The 7th Edition of the Surface Laptop achieves a level of greatness never before seen in the line.
Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 MSRP $2,000.00 Score Details “The Surface Pro 7th Edition is the best Surface device I've ever used.” Pros Cons I’ve always been a fan of the Surface Laptop, but it always had two primary problems: performance and battery life. For the price it was being sold at, it could never hold up against the competition. Fortunately, with these new Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips, those two issues are supposedly resolved.
Remember that the MacBook Air, for example, starts at $999 but with just 8GB of RAM. For what it’s worth, Apple charges an extra $200 to jump from 8GB to 16GB but maxes out at 24GB. While the Surface Laptop 7th Edition can get up to 64GB but is limited to 1TB of storage. Lastly, the colorways have been reset. Gone are Sage green and the textured Alcantara. Now, there are just four options: Black, Platinum, Sapphire, and Dune. They don’t have quite as much character as the previous options, but they offer enough variation.
Display I’ve always loved the 3:2 screen of the Surface Laptop. With most laptops sticking at 16:10, the extra vertical space of the Surface Laptop remains one of its calling cards, and whenever I come back to it, I’m reminded of how much I prefer this screen shape. It’s not just the size that I like, though. This is also the best screen Microsoft has ever put in a Surface Laptop. It’s incredibly bright, with a max of 561 nits, while contrast hits 1440:1 at that full brightness.
Ports Both versions of the Surface Laptop come USB-A, USB-C, a Surface Connect dock, and a headphone jack. That’s a pretty solid balance of ports, though options like the Galaxy Book4 Edge add HDMI to sweeten the deal. Breaking down into the individual Snapdragon X chips, however, you’ll see where this configuration of the Surface Laptop 7 lands. It’s relatively in line with the HP OmniBook X, trading blows in the benchmarks, despite that it should technically be slightly faster. The main differences we’re seeing in performance between these chips, however, is between the Snapdragon X Plus and the top-end Snapdragon X Elite X1E84100, which is only available in the Galaxy Book4 Edge 16 right now.
Now, is there a ton of bass here? No, not exactly. The 15-inch MacBook Air still represents the apex of audio quality on this size of laptop, with its six-speaker setup and force-canceling woofers.
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