Been waiting for an Android friendly laptop to be just as good if not better than a MACBOOK since I have a Samsung which is not compatible with Apple products. Love it so far all the features are so great definitely make studying easier and can see in bright sun lighting. It's looks so slick and love the dune color.

Nice build quality and the trackpad is awesome. It’s a great laptop, but don’t see what makes this an AI PC…

Received the laptop today. USB & USB-C ports were not recognizing external items including my camera and external drive. Spent two hours trying to resolve the port issue. One of those hours was troubleshooting with MS directly. Finally gave up. More issues in one day with the Laptop 7 than I had in 4 years with the Laptop 3. Box is already taped up and ready for pickup.

I'm a software engineer, and purchased this mainly out of curiosity to try and boot Linux on it. I managed to get a custom version of Ubuntu to boot to desktop, launch Firefox, etc using a USB keyboard, mouse, and boot drive (the installer for Ubuntu even sort of works, minus some bootloader issues regarding efivars). I was also able to install to the internal NVME drive as well, but unfortunately it seems that this is where things are a bit problematic from a standardization standpoint. Qualcomm's EFI implementation doesn't seem to support efivars, so you can't set Ubuntu as a boot option in the EFI boot menu (it only supports actual hardware drives as boot options). Installing the EFI executable in the standard location for the EFI boot directory doesn't work either. It turns out, that the EFI bootloader checks in the Microsoft directory first, then in the regular boot directory, so it's necessary to rename the Microsoft one to something else if you want to dual-boot Linux and Windows. This also means that it's currently not possible to enroll a custom secure boot key, so secure boot must be turned completely off to dual-boot Linux (as it can't be done with the signed Canoncical kernels, as each board will likely require a different kernel, and none of this is supported by the official kernels yet, this would also be very difficult for Canonical to maintain if they need to make a separate kernel for each board, which is unfortunately fairly typical for ARM devices in general. This is a problem I thought Microsoft would have solved, given how they standardized the PC platform on x64, but this doesn't seem to be the case). Another major issue with booting Linux even before you get to the kernel, is the bootloader starts in EL1, not EL2. There's a proprietary mechanism by which to escalate from EL1 to EL2 (Qualcomm secure launch) , but this only works for signed Windows binaries, so makes hypervisors effectively impossible to implement in Linux for this board. Additionally, Qualcomm uses non-standard ACPI descriptors for USB (XHCI). To initialize USB, you need to patch xHCI to bind to QCOM0D08, as it uses this descriptor rather than the standard PNP0D10, and isn't on the PCI bus like you'd expect on a PC (it's an ARM peripheral instead). Bringing up wifi didn't work with standard openly available firmware either, so relevant files had to be extracted from the Windows drivers for firmware, which got the ATH12k chip (which is actually on the PCI bus, along with NVME) to start up. Unfortunately, very little about this is standard, and each ARM board is likely to be slightly different. HID for example appears to be on a proprietary bus, and bringup of all these new ARM PCs will be very tricky for the Linux community to try and support. Virtualization support for Linux in Windows is also poor, with the USBIPD driver not supporting aarch64, and no way for the vendor to support aarch64 due to the closed-source nature of Windows Drivers (they currently rely on a shim driver from VirtualBox). Also from what I can tell there's no exposed serial port for debugging on this board, so if you're also bringing up Linux on this, make sure to use console=efifb as a kernel parameter to get debug output during bringup.

Extremely fast, responsive, and sleek! Love it!

I have had my surface laptop 7 for 2 days now, and I am not going to get all technical in this review. First the design and build is really nice. While it does not look thin by today's standards, it does not look thick either. One feature I like is that there are no vents at the bottom. I can safely have this on my lap and not worry about the airflow. Also, finally very thin bezels on a Microsoft laptop. The laptop is a decent bit smaller than the HP Spectre 14 I have as well. It is a really clean design. The display was the biggest surprise for me because I am used to the display in the surface pro 9 and thought it was merely okay. This one while still not OLED, looks like the one on the pixel tablet with vibrant colors that have a bit of a pop. battery life and performance is all out there and the snapdragon plus I have performs great. Windows finally have laptops that are easy to recommend to standard folks. By standard I mean people like me who are not buying their laptop for work, but to use to wind down or for light duty activities. You can get the elite version that offers more performance, but this is more of an i5 vs i7 debate with the Snapdragon plus offering about 90% of the elite performance. The battery life is finally like a MacBook too with all day+ endurance. I don't want to be too long winded, and there a number of snapdragon laptops just released making the decision not always easy. Many good choices, but i choose the Surface Laptop 7 because of the closed vents at the bottom, nice build, haptic touchpad, fast refresh screen, and good price. it was between this one and the Samsung one, but the Samsung is 1349, versus the 1079 I paid for the Surface. At last, as a windows user, I don't have to daydream about a MacBook made for windows when it is already here, and we got options!

Absolutely love this laptop so far Do mostly research / web browsing. Optimized for my usage (I got 32gb version).

The windows experience is so much refined. I would not say it beats macbook but it has it own position in the market. Points : a. Well built - Copied Mac on the keyboard quality, Haptic touch pad, screen to bezel ratio, overall feel and texture of the laptop feels that you wanna have it and bring it everytime for your every day use. I am happy Microsoft took cues from Apple on this. No harm on it. b. Software - This section Microsoft is leap and bound ahead of Mac os. They have kept all the good things and worked on all the problems and with Satya N CEO he made this amazing. Absolutely no bugs. AI is just starting. It will further integrate in all of tools. Edge have killed Chrome. No way Google can compete with Microsoft on this. c. During 5k Monitor connected and single screen the laptop gets somewhat warm. May be its first gen Snapdragon. I have no compliants. Thats where Mac shines. the raw power of processing is still awesome in Mac M series chip. But their software still lacks. d. I still kept this Windows PC to experience the pc as is and love the Windows implementation. e. True tone display on Mac is implemented as Auto adjustment in display - Most of time i get like a book like screen first i felt different then realized that is the best to continue on laptop without fatigue in eye. Kudos to Microsoft. This laptop is going to be a hit in market. I choose this over various windows pc because Microsofts surface is the only laptop in windows that worked on close attention to detail that is very common in Apple ecosystem. will i replace Mac to move to Windows - Absolutely no - Because Apple is more than one product - it is an ecosystem of products. so i still gonna keep both to enjoy both platforms. Amazon as always is the place i buy - With prime and to the doorstep what more you can ask for !