Microsoft – Surface Laptop – 15″ 3K Touchscreen – Snapdragon X2 Plus (10 Core) 2026 – 16GB – 512GB Storage – Platinum

Microsoft Surface laptop - Love my new laptop. It is fast and battery life is great. I love how thin it is and lightweight.

Great Purchase! - This laptop is very sleek and worth the money! Although it works very well, it does easily dent and the camera quality could be better. Those are the little things though, and overall it is a great buy!

The Ultimate Laptop Worth Every Penny! - As both a student and elementary school teacher, this laptop is perfect for my needs! The 15-inch 3K touchscreen is great for lesson planning, grading, and assignments. The Snapdragon X2 Elite processor and 16GB of RAM make multitasking easy, while the 512GB storage provides plenty of space for my files. It's sleek, fast, and practical for everyday use. I highly recommend it to teachers and students looking for a reliable laptop that can keep up with their busy schedules!

love this laptop - This is my first time buying a Surface Pro and I absolutely love it.

microsoft surface - a great product everything about the laptop is good.

Awesome display - The computer is great. The display is awesome. It’s so fast and not sluggish no matter how much I’m multitasking!

Microsoft - Surface Laptop - 15'' 3K Touchscreen - The 15-inch Surface Laptop with the Snapdragon X2 Elite is a phenomenal machine. The 3K PixelSense display is vibrant, smooth, and perfect for multitasking. Performance is exceptionally snappy, easily handling intensive workflows without lagging or heating up. Battery life is hands-down the best feature—it easily lasts all day on a single charge. Combine that with a top-tier keyboard and a sleek, modern design, and it’s an absolute winner!

Love this laptop - Best quality, battery life is at a comfortable time

Smooth computer integration - I am happy with my new Surface Laptop. I bought it to run my coaching business and it has smoothly integrated with my monitor, my wireless keyboard and mouse. I unplug the computer and bring it to cowork a few days a week and it easily complies with other monitors I plug in and hooks back up to my mouse and keyboard seamlessly, as well as any other internet log ins as I am in new places working. The picture is great and the keyboard feels so smooth, although I usually use my external keyboard for ergonomics.

Laptop still unopened so review if of Best Buy - I love the Microsoft surface I’ve had for many years. Due to it no longer being supported I had to purchase a new surface. Unfortunately Best Buy no longer supports same day data transfer from your old laptop to the new. They wanted me to leave my old laptop with user name and password information and they would transfer the data in 3 days. This is acceptable and a significant security risk. I’m very disappointed with Best Buy’s policy and hope that I will be able to do the transfer of data myself as I am not technically savvy.

Solid laptop - Everything work smoothly. I’m a month in and I yet to have any issues

It's a smooth response and great feel - I've had the new Surface 15" for a couple weeks now and I'm really impressed. It's incredibly smooth to use and everything feels fast and responsive, the processor handles multitasking without any lag. Build quality is excellent too; it feels great in your hands and looks even better. I've gotten so many compliments on the design alone. Overall, a fantastic laptop that nails both performance and style!

Surface Laptop - The battery life is good, lasted 6 hours with only 15% reduction. I would have liked if the screen was either detachable or could tilt to write on. Overall, a great product

Laptop surface - I love the laptop and it does a great job as far as screen camera keyboard, and it does not heat up Also the battery life is great

