The NEW Surface Pro + Laptop - First Impressions

today is a big day in the laptop world

because a bunch of devices were launched

with the new Snapdragon X chip this is

supposedly a very powerful chip with

awesome Energy Efficiency so like

incredible battery life and these are

supposed to be cheaper chips so it' be

able to put this type of chip into a

laptop makes that whole product come

down in price okay I was able to spend a

little bit of time with a few of them

and these are some First Impressions I'm

going to start off with some surface

devices so with the Surface Pro 11 and

the surface laptop 7 with the laptops

having the biggest changes the screens

on both devices are now OLED panels so

the 13.5 in IPS panel for the previous

generation has now been updated to a

13.8 in OLED panel and the 15-in panel

as well but they both have much better

contrast ratios and viewing angles just

better image quality they would get with

OLED Tech and you get thinner bezels but

you also get for the first time that I

can think of on a Surface laptop rounded

corners on the display now Apple's been

doing this on their MacBooks for like

over a decade at this point but they

only do the top corners like the top

left top right this on the surface

laptop here we're seeing it on all four

corners including the bottom ones and

it's just I don't know I like the look I

don't think it's for everyone but I

think it's just like a nice design

language that I think goes really well

with the overall design of the surface

devices uh the keyboard hasn't really

changed other than the inclusion of

their co-pilot key which is like their

AI button you press that and it'll do

wonderful AI things that whole

conversation of co-pilot and the new

co-pilot plus that's a whole separate

convers ation that'll come in the future

the trackpads on the surface laptops

have also been updated they're now a

haptic touchpad in the sense that

they're no longer like a physical can

lever mechanism that goes up and down it

is now a motor on the inside that

simulates the sensation of tapping on

that touch pad and both the 13.8 and

15-in devices have this change another

thing the new Surface laptop seemed a

little chunkier than before so like the

base of the device has a beefier middle

segment which I actually like to see

because usually that means better

thermals and I imagine they went with

this kind of chunkier design because

they wanted to be to support the highest

tier of Snapdragon X chips like the

Snapdragon X Elite that has a slightly

higher wattage and they want to be able

to run that chip on these new Surface

devices but the interesting thing to me

is that for years now the surface

laptops when it came to the Intel

chipped versions those were just barely

able to keep up with the heat output of

those Intel chips but they retooled

everything for the arm chips which to me

is like okay Microsoft at least on the

hardware level is very committed or

seemingly very committed to actually

delivering a good product here because

they actually spent all the money and

resources to retool this entire products

lineup that's good to hear now in terms

of ports you get an extra USBC on the

left side and on the right side is just

the surface connect okay the performance

of this chip so these chips the

Snapdragon X Elite and the Snapdragon X

Plus they're both supposedly awesome but

we've only seen it with synthetic

benchmarks and stuff that the companies

have demo mode with intent the real

question and really think the only kind

of potential problem that we might see

with this product is the support for

nonnative apps so if you're new to this

whole conversation of like arm chips

with Windows devices all the stuff seems

good so far right but the one weakness

is a lot of Windows apps do not have

native support for this type of Chip

These Arm chips and we've been promised

from the developers from Microsoft from

Qualcomm that this time around they

they've got it they've got it all

covered the emulation will be good

everything will be solid but I need to

see the performance with my own eyes on

retail units none of this like Early

Access stuff uh the other product from

Microsoft is their Surface Pro 11 so

this now has an OLED screen which looks

quite a bit better than what they had

previously because it's OLED the size

seem the same and same with the bezels

they didn't change it it's a good thing

I think with a tablet you need to have a

good amount of bezel so you're not like

accidentally misclicking when you're

holding it as a tablet most of this

device seemed completely unchanged from

the exterior it still has the same clean

design on the back and you still have

easy access to the SSD by pushing the

metal plate that has magnets holding it

now at the time of shooting this I don't

have specific pricing on any of those

Microsoft service devices I was told

that they'd be cheaper than I would

expect but because of the live event

I'll be updating any kind of pricing and

extra details down the description but I

do think that they'll be cheaper than

before but I do have two other devices

that I think are arguably more

interesting and I do have details and

pricing the first one is this one this

is lenovo's yoga slim 7x and this thing

starts at $1,200 and for the money you

get a crazy amount of Awesomeness in a

laptop so this is a full metal design

like classic yoga build right but the

keyboard is just it's awesome this is a

1.5 mm travel it's strangely responsive

but because this is so thin like look at

this thing man this is 1.29 millimet

thin sorry 1.29 cmet thin so 12.9

millimet it's super thin super light at

1.29 kilos and it's

like it it's crazy how compact this

thing is with a 14-in screen so this is

a 14.5 in OLED panel that gets super

bright I think it Peaks at 1,00 nits

this is all like pre-release or pre-

retail soft or Hardware so I can't

really I don't want to measure it and

give you numbers but the the goal of it

is be able to hit 1,000 nits at Peak but

this thing is so good for the money

because typically if you're going to get

a device like this with an Intel or AMD

chip this thing would have been like

1,500 bucks easy but to get this kind of

performance and a 70w hour battery so

the 70w hour battery combined with the

Snapdragon X chip my guess they wouldn't

give me numbers yet but my guess is it's

going to be like a 20h hour claimed

battery this is supposed to be a

multi-day battery product uh I legit

think they're going to be like this

thing's 21 hours like out of the box

that would be crazy but again all the

testing has to come later but for the

money I think this is really solid the

other product I want to dry your

attention to is the Viva book S15 from

Asus this is an even cheaper device

starts at $1,100 but this has a bigger

screen at 15 in it's also a really nice

looking panel 120 HZ 3K but this isn't

as premium of a product overall as the

Lenovo Yoga slim 7x I do think that

because of the bigger screen you'll also

have a slightly shorter battery life

they both have 70w hour batteries but

the interesting thing about this Asus

product the Viva book S15 is it does

have the highest wattage of the

Snapdragon X laptops I've seen so far so

45 Watts at the top end you also get a

lot of IO including two usba and an HDMI

port and a Micro SD reader to boot so my

initial impression on this whole like

launch of Snapdragon X devices it's just

so much better than I than I thought it

would be like when they first announced

it we saw all the launch partners and it

seemed like okay there's a lot of

companies on board but I'm impressed by

the caliber or devices that are coming

out the fact that Microsoft like

retooled their surface laptop Hardware

finally but for arm devices like that's

telling uh and then you just saw like

two other really good devices like I

think the the options are really good

for consumers at this point don't go out

and buy it until you see the retail like

reviews I think my hope is that the

emulation is going to be good enough it

it better be or else all of this is just

going to go to waste but wait for the

reviews uh I'll be doing pretty

extensive reviews on the performance and

the stuff so be tuned for that if you're

interested uh but there you have it the

Snapdragon X laptops are finally here