AI, Arm, and Copilot: Living with Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7

COMMENT The Arm-based Surface Laptop 7 was introduced in 2024, followed by an Intel-powered version a few months later. As with much of the Surface line, it's a well-engineered piece of hardware. I needed something that could run off the battery for a full day, wouldn't break the strap of a courier bag or the bank, and featured a decent spec.

Enter the Surface Laptop 7. I bought the 13.8-inch tablet for £799 (c $1,100) from my local computer store. My configuration came with a bright 2304 x 1536 pixel screen, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD (which was actually more like 474 GB after formatting).

The Surface 7 isn't the lightest in the field, weighing in at 2.95 pounds (1.34 kg), when other laptops like the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon tip the scales at less than 2.5 pounds ...