those years.. macOS should be easy.. I couldn’t be more far from the truth haha.. great thing to consider exactly al lot of handy things from macOS is also used in windows so win / win(dow)
I definitely need one of these. But my bank accounts disagree
I wouldn’t say surface laptops come close to the build quality of apple. I know what you mean. But every time i click on the trackpad, the mouse moves a little somewhere because of the trackpad design. Also, the surface laptops are 4x more likely to break down within the first 2 years of use. Real stat by third party using verified numbers. Also, we all know the longevity of windows laptops and the resale value.
You like apple a lot
Very honest opinions 😂
Finally someone with the 15" version, thank you.
It's really nice to know I'm not the only person who keeps the paper sleeve and everything else in the box...I still have my chargers and cables in my M2 air and M3 Pro... Also... Great video thanks for the content
There are some valid use cases for Recall, but Microsoft dropped the ball by not choosing to market it as an "optional" feature instead of pushing it in front of everybody's face just like they do with Edge. I do miss the Windows 10 timeline feature, which tells me what I worked on or opened, and it roams across devices.
Mic is amazing.
You are literally my favorite laptop review channel and I love your videos but all the comments seem so toxic like they think you don’t know what you’re talking about, Jerry. The real ones know you’re solid
I appreciate that!
Waiting for power consumtion and performance, how is it unplugged and how long we can work on it!
Man these new surface devices are soooo smoooth. In my opinion they look better than macs!
Wonderful video. Could you try using any Adobe apps like Illustrator and check if it runs smoothly. I use Illustrator on daily basis (I am a student). My current MSI laptop is powerful, but in terms of efficiency its may be -100 (assuming I can give that score), rendering the laptop useless for travel without the 240W charging brick.
Adobe apps can't be installed
Perhaps you should look at other Snapdragon/Copilot+ platforms. My fave so far is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14.5" OLED Touchscreen Copilot+ PC Laptop (Snapdragon X Elite) - beats the Surface equivalent model in several ways.
Also the pricing for the Lenovo is way much lower than a Surface Laptop with equivalent specs. The markup isn't insane if you upgrade to a larger SSD or memory.
but they don't have pen support (which i need for work)
That lenovo's reversed camera notch tho 💀
Faster and cheaper with more features than apple, better battery life than amd.
Its good to have choice each system will have uses and minuses and like the m1 the elite chips need software to be updated to get the best performance .
But always be ware if first year products.
16gb standard and upgradeable ssd are huge for longevity.
Price wise some elite models are close to bargains in some cases with oled 120hz touchscreens ports standard 16gb even 1 tb replaceable ssd standard on some snap models.
Great medal build quality ports touchoads keyboards.
But they do lack in the gpu soace no egpu or thunderbolt no diy upgradeable ram.
That is a beautiful laptop. I had 3 Surface devices in the past, and I think the Surface line has always set the standard for the rest of the Windows laptop industry.
Gone for the 13 Model. They will only get better with future updates! Haters gonna hate! Great video my friend!
Yeah Intel and amd have their gaming while SD now can compete in business
Jerry, great review! Question. Will it charge over USB4/USBC or does it only charge with the Surface Connect port? Hello from Clear Island in Australia!
I would assume it charges with USB C as well. My surface pro 7 from 2020 has been charged with a usbc cable for forever
Hi, it charges from usbc also
You should have mentioned that this particular unit is a LCD display, where all the 2024 Microsoft surface Pro and Laptops are available in OLED 120 Hz as well.
Then the benchmark! most of the reviews are making the same mistakes. They are running the benchmark on a Balanced Power Mode that balances the CPU power and efficiency. It's not the true potential of this processor.
On windows laptops, you have to change the power mode to Ultra\High Performance Mode and then run the benchmark to get the absolute best performance from the CPU. If you can not find the High performance mode under the battery settings, then you have to enable it through CMD. This is basically how the OEM's configure each specific models of laptops.
I feel like you should have done some more research before making this video as people might not get all the info if they were to make a buying decision.
The laptops are not available as OLED.