Beast of a laptop with long battery life - The first thing that struck me with the laptop was the build quality. It felt hefty in a way that old electronics used to feel, and this is a compliment, not a slight. I wasn't sure if going with the bigger screen would end up being a mistake because of the portability loss, but I'm really glad I got the 15". The 3:2 style is different for me but the screen is absolutely stunning. When it's next to my tablet watching the same video, the colors are brighter and the lines are clearer. The battery life has never been less than a few days, it's an absolute beast. The keyboard does feel like it's placed a little higher on the laptop than I'm used to but I'm getting used to this format as I type on it more. The update process was pretty lengthy to fully complete, probably a little over an hour to download all updates, Microsoft stepped in and used my other PC's settings to make the process smoother although this is optional. The touchscreen is extremely snappy, as good or better than most tablets that I use. The touchpad is excellent as well as the backlit keyboard. (with dedicated backlight settings button. Great Feature.) It doesn't have the haptic clunk I've become used to with older laptop trackpads and it's a huge upgrade. A nice feature that I've never seen, or should I say, felt, before; the touchpad gives a little vibration when you hover over the X button to close out a screen. The dedicated Copilot button has become more useful than I expected it to, even sometimes just to take a random quiz on a grab bag of topics, even though it wants to tailor them to my interests based on my searches or computer usage. This feels like a feature that will become more helpful the more you use it. It's deeply ingrained in the system and works as designed. The recall function seems useful but I find that it's a little too invasive for my needs. I don't do anything important enough to require constant screen monitoring. The system moves swiftly through basic apps and internet browsing with little to no load time. I booted up Steam and put on a pretty weak intensity game in Slay the Spire 2. While it loaded it well, and played fine, I don't think I'll be swapping my gaming PC out for this use anytime soon as it was a little clunky at times. If I was flying and I needed to play something for a while, I think it could handle it, but just barely. The battery handled it better than expected. As I'm tinkering with the settings, Windows does offer power button settings for the keyboard power button. I find a physical button on the external of the body of the laptop is preferential but I don't mind this. It comes in and out of Sleep as fast as any system I've seen. Worth noting that it has two USB-C ports (not for powering, that's a specific cable and my one big gripe.) as well as a USB-A port which is actually perfect for me as all my wireless mice are USB-A still. There's a MicroSD card slot as well next to the Surface Connect (power) port, a feature only on the 15" version. I had to do an interview with Google Meet and it performed better than any other device I could do the chat on. The webcam is almost perfectly aligned with the top of the laptop and it's very clear to use for video calling. All in all, I wouldn't recommend this if you're trying to play a lot of games on it, but it will do in a pinch. What this laptop is suited for is quick on the go work with heavy focus on AI assistance.

Surface pro - I have always been an Apple user. I finally decided to move forward and move on to a surface pro. This was a great decision that I have made. I can do my school work without any complications. Surface pro is a much better device.

MS Surface Laptop - Really like this! Replaces my 10 year old HP and the only glitch has been with my older web security, which caused one update to stall. The Best Buy rep who sold me the laptop sorted the problem out immediately when I went back to the store, so a shout out to Joe at Watertown!

Premium notebook from Microsoft, power efficient - The Microsoft Surface Laptop 15"12c/16GB/512GB is a prime example of a premium product. The 15-inch black monolith of a finely crafted aluminum, with no obvious cooling vents (a thin ridge near the hinge provides ventilation) is striking in appearance and only weighs 3.67 pounds. Connectivity includes two USB-C/USB4 which support charging/power, data transfer and Display Port able to drive three 4k external monitors at 60hz, a USB-A 3.2 port, a 3.5 headphone jack and a MicroSDXC card reader. The Display is a bright LCD Touchscreen running at 3270 x 2180 (262 PPI) which is closer to 4k than it is to 2.7k and can drive the panel at 120hz. The DPI and 600 nits brightness contributes to a rich, sharp display, almost perfect for a notebook. However, as a touch screen, the glass can be a bit reflective in certain environments. The integrated HD Webcam does well with contrast and color, as well as low light environments. The keyboard has an auto backlight; the mousepad is responsive and provides haptic feedback. This surface notebook uses a Snapdragon X2 12 core CPU, with an integrated NPU for on device AI, rounding out the SOC (system on a chip) design is a GPU. This combination provides a good mix of performance, sips battery power and runs fairly cool with barely any fan ramp up at load. This version had 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. Benchmarks tests place this near the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU for performance, however with much more efficient power consumption. This 15-inch model’s design and size remind me of a MacBook Air. Overall, the design of the hardware is premium, and the laptop screen can be opened with a single finger, with no need to hold down the bottom half of the laptop. The system is preloaded win Windows 11 Home and took about 30 minutes to setup syncing with one of my Microsoft 365 accounts. M365 apps ran well, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint starting up quickly and performing as I would expect (the system also comes with a trial of Microsoft 365 and Xbox Live). Some advanced Excel spreadsheets or intensive element in slide heavy PowerPoint presentations provided a mostly positive user experience. Video editing with the basic Microsoft Clipchamp app could work in a pinch for producing content, but the machine quickly runs out of horsepower when editing and rendering video, even if it is working and outputting from/to local, on device media. Most of the constraint relates to the GPU (which does the heavy lifting in video editing) and the maxing out of available physical memory (in this case 16GB). If there was one performance improvement I would make to the system is an upgrade to 32GB of RAM to better mesh with the Snapdragon’s capabilities. Overall, this is a good multipurpose laptop that will easily last a working day on a single battery charge. The battery also fast charge with the supplied 65 watt which fits into a surface connect proprietary port. Charging via a USB-C port is also an option. >>> Pros >> well designed at the level you would see in a premium notebook or MacBook >> superior integration with Microsoft Windows 11 Home >> excellent webcam with Windows Hello >> nice looking touchscreen >> only 3.65 pounds <<< Cons << could come with more RAM standard << better GPU could improve the experience << pricey

