Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 - 2024

While some apps still need extra support to run on Windows on Arm, the Surface Laptop 7 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip have combined to create a nearly ideal platform for everyday productivity.

If you told me a year ago that the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 would be a top contender for best laptop of 2024, I would have laughed in your face. But here we are and it's truly an incredible portable machine, all thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon chip it's equipped with. Performance, battery life, light and thin, price, sound quality, and more are all top-notch.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop’s strong processor performance and top-tier battery life prove that Windows’ transition to Arm has staying power, but even the most casual gamers should think twice.

Microsoft has created a great MacBook Air competitor here. At $999.99, the base-model 13-inch Surface Laptop is $100 less than Apple’s M3 laptop, with Microsoft offering 16GB of memory instead of 8GB. If all you’ve ever wanted is a Windows-powered MacBook Air, that’s pretty much what you’re getting.

Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop is superbly made and a positive (albeit pricey) debut for Copilot+ PCs. Its Snapdragon X Elite CPU soars, too, but this is an early-adopter laptop, with Intel and AMD x86 chips with amped-up AI skills not far behind.