Surface Laptop 7 13.8" Snapdragon X Elite In Depth First Impressions | Can it Game?

[@bardknight]

I was in the market for a laptop recently and I was considering one of these Copilot laptops, but I'm glad I went with an Intel chip while they work out the issues with these. It is impressive how well they are working with emulation of older apps and as developers optimize for ARM I'm hoping that these become the norm in the future. Having a powerful computer with incredible battery life is the dream.

[@scaryifliteral]

It's been really surprising how few issues I've had. Granted, I'm not pushing it super hard, but pretty much everything I've tried has at least worked.

[@0xGrime]

Holy s***t thank GOD dude the first KZbinr who puts the damn specs in the description- you would think this is a no brainer holy crap dude thank you so much for not wasting my time. I’m subbing 😂

[@scaryifliteral]

😂

[@markfinlay422]

Thanks Shane. I know I will be going down this route some time not so distant!

[@williamcopeland2617]

Good review, Shane. I ordered my Surface Laptop 15 inch this morning and should have it tomorrow. I'm guessing after some firmware along with app updates, the computer should perform even better. Do a follow up video down the road. Thanks.

[@kratafila]

I have the sapphire blue 13.8 X Elite too. Awesome little device.

[@MJK0627]

I am so happy you did this review. I have been interested in possibly purchasing one of these for myself.

[@MadafakinRio]

Enjoy your device. It's money well spent, don't worry about it. If I had money, I'd definitely buy the Surface Pro OLED, it's perfect for me.

[@scaryifliteral]

Well spent might be a stretch lol. Thanks for watching though, that does help a little.. 😂

[@luc7976]

I always use matte screen protectors and they work really well for both anti-glare and fingerprints (for example Supershieldz anti glare and fingerprint matte).

[@psalmistpro2554]

I honestly thought that was a pixelbook go. Great video.

[@PrestoMoto02]

I would never buy a gaming laptop I have a nice desktop for that but for productivity this is the best laptop I’ve ever used

[@scaryifliteral]

That's pretty much where I'm at

[@akin242002]

Nice review. Could you test Power BI and Tableau?

[@vincentgagnon8569]

Loved the review and seeing where Microsoft is going (except Recall). An oled tablet running windows games natively on a powerful Arm chip combined with a powerful iGPU and a port fast enough to dock an external GPU, this with a sandwich controller would be my dream jack of all trade PC. May be in 5 years.

[@geraldhfc]

Great job

[@scaryifliteral]

Thanks!

[@Xshunin]

Really really love the new Elite X lineup. I know it's gonna be removed soon, but is it possible to test WSA on it? I always wanted to know if Android games on WSA on an ARM Windows just uses Level 1 hypervisor and straight up run directly on the ARM cpu?

[@jeanbaptistelabelle]

Funny to read in the title "gaming" when Snapdragon has repeated for more than 6 months that the Elite X is NOT for gaming !

[@scaryifliteral]

Qualcomm can't stop me from having fun lol. From what I can tell though, I agree with what Qualcomm has said. It's not for gaming, but it can absolutely do it to some degree.

[@dantebg100]

Well you are wrong because gaming is a very good test to see the real performance of the GPU. The problem with the x elite is that the CPU is very fast but the GPU sucks azz

[@scaryifliteral]

@dantebg100 I don't think he was being super critical. Perhaps stating the irony of the test which I can appreciate.

[@inamulbhuyan]

Snapdragon X Elite ❤❤

[@Futrd]

Is it recommendable for video editing

[@brocprice1]

No - maybe just small edits - for now

[@Drew-NL]

I am not sure if you will look at this but here goes: Will Nvidia or AMD / Snapdragon or Windows allow EGPU support? This would be for me the only reason to upgrade my M1, since apple keeps its system closed. Ive seen some vids where the adapter works, but when installing drivers it says no drivers available. So there might be hope?

[@otozinclus3593]

Yes, most X Elite notebooks have USB4, which includes Thunderbolt 3

[@PyromancerRift]

The only thing that matter is battery life. And it is very disapointing compared to AMD equivalent laptops. It requires a lot more power than apple M chips.

[@scaryifliteral]

Wild seeing anyone call the battery life very disappointing 😂

[@Gritino]

Nice stuff man as usual. No way I am buying one of those though 😂

[@mortinocano169]

Because...

[@Biglouravens]

Microsoft already has your data nothing to be concern about

[@parkay8616]

Please try Premier Pro 🙏

[@scaryifliteral]

Adobe is supposed to release a compatible version later this year

[@morpho7083]

You have spent the last several days trying to convince yourself to spend some money...

[@scaryifliteral]

That's the opposite of what I said lol

[@petehboy2]

I thought you were canadian

[@scaryifliteral]

Seriously? lol

[@petehboy2]

@scaryifliteral yeah you give off a canadian vibe. It's a good thing

[@DaBigCheeso]

Oof. They need to fix the Xbox games.

[@scaryifliteral]

Yeah, that's such a big oversight

[@sterus2283]

AMD is a lot better and will totally obliterate it with Strix Point.

[@scaryifliteral]

I think you're exaggerating. Strix Point will no doubt be very good, but obliteration is too strong lol. They ain't busting out exodia.

[@AryarajSingh-yo1hx]

Do you forget who is behind these chips?