Big improvement over last year - The Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 is my third Surface laptop, the first being the Studio followed by last year’s 7th generation 15 inch. It is important to know, design wise, this year’s surface is identical to last year’s, down to the weight of 3 pounds, 10.5 ounces. I continue to be impressed with the build quality. The aluminum body feels sturdy and well built and the keyboard deck is solid. The lid opens with one finger but there isn't any kind of knockout, just a slight overgap to grab on to. There are two USB-C ports on the left side, along with an USB-A and 3.5mm headphone/microphone jack. On the right side you have the Surface Connect which also supports I/O via a Microsoft dock along with a Micro SD card reader. I wish there was a USB-C on each side rather than both on one. The updated 3270x2180, (up from last year’s 2496x1664) 120Hz 15 inch touch screen display is bright and crisp. The increased pixel density helps text look great at small font sizes. Colors pop and are vivid and blacks are deep. The display has a highly reflective shine on it. In my office with a sunny window behind me, the display was very difficult to view. It is a touch screen and has 10 point touch which is responsive. It also includes pen support via Microsoft ink. I really like the 3:2 aspect ratio, the extra length of the screen is really nice when working on office documents and spreadsheets. As far as sound, there are no speaker grills, the sound just emanates from the keyboard (Omnisonic speakers?) and there is Dolby Atmos. The volume is loud enough and sounds clear. Like most laptops, bass is lacking and it can sound a bit tinny. The 1080p front facing camera worked as expected and included IR for Windows Hello. Video via Teams was crisp and clear. Colors seemed a bit warmer to me on the auto settings but you can adjust the white balance to make it photos and videos match your needs. The keyboard feels just like the Studio, the chiclet keys have a nice travel but feel a bit more spongy than last year. The keys backlit with three levels of brightness. The haptic touch pad is the best I’ve seen on a windows laptop and on par with the touchpad on my Macbook Pro. This version of laptop also has haptic feedback for more than just the click - for example, when your pointer hovers over the close window X the trackpad vibrates. This is not a feature on version 7. Microsoft rates the battery life on the 15 inch Surface at 22 hours for video and 15 hours for web browsing. These are great numbers if you’re buying a video player or tire from using your phone to surf the web. In real-world use I did manage to get about a day and a half (work days) out of the battery. The Surface charger for the 15 inch model comes in at 65 watts and supports quick charging. From power save mode to 80% took just about an hour and to full charge took about 100 minutes. I can say that while charging and using the Surface, it did get warm but not enough to burn. Finally, you have Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 for future proofing. Unfortunately, I don't have compatible equipment for either yet. Performance By the numbers - Geekbench CPU single-core is 2,828, a 31.3% increase over V7’s 2,154. Multi-core is 13,998, a 57.8% increase over last year’s 8,871. GPU Scores V8 gets 21,938, a 15% increase over last year’s 18,996. For reference, my M1 Pro Macbook Pro (2021) gets 2,321 single, 10,761 multiple core and 39,701 GPU. Out of the gate, know that application support still might be an issue for you based on your needs. One thing I did notice was not hearing a fan. I tried as best I could to tax the system to get the fan running but with everyday office use, this machine is pretty much silent. With general office work and Microsoft Office 365 I had no issues. Several other programs I use worked fine as well. Unfortunately, Adobe users still know that not all Adobe products play well yet. Maybe I am just too old but I’m not impressed with the AI features. They are nice to have and I am sure they will just get better with age. Overall, I really like the build of the 15 inch Surface Laptop. The new Snapdragon chips are a great step forward but remain hampered by application support at the moment. I’m sure as these processors advance, support will increase faster. All the issues I’ve experienced so far are software related: My Adobe Creative Cloud isn't fully compatible with the ARM architecture yet. Hardware that requires a specific driver might not work or work completely. It seems pretty clear to me that the Surface lineup is aiming at Apple. With synthetic benchmarks close to or better than some MacBooks, it seems, to me at least, that the hardware aspect is there. I think that the new Snapdragon platform is a great move forward with the biggest setback still being application support, which if past is prologue, will continue to come around. I recommend this Surface Laptop 8 to anyone looking for a great laptop ready for the future.

