a quick personal review of the surface laptop 7, and how it works for audio production

[@williamcopeland2617]

Good video. I have the 15-inch Surface Laptop 7 and so far, so good. I'm sure down the road all the major apps will get updated to run smoothly on the ARM chipset. One thing for certain, if a person wants to run every conceivable program and play every single game that's on the market buy a Windows PC with an Intel or AMD chipset. If you only need certain programs MacBooks and these ARM Windows PC's should be perfectly fine. Do an updated video in a couple months and keep us posted. Thanks.

[@rainbow_mess]

@@williamcopeland2617 Thanks! I’ll make sure to post an update video in a few months. At worst by the end of the year, depending on how quickly anything changes …

[@martinspedding4210]

I have Lenovo s7x and I am delighted with it. I have not had any problems and WSL works and so if I need Linux there is no problem. The M chips were the only interesting thing about macs and now that advantage is gone there is no reason to downgrade to a macbook

[@rainbow_mess]

@@martinspedding4210 Glad to hear the Lenovo laptop is working for you! :)

[@RondallaScores]

any problems on drivers on external audio interfaces?

[@rainbow_mess]

@@RondallaScores no, though I haven’t done anything with custom drivers. I did notice lag running emulate analog lab playing larger chords though, so am using an x86 laptop for that.

[@RondallaScores]

@@rainbow_mess i currently have the Behringer one but was quite hesitant because of driver problems.

[@RondallaScores]

@@rainbow_mess thanks for the comment tho!

[@rainbow_mess]

@@RondallaScores I think as long as it can use generic x86 drivers it's fine, and AFAIK that is what the behringers use - the lag situation isn't fantastic though, so it really depends on what you're doing with the interface. I didn't have interface problems just playing a controller like an astrolab through my scarlett 2i2 (other than emulation load as mentioned above ... the x86 emulation is definitely much worse than apple's). Windows does have a plan to bring Asio4All natively to ARM that they announced a little while ago that I'm planning to cover eventually in the update to this video - and that would solve any lag issues. The link is here: devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/making-music-on-windows/ - but the release date is TBA (with a 'dev preview' shipping sometime in 2025), so I wouldn't count on it yet.