What a sexy device! Microsoft is on the right track with this line of items
Man you do talk a lot! No need to over explain stuff 3,4 times. Midway through the video I lost all the energy
small nit pick but wish thwy added another USBC4/TB4 port on the other side too. Its so nice to have at least 1 on each side
If this had Samsung Galaxy Book 3k 120hz touch oled and cheaper 32gb and 64gb ram upgrades it would be awesome.
Kudos for upgradeable SSD and 16GB standard on all qualcomm laptops.
Apple will have to make 16gb tje standard now especially with AI or sales will slow down.
Apple could add upgradeable ssd e even apple silicon instead of super slow soldered 256 and 512 standard ones
I dont think they will, but 16GB .512ssd should be the absolute min from now on.
Dell and others will soon be releasing super fast super thin memory modules.
So in about a year this may have upgradeable memory on thin and lights.
Now that there are actually good Windows laptops out there the choice between Macbook and Surface laptop got so much harder. I've been thinking about buying a Macbook for so long because of that great battery life and now that Microsoft matches that I am not sure if Macbook is still worth the complexity of switching platforms.
What is the version of cpu? X1E-00-1DE? What is the performance settings when you do the geekbench test?
80, recommended. It’s dumb that this is still a thing in Windows laptops but I do get higher single core when changing to better performance.
Most beautiful laptop I've ever seen. Nice video. Professional opinion!
Either you are that Guy with really
Dry Skin or this Laptop doesn’t
show any fingerprints. 😅
I actually have terrible skin and use lots of lotion and when I made this video, I was also surprised that I didn’t see fingerprints. I will definitely talk about that more in the MacBook comparison video.
6:39 it's not for ads, it's how they setup preinstalled programs in your pc.
also, surface laptops have had haptic touchpads for a long time now.
Nice, I couldn’t remember if they had haptic or not on older versions.
“ select all the ways you plan to use your device to get selected tips, ads, and personalization…”
Not really, the first surface laptop with haptic trackpad was the Surface Laptop Studio that came out either last year or 2 years ago. The remaining lineup has had physical trackpads until this year's models.
@@trineroks This is correct. Haptic touchpads were previously only in the Surface Laptop Studio 1 and Surface Laptop Studio 2
I wonder if all reviewers are under embargo, they got a laptop with NPU that claims 40 teraflops and absolutely no one of them try to run Ollama, LMstudio or anything that actual matches the whole point of the laptop. In device inference. Smh.
I bought mine from Best Buy. I think I saw somewhere that Microsoft did not seed review units because of the late issue with shipping Recall.
What is your daily driver, Mac OS or Windows?
Mac
@@JerrySchulze I value privacy over AI being pushed on me. Seeing ads on my lock screen is frustrating because I prefer a clean, ad-free experience, which is why I use ad blockers.
For instance, constant “Get a Microsoft 365 subscription” notifications are annoying-I’d rather keep things local and private.
A Microsoft account feels like a security risk since hackers can target it for full access if passwords are reused.
Honestly, I’d rather buy a MacBook Pro than use a PC with AI features like Copilot. Privacy should come first, but AI doesn’t get that. Plus, if it requires Edge, it’s useless to me since I prefer to stay offline.
MacOS might be similar to Windows 11, but at least it respects my need for a less intrusive experience.
Apple Store and Microsoft Store are pretty comparable, though.
The video does a good job of presenting the features of this computer. However, I miss a comparison of the key differences with previous generations of the Surface line, specifically the use of the ARM based processor. Since this Laptop's processor is not based on the x86 architecture, the vast majority of Windows programs will not run natively but through the Prism emulator (similar to Rosetta on macOS). This is a very important distinction that the video highlights only briefly with the video game test. Until we have more tests on how efficiently x86 programs run through emulation (especially with multitasking), it's hard to judge whether purchasing these laptops is truly worth it. Additionally, the built-in Copilot features are underdeveloped. It's essentially the regular web version of Copilot that can be used in the Edge browser on any operating system. It seems that the release of this computer was rushed, as the software lags significantly behind what was shown at Microsoft's presentation.
