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Microsoft Surface Laptop (7th Gen): Snapdragon X Plus, 13.8" 2304x1536 120Hz Touch

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Micro Center has Microsoft Surface Laptop (7th Edition) for $799.99. Free store pickup is available where stock permits.

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  • Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus Processor
  • 13.8" 2304x1536 120Hz PixelSense Flow Touchscreen Display
  • 16GB LPDDR5x RAM
  • Qualcomm Adreno Integrated Graphics
  • 512GB SSD
  • Wireless LAN WiFi 7 (802.11be), Bluetooth 5.4
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 1x USB 3.1 (Gen 1 Type-A)
    • 2x USB 4.0 (Gen 3 Type-C)

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Micro Center has Microsoft Surface Laptop (7th Edition) for $799.99. Free store pickup is available where stock permits.

Note, availability for store pickup may vary by location.

Thanks to community member smachine for finding this deal.

Available in:
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  • Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus Processor
  • 13.8" 2304x1536 120Hz PixelSense Flow Touchscreen Display
  • 16GB LPDDR5x RAM
  • Qualcomm Adreno Integrated Graphics
  • 512GB SSD
  • Wireless LAN WiFi 7 (802.11be), Bluetooth 5.4
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Ports:
    • 1x USB 3.1 (Gen 1 Type-A)
    • 2x USB 4.0 (Gen 3 Type-C)

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Every thread about Snapdragon CPUs gets bashed about compatibility issues. Upgraded a surface book to the SP7 2 months go and it's been amazing. It's a ultra portable laptop, great for office docs, media, browsing. I haven't had any compatibility issues, PIA VPN works fine along with Citrix, and battery is incredible. I'm not going back to x86 if I can avoid it.
Maybe but this year snapdragon also sold their chips to manufacturers for 50% off. The falling prices were expected. Also sometimes manufacturers will do this to increase sales and market share subsequently leading to increasing software support. I'm personally not fully sold on the ARM thing but Apple has been doing it for 4 generations now with even professionals using it for high demand tasks. Intel with competing battery life makes this a hard choice but with such a price difference it might be worth biting the bullet.
These surface laptops seem well built from everything I have seen

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Nov 21, 2024
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JoeGer
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Quote from 11A :
Go for ARM if you like. More power to you. Most people can't. I can think of a dozen+ productivity applications I use regularly that are simply not available on Windows on ARM. I wish they were. (I also want to buy a brand new laptop release at 45% off that has 3x the battery life.) They won't be. Most app developers won't convert their app for a platform that has a 1% market share. That's a fact! But if you just want to watch YouTube and brows Slickdeals, it's perfect for that. As often with technology, you get what you pay for / they sell tech for as much as they can sell it for.
I'm already on arm. Lenovo Slim 7x with 32GB of memory. Best laptop I've owned in the past 30 years. I run 100s of applications it. 90% native, the rest emulated with no issues. I can use it for Visual Studio, Linux virtualization with WSL, Office, Remoting with TeamViewer, Rustdesk, and Anydesk. Whatsapp, Slack, Zoom, Several VPNs, built-in one for work, Wireguard / OpenVPN, Express for other accounts. Photo editing, streaming, Python, git, node, the list is numerous and increasing every day.
This is more than a 1% native:
https://armrepo.ver.lt/

You're speaking from gross ignorance.

As a software developer myself I've ported a few open source projects to ARM myself. In some cases the effort took less than an hour.
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Quote from JoeGer :
I'm already on arm. Lenovo Slim 7x with 32GB of memory. Best laptop I've owned in the past 30 years. I run 100s of applications it. 90% native, the rest emulated with no issues. I can use it for Visual Studio, Linux virtualization with WSL, Office, Remoting with TeamViewer, Rustdesk, and Anydesk. Whatsapp, Slack, Zoom, Several VPNs, built-in one for work, Wireguard / OpenVPN, Express for other accounts. Photo editing, streaming, Python, git, node, the list is numerous and increasing every day.
This is more than a 1% native:
https://armrepo.ver.lt/

You're speaking from gross ignorance.

As a software developer myself I've ported a few open source projects to ARM myself. In some cases the effort took less than an hour.
That's most interesting. And most inconsistent with the experience of numerous of users on Reddit... Which you call "gross ignorance".... I assume you're not in a line of work where interpersonal skills are required. Best of luck! I hope ARM wins. I want a Surface Pro that lasts more than 3.5 hours and can run all the apps I need natively, 100% of the time, not just 99% of the time. 99% reliability is unacceptable.
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Quote from 11A :
That's most interesting. And most inconsistent with the experience of numerous of users on Reddit... Which you call "gross ignorance".... I assume you're not in a line of work where interpersonal skills are required. Best of luck! I hope ARM wins. I want a Surface Pro that lasts more than 3.5 hours and can run all the apps I need natively, 100% of the time, not just 99% of the time. 99% reliability is unacceptable.
Reddit also predicted a victory for Kamala Harris. Be careful trusting echo chambers. I've seen straight up lies upvoted to the top in /r/hardware such as WSL is not supported on Snapdragon.
The truth is Snapdragon purchasers by in large have been very happy, just look at any purchase page with reviews from people who actually bought them.

