MacBook Air M2 vs Surface Laptop 7 Snapdragon X Elite

Macbook Air M2, 8Gb vs Surface Laptop 7 Snapdragon X Elite and 16GB RAM
The Macbook puts in a very respectable performance against the Surface Laptop but in spite of running FL Sudio natively is still using more of its processor than the Surface Laptop (which also has to run the App in its own x86 emulation layer)
Biggest surprise for me was just how well the SQ3 ARM based Surface Pro 9 from last year performed in this same battle just recently on this channel!
Note that the Windows 11 version used here was the initial release with all day one updates completed
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[@RemofRenaissance]

What?! You did it already?! Incredible. 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@LiVeWiRez]

Would you mind doing a video decoding comparison with KZbin 4k60 and 8k60 videos ? Curious to see how many frames the Elite chip drops if any.

[@CanaldoOTA]

Nice How Snapdragon X Elite handles latency?! DPC latency monitor For using as sound module(controler + vsti pianos)

[@ivangr3470]

Great video keep up the good work

[@ianwalker2258]

Thanks, will do!

[@lakshayyadav17]

Your voice is so satisfying! It makes me calm

[@ianwalker2258]

Oh thank you!

[@LiVeWiRez]

👍🏽 great to see this new arm win laptop running FL studio non-native app so well. I'm tempted to replace my Intel laptop soon.

[@ianwalker2258]

Go for it! Wait, belay that if you are running a control surface check that the driver has been recompiled for ARM

[@JamesButcher]

nice comparison - though will be interesting to see how it performs once ASIO drivers are available for Windows on ARM

[@godboat.]

if ever :/

[@ianwalker2258]

The FL Studio ASIO driver (the default?) seems to work OK

[@JamesButcher]

@@ianwalker2258 does it list the latency of the driver? should be under 10ms

[@ianwalker2258]

@@JamesButcher Says 9ms

[@hollisterholliday9428]

This is good. What are those strings ? VST or a sample pack?

[@ianwalker2258]

I don't know as the music is from an FL Studio demo and the strings are wavs

[@rudrapuraan9791]

this is so me :- talking to myself for no reason

[@sasmitha8446]

Hi i have a question. How well do the ASIO drivers run on Windows on ARM?

[@ianwalker2258]

Good question, I haven’t noticed any issues yet but just on day 2 so will try and monitor it for you.

[@godboat.]

asio is actually running?

[@ianwalker2258]

@@godboat. Yes, seems to be OK but have not done extensive testing

[@whatskrakin37]

Just about to go pickup my SL7 at BestBuy, kind of thinking about the Samsung too for its OLED but not sure about that.

[@asrp4284]

I think the surface is better overall build quality

[@shaikhhar6911]

OLED only good for entertainment. Not for productivity as they cause more eye strain because of flickering

[@jeffrey123520]

Great video, happy to see snapdragon x elite can run fl studio. Looking for arm pc can run blender/ photoshop/ davanci resolve/ fl studio with av1 encoder

[@ianwalker2258]

Any of the new Co-Pilot devices will do that for you but you might want to go for 32GB RAM

[@godboat.]

thank you, could you test ableton live 12?

[@ianwalker2258]

I will try!

[@seachill]

does the ASIO driver work? if not, what is the alternative?

[@ianwalker2258]

I use the FL Studio asio driver (which i think is probably the default). It worls fine.

[@seachill]

@@ianwalker2258 Thank you. I was waiting for someone to confirm if it's working or not before I order one

[@az50056]

wow superb

[@ianwalker2258]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@diuran1919]

Need change how you're recording your voice almost not hear you, muffed to much.

[@moviesynopsis001]

Which trackpad do you find better?

[@ianwalker2258]

Oh, good question. I am more used to using the Surface trackpads so am biased I think

[@moviesynopsis001]

@@ianwalker2258 Is it any better than previous generation surface laptop trackpads?

[@him_studio]

i'm there to see the truht 😁😁😁😁😁

[@nov.shubhs]

The touch screen impacts performance as well so it can never be 1:1 with Macbook. Perhaps you can disable that.

[@ianwalker2258]

Personally I would never want to