Is ARM Overhyped?? - Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 REVIEW (+ Gaming Benchmarks)
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Surface Laptop 7 (Snapdragon X Plus):
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Today I'm going to be reviewing the long awaited Surface Laptop 7, with the ARM Snapdragon X Elite chip. People have wanted some solid competition to the Macbook's M-series chips on Windows for a while, because they're very power efficient. So does this tiny laptop deliver the promises it made, or is it overhyped, and doomed to repeat the mistakes Microsoft made back in 2017?
Chapters:
0:00 Unboxing
0:27 Design + Build Quality
1:27 Specifications
1:44 Ports / I/O Selection
2:01 Magnetic charger
2:55 Keyboard
4:02 Touchpad / Trackpad
4:59 Display / Screen
6:06 Speakers / Sound
6:44 Webcam + Microphone Quality
7:05 Performance (ARM x86 Emulation)
9:00 ROBLOX
9:22 Minecraft
10:16 Battlefield 1 (BF1)
10:37 Counter-Strike 2 (CS2)
11:01 Counter-Strike SOURCE (CSS)
11:21 Games that DIDN'T run
11:34 Copilot button + AI Stuff
12:24 Battery life
12:56 Is it worth it? + Pricing
14:18 SIKRIT ;)) - Věda a technologie
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I love this review style. Awesome Job
Thank you! :D
I think this laptop good for work in app where dont need a big power, and aslo for programing and code redactor.
Exactly, well said
@Godbro17 absolutely agree. With lower load those snapdragon x chip are excellent, with few short burst high loads doing very well. Exactly my use case.
@@jirikocmanthe CPU is blazing fast, the problem when doing more advanced stuff is the GPU, very underwhelming, at the level of a smartphone
@nick0_ yes, not my usecase so i do not focus on it
Excellent videos man!
Thank you! :)
I hope you're not buying this with your own money knocking on and pushing the screen like that. I destroyed my mbpro screen with less
Haha seriously. A little excessive pushing keys as well….
Gotta know how much it can handle :)
If you are going to game on a laptop, make sure it's an Intel or AMD based laptop. Unfortunately, ARM based laptops suck at gaming. And it looks like you simply have a bad unit. Andrew Marc David's video review on the Surface laptop 7 running a native 4k video, in recommend battery mode, 120hz and 40% brightness he got 20 hours and 9 minutes of battery life. If you decide to keep your laptop, I would have it replaced immediately.
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I also think the cheapest model is the reasonable one to get, and just replace the SSD with a 2TB one. Because the upgrades (especially here in Europe) are outrageously priced. For 32GB RAM (arguably almost basic) you'd have to pay 2500 euros - and you'd get a laptop for that amount that has lots of compatibility compromises, no OLED screen, and the very same CPU as the second cheapest model. Also, according to some reviews the 13.8 inch model can't even really utilize the Elite CPU, and the graphics performance is exactly the same.
According to Qualcomm, RAM speeds go up to 8448MHz for this model and the speakers are located under the keyboard!
Thanks for the info!
Reason why it lasts only 8hrs of YT is that 100% brightness. Go for 50% and you will see noticable difference. Take in Account that 54Wh battery in Laptop 7 is that lower in new SGX powered Laptops. Anyway with 40% brightnes can lasts around 20hrs YT playback, that is about 2,7W/hr. And for older laptop, try to say what brightnes in nits it have and how big battery. It matters to considering effeciency.
I got basic Surface Pro 11 and during YT playback of 4k 30Hz video with about 50% brightnes and 25% volume it goes less than 4,2W/hr for longer session. But Pro have higher resolution screen. 60Hz video have higher impact to consumption - about one Watt more.
Seems that Chrome is little bit more power effecient for most video playbacks than Edge, difference is small, somewhat 0,2-0.3W in most cases, but 4,2W vs 3,9W is noticable difference.
Btw Surface Pro 11 with IPS display, lowest brightnest, idle 2,4W, max brightness, idle 6,7W
That's very interesting, thanks for the detailed info!
My main issue with it is that it's not a dramatic battery life increase like it was with the M-series macbooks. I think Microsoft really needs to tweak this chip and its drivers before it can perform its best, but so far it's really nice :)
@@crimsontechyt Snapdragon X is based on CPU cores for Servers and does not include effeciency cores as M chips, same as Apple is superior with own design. But for first Qualcomms attempt to restart Windows on Arm it is very promissing. And more vendors for WoA chips will come like Mediatek as until end of year there is still Qualcomm exclusivity to WoA. I guess that even AMD and Intel will join Arm party in future.
Biggest issue is compatibility. If someone needs apps which does not run wll or does not run at all, it is deal breaker, but it will change in future as developers will adpot WoA more and more. Same is applicable for gaming, but right now those devices are not meant as gaming machines and games relying on anticheat will not run until vendors include SGX to their SW. Of course some will run worse or will crash often due to compatibility and driver issues. But many, especially older games will run just fine, even raw GPU perfromance is not that great as for AMD or Apple iGPUs.
For me WoA works really well, most applications I need to use are Arm64, few smaller ones are x86_64, like TC, Audacity, LogiOptions, FastStone, but runs well, I do not notice that those runs under emultion. My surprise is how snappy it is. Best Windows experience ever, even it feels quicker than my 14" M1 MBP.
Performance absolutely is great for such a thin 13 incher. It barely gets hot or loud, and battery life is great so far.
As long as some more devs get on board with supporting this architecture, this might be the only way to go in the future!
Does it take a 120 font sized warning sign on the package to tell you the product is not suitable for gaming?
You're right, i shouldn't have tested it at all. In fact, i shouldnt even do benchmarks, since that might offend the overlords at Microsoft 🙌🏻
If you want to play game , please buy NV GPU RTX4050/4060/4070/4080/4090 Laptop, thanks.
I think the issue of when u touch the screen it becomes more stable may be due to the variable refresh rate, not really sure but i saw another review from @DawidDoesTechStuff and he that issue