I want a laptop that can wake from sleep, have great battery, and runs fast and is lightweight with low to no fan noise. Intel and AMD are out of the running already since their success rate from wake up from sleep mode is abysmal.

If an emulated app runs in 0.03 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds that's a deal breaker for you, understood, kind of odd, but ok.
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Quote from JoeGer :
Reddit also predicted a victory for Kamala Harris. Be careful trusting echo chambers. I've seen straight up lies upvoted to the top in /r/hardware such as WSL is not supported on Snapdragon.
The truth is Snapdragon purchasers by in large have been very happy, just look at any purchase page with reviews from people who actually bought them.

I want a laptop that can wake from sleep, have great battery, and runs fast and is lightweight with low to no fan noise. Intel and AMD are out of the running already since their success rate from wake up from sleep mode is abysmal.

If an emulated app runs in 0.03 seconds instead of 0.01 seconds that's a deal breaker for you, understood, kind of odd, but ok.
In my "grossly ignorant" experience x86 apps don't run 100% on x86 Surface Pros. Every x86 Surface Pro is so buggy as it is, it should be embarrassing to MS. I can just imagine what thing are like when you an extremely complex emulation on top of that. Best of luck! I'll join you the moment ARM crosses the 50% market share line. You can argue all you want that app developers support a system with 1% market share just as well as they support the platform with 99% market share. Just because you say that many times, it won't make it true. If you've ever worked a corporate job you should know that resource allocation depends on the profitability of each product line. ARM will get the B team, if it even gets a team as long as it's a niche platform, as it currently is.

Like I said, I'm joining you at the 50+% market share mark. Until then, I'll wait for a Lunar Lake SP. That will get me there 80% of the way in terms of battery life. It will have amazing graphics and much better app compatibility. Or are you denying even that?
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Quote from 11A :
In my "grossly ignorant" experience x86 apps don't run 100% on x86 Surface Pros. Every x86 Surface Pro is so buggy as it is, it should be embarrassing to MS. I can just imagine what thing are like when you an extremely complex emulation on top of that. Best of luck! I'll join you the moment ARM crosses the 50% market share line. You can argue all you want that app developers support a system with 1% market share just as well as they support the platform with 99% market share. Just because you say that many times, it won't make it true. If you've ever worked a corporate job you should know that resource allocation depends on the profitability of each product line. ARM will get the B team, if it even gets a team as long as it's a niche platform, as it currently is. Like I said, I'm joining you at the 50+% market share mark. Until then, I'll wait for a Lunar Lake SP. That will get me there 80% of the way in terms of battery life. It will have amazing graphics and much better app compatibility. Or are you denying even that?
Lmao, another great observation. That's why Mac M4 is dead in the water, it hasn't crossed the 50% market share line. These arbitrary goal posts are hilarious, thanks for the chuckle. Again customer satisfaction on the Surface Elite is very high, no amount of gas lighting saying otherwise will change that fact.
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spacemanvt
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well this conversation got weird.
I am ordering this from the MS store and comparing it a Macbook M2 AIr that i just got from costco. Unfortunately I find MacOS very confusing but have 90 days to figure it out

My laptop usage is pretty basic browsing, very light gaming and emails etc. I think either an ARM processor or macbook would suffice but will likely stick with windows for ease of use. Either way my apps will be limited lol.
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Quote from JoeGer :
Lmao, another great observation. That's why Mac M4 is dead in the water, it hasn't crossed the 50% market share line. These arbitrary goal posts are hilarious, thanks for the chuckle. Again customer satisfaction on the Surface Elite is very high, no amount of gas lighting saying otherwise will change that fact.
Best of luck to you! You'll need it.

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Best of luck to you! You'll need it.
No luck needed when you make informed purchases. I've owned this ARM Elite laptop since June and have been extremely happy with it. I recommended it to a old house mate and he's been very happy with his too. Have a good day!
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Quote from JoeGer :
No luck needed when you make informed purchases. I've owned this ARM Elite laptop since June and have been extremely happy with it. I recommended it to a old house mate and he's been very happy with his too. Have a good day!
Oh yes you do. Not with the laptop...
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Quote from 11A :
Oh yes you do. Not with the laptop...
Thanks for being civil! I assume you're not in a line of work where interpersonal skills are required
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potsey2007
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Lots of s..ual tension in this thread
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Lots of s..ual tension in this thread
Little does anyone know that 11A is JoeGer's wife!
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Best of luck to you! You'll need it.
you're losing your mind bro. i've not seen a single bad review from any of these arm surface devices, and plenty say it's close to perfect. show me on the doll where windows touched you my man?
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Does anyone know if one can run 2D autocad on these?

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Does anyone have know how the screen compares to all the OLED ones that are out?

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