Who in the world uses those SD cards at all? Let's just get over it and remove them completely. From the go pro I would rather plug in the usb c connector than mess around with physical cards.
would love to know if macos can run "properly" on this thing in a virtual machine.
I purchased recently 13.8 inch version of this laptop with snapdragon X-Plus chip. Battery life is just awesome! And build quality is excellent. Dune color looks very nice in person. There is no fan noise and neither gets hot. Runs cool. There are no intake air vents on back side of the machine and hence it seems truly works as a lap-top. Display is excellent. Audio is loud, clear and soothing. One of the best PC hands down based on my experience using many machines so far with amazing form factor, long battery life, running cool and great experience with Display/Audio. One thing I wish I could have done was bought 15 inch one since due to 3:2 display ratio, 15 inch does not seem too big to carry and it can provide much larger screen for work and key spacing on keyboard would be less cramped.
I absolutely love my MacBook and I switched over coz I was fed up of windows!!! I primarily use my MacBook for photography only and I love it but the SS 7 makes windows laptops look really interesting!!!! would you recommend this laptop for photography related apps like lightroom< photoshop etc??????
Finally a review of the 15 inch. Some of us want the larger screens. Could you speak to whether this would be a good replacement for my gigantic 16in M1 Mac Book Pro. I don't need all that power but I love having a larger screen for productivity reasons. I take my laptop to the cafe a lot to work.
"As a consumer" I would know to not buy a surface for gaming... seriously. How come you dont make videos with Macs not running games? and then say "as a consumer i expect this to work"? This makes no sense, people dont buy Macs to play AAA games, just like people dont buy Surface Pros to play games....
People buying these PCs along with the laptop 7 care about basic computing tasks, and that the battery lasts all day. Windows has never been able to get that "all day" battery life, now it does, with the benefit of not giving up performance.
That's why people buy Macs too, for basic computing tasks and long battery life. Not gaming, or timespy or any of the non sense.
Are you referring to the shadow of tomb raider segment? That wasn’t a gaming test per se but more of a test of the translation there because both Apple and Microsoft need to translate from X86 to arm. This was just a comparison to see how the translation layer performed.
love this, the only issue i have with windows is that even when you buy a 4000$ laptop, (like my dell precision 4570) with windows 11 pro, it's filled with bloatware, the widgets suck and are just advertisements. Apple is so much more careful with their OS then Microsoft...
Well, that is dell. Surface devices don’t come with that crap.
simple question: it looks good and all, but for the price, given it doesnt have a GPU, why not just buy an M3 macbook air and use parallels just when you need windows?
Absolutely great question.
@JerrySchulze Please review battery life
So basically "AI tools" means separate button on keyboard to maximize copilot window? Quite, freaking amazing! I never expected something that genius. It's like advertising a new car, particulary 7 seats car and then upon release make it 3 seats car. xD
ha! More to come so that's why I wanted to wait to fully address AI between these machines.
Hi. Many thanks for the review. By now, will you have a better idea of the performance of this computer, not only from the point of view of productivity applications, but also in terms of games such as train simulators? (such as TrainSim Classic; Trainz; SimRail; Train Simulator World... well... train stuff, for train geeks who also need a good laptop for their professional and student life... bilieve me, we are no so few...)?
You know AI has taken over when Snapdragon X PC comes with a button that just open Edge to get to copilot
Macbook air still better than this just without the Dumb part for Windows users
they did the 180 for privacy and like hackers access to onedrive as soon as the user signs in
Why talk about AI when is your PC not their service RIG
Best part the new PC im getting I would trade my windows PC to Macbook for privacy and speed i trade AI Tools for real tools that would enhance me
Beware not to make same mistake as me ... bought surface pro elite and can't use Google Drive app anymore (not blaming MS but Google for that - guess i ll move to One)
First adopters!
Thrilled to hear that you like the haptic touchpad, which is powered by Sensel's haptics technology. Thanks, Jerry! 🙏
Typing your questions rather than speaking to Co-pilot ... so 1990's dude.
My bad
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It's very good that this feature is not implemented. A feature for very few that will affect the privacy of many.
i dont understand why is every youtuber praising this chip for efficiency while it is only slightly better than current amd offerings and upcoming intel and amd cpus will prbably atleast match the efficiency of this chip if not exceed it
It’s new so it’s exciting.
