MicrosoftSurface Laptop | Copilot+ PC | 15” Touchscreen | Snapdragon® X Elite (12 cores) | 16GB Memory | 256GB SSD | 2024 Model, 7th Edition | PlatinumEPEAT

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.

Had it for about 6 months. It’s absolutely brilliant and I only have positive things to say about it. I upgraded from a 2020 MacBook Air and have no regrets.I took the 16GB 1TB version with Elite chip. It’s powerful, premium , screen and battery are excellent. Copilot features are also really useful. Don’t even think I’ve heard the fan boot up yet and if it has , it’s so quiet.I use it for personal, work and xbox cloud gaming: all have worked flawlessly. Honestly dudes these ARM versions are game changers for windows and I’m not at this moment sure if I’d ever go back to a Mac after experiencing this machine and would be happy to stay in the Surface world, but only if they keep pushing out PCs like this.Ps - I don’t work for MS ! but I just wanted to emphasise that they did a brilliant job with this.If you’re on the fence , just give it a try. If it’s not for you , I mean it’s Amazon what do you have to lose , they don’t exactly make returns difficult!

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

Stunning build quality and specifications. Faster than the previous generation, cheaper by a significant amount, smaller lighter and thinner. The battery life is also longer. Although the OLED screen of Laptop2 had slightly better resolution, in practice it is not a deal breaker, which is probably why they changed it. The screen is non-removable, so no tablet mode.

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.