Hi Jerry and others, I am in the market for a new laptop. Would you go for this latest Microsoft Surface or MacBook air M3? considering all specs, features, memory, ports etc? Thanks!
You keep saying it looks and feels like a premium device. Do you think it is a premium device or not? I’m a little confused.
Yes
Windows Hello is older than Face ID
they made it sound like a stalker who sends my face
the problem is where does the photo headed to because I try to find that out because if hacker access my PC to see my face than i got a problem
because is was shared somewhere i can't see
Idk about benchmarks but this is the best looking windows laptop I have see in a long time
Yep
In a long time? I'd say ever.
Xps line looks better.
copilot seems dumb, it seems as if it's gonna recommend using google for any questions we ask at it.. Providing generic information and so on. It doesnt look like the assistant it is advertised to be... What do you guys think?
Lots of defensive Apple haters in these comments lol
Totally. They’re really toxic.
Great, a chatbot key no one asked for. Can't wait to see their sales slump for the entire year until they remove that moronic key.
I wish. The audacity to change standard key layouts for their stupid spyware is mind-boggling. Like people hit it as often as they do A-Z lol. How about e.g. dedicating F12 to it by default and making it customizable? Unfortunately, the masses will just shrug and gobble it up, as they do with all the other shenanigans from M$. 🙈
That black sure looks ❤️
I’ve noticed it only has USB, USBC and charger ports. Can it connect to a monitor for dual display?
This is gonna keep my eyes looking at the camera look
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…did it work?
would love a 17 inch version of this
Unless it gives me 20 hours of battery life Idc
Can I easily install Linux on this device ? Or does Microsoft lock down the device to Windows only ?
Thanks for the awesome review. I’d love to know the tilt angle of the screen. No reviewer is commenting on that, so would be great if you’ll be the first to do so!
At the beginning of the video, when he opens the laptop, that's as far as it goes back!
@@anthony8890 Would be great to know the angle in degrees
Dell is the best imo.
Have been using the XPS 13 Plus for more than a year now.
I like it more than my M1 Pro 14' MBP.
Just talking about the device [and not about performance, efficiency and battery life etc].
Hardware wise, I'd pick the XPS any given day over my MacBook.
sold my macbook pro for it and its awesome loving it so far having some issues is driver for a label printer which is a bummer
How good are the speakers any where near the mac and is it a 16.9 aspect picture?
I'm kind of on the fence about the 13.8 and the 15 inch model. I love the idea of a bigger screen but I also love a good design and the 15 inch model seems like an afterthought. There are these relatively big empty spaces around the keyboard and the smaller than ideal (from a design perspective) touchpad. You can tell that that the touchpad was made for the smaller version and then reused in the 15 inch model. It also bugs my OCD that the empty space around the touchpad isn't uniform. If that makes any sense. I had the same feeling about the MacBook Air 15 inch too. Maybe for weirdos like me the 13.8 model is the way to go 😁
I wouldn't praise quality so much plus Windows 11 sucks (wonder if Win10 works on it, if not - this hardware is USELESS), plus some idiocies about Bitlocker and stuff like that...
Bro are you for real ?
The price of the laptop is
500$ please 🙏 tell me
Please change the power profil and the power plan. Microsoft is weird. The power setting in Control Panel and the ones in the new Setting App are completely different and the combo of the two gives you different result. I’ve set High Performance in the Control Panel for all our computers at work then Balanced in the new Setting
biggest prob i m having google drive desktop is not downloading and google don't support ARM. does anyone have a solution for google drive desktop.
They are working on it, next couple months it will be out.
Hey man. Thanks for it. I think lot of us want to see some apps for work. For me some of apps for design like photoshop or 3dmax, blender
I can't seem to integrate co pilot in my applications?
Stunning device! The only thing I wish is the trackpad to be as big as the one on Mac. 😆
I think the 14” MacBook Pro size is perfect, this is a bit smaller than that.
I just wish they would finally get away from the proprietary dock port. Nobody needs this in 2024 with USB-C docks all around. Replace it with an hdmi port and it’s the perfect business and student laptop.
Micro SD card is perfect because you can "forget it" and use its extra space (512GB in my case) . I've store most data and one drive cache on it. This way I can live with only 512GB of SSD
This is so cool! I wonder if it will run Linux. I really want to know. Can anybody attempt this? Throw Winbloat on the junk pile and unleash the penguins 🐧
Nice laptop, but it is an AI PC without AI
Copilot on Windows 12 shows an instruction video of Windows 11. Only Microsoft is able to deliver this kind of quality experience that will freak out non tech savvy users 🤣
So basically this is a laptop that uses the current edge explorer as an OS assistant, The same you can already on edge browser. Otherwise it's just another laptop with some cool features here and there
Failed terribly , I think we should wait and go for upcoming lunar Lake bcz arm for window will be around 4 years later with perfection. Anyone noticed that these new snapdragon laptop looks diff physically from whole lineup of their response company.
Your benchmark was running on balanced power mode i dont know if the macs also ran on balanced mode or high performance but you would get a bit more juice out of that machine using high performance power mode
Nice you look very healthy! 👍🏻
Question! How does it perform in color mode and sound quality, compared to a Mac book? I thought it has sRGB mode.
That is a color options along with vivid. I will check with color checker.
You can configure all the 2024 surface laptops with a OLED 120 Hz display that have excellent color.
I'm tempted to get one just because I'm tired of dealing with apple's crappy keyboards.
Ima buy galaxy book 4 edge
Side by side, iPad’s color looks much better. But nice try, Microsoft, keep it up
Crappy copy of an Apple's macbook with poor performance. Piece out ✌
the hinge looks weak or the display is heavy, it was shaking a lot while you were talking and shaking the table, If I wanna buy will go for the tablet version or will wait levono to make an x1 yoga which fold like an old yoga, they are immortal laptops, other people with plastic body or weak hinge will turn to crap in 2-3 years max
Guess you enver saw a Zephyrus G14 2024, Razer Blade and Dell XPS laptops. Because they match Apple build quality.
Razer Blade? yes
XPS? nope that's a different type of build quality for the last two years
Zephyrus? absolutely not
also I guess you have never handled the surface laptop 6, it's literally a MacBook Air build for windows
@@itsmilan4069 I think you havent handled a recent XPS nor a recent Zephyrus, I own the G14 2024 and a MBP M3 max.
Sad to see the surface power connector.
Come on, everyone else is just using USBC/Thunderbolt.
I mean, Apple has MagSafe. I was same boat as you but I guess the option is nice.
Could Microsoft put that now-removed AI feature as an extension of some sorts? Like how in Windows OS in general we can add features extensibly.
They should bring back android emulation with ability to use any store on the system. Many useful android apps are compiled for ARM and can be used in this PC.
Recall was NOT the flagship features. What's that about?! It's just made the buzz, that doesn't mean it's something everyone, heck, ANYONE, was waiting for.
Didn't hear anything in this video about the display (how many nits in SDR, HDR, panel technology) and the speaker system (how is the base, how is it compared to a Macbook Air 15")... poorly done review. Thumbs down.
Hi, maybe you can reconsider as this was not a review at all. it was an unboxing and first impressions. I do hope you come back when I have a full review, though.
@@JerrySchulze done- my bad. Apologies, I took this as a review. As a fire impression video, well done; changed to thumbs up!
Thanks for hearing me out!
I hope they will make budget Windows ARM laptops for most people who are non-hi-end general users
they have haptic touchpad for a long time now
Nope, not on the surface laptop.
Its 2024 and several manufacturers offer products of similiar build quality and design. Like the Asus Zenbook S line or some of the Dell xps models.
Trackpad is nowhere near large enough. Tried it in the store. Not sure why they couldn’t make it larger and closer to the edge like the 13 inch model and MACs.
As a software engineer which I primarily develop in windows/linux this is a no brainer over my m1pro 16inch.
What is that big black blob on uour phone? Bad screen?
Ha! The iPhone dynamic island?
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Lovely impediment to the screen.