Solid where it counts - The Surface 8 15” is a capable daily driver for general productivity tasks. Even though I have quite a few nitpicks with this laptop, it is strong enough where it counts that I can recommend it without reservation. The battery life is phenomenal; the best of any laptop I’ve used. It was more than able to handle a full day of moderate to heavy usage. I was surprised by how incredibly negligible the battery drain was while the laptop was in sleep mode, barely sipping battery charge. I can close the lid, come back the next day, and resume where I left off without worrying that I’ve drained the battery. The battery charged from 15% to full in under two hours. I was surprised by the processing power of the Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU and integrated Qualcomm Adreno X2-85 GPU, though this is my first laptop with an ARM-based CPU. Of course, this laptop is not designed for gaming and can’t reasonably be compared to gaming laptops. However, it performed surprisingly well, having good performance on a couple of older games I tried. When gaming, there is considerable heat build-up, but I didn’t play long enough sessions to see if this becomes problematic. Loading and execution of X64 (non-native) apps was snappy, and I didn’t run into any compatibility issues. The display is pretty amazing. A whopping 3K 4:3 resolution at 120 Hz packed into a 15” size, and up to 600 nits of brightness, is great to work with. I prefer a 4:3 aspect ratio in laptop displays I won’t be using for gaming, as that seems ideal for browsing the web, viewing and editing documents, and general productivity work. The rounded corners, while not nearly as extreme as what’s found in most phone displays, still seem completely uncalled for. Those missing pixels can be fairly noticeable in some cases, since the PC platform in general is not designed around this, unlike phones, which have strongly adopted this design philosophy. The default color profile seems to be a little oversaturated compared to what I’m used to. The camera is quite decent. It manages to pick up a good amount of detail even when the image is rather grainy. It transitions ISOs well across various lighting conditions and maintains a pretty even color quality even in bad/dim indoor lighting. The speakers are decent but unremarkable for the form factor. The sound is projected directly up through the keyboard, which can be pretty annoying to those with tactile sensitivity. Windows support for the haptic trackpad is new, and its scope seems extremely limited. It felt like a useless gimmick that didn’t add any value. The keyboard has a decent feel and tactile feedback, but lacks convenience/macro keys (for which there is room), and misses some meaningful labeling, particularly the Pg. Up/Down, Home, and End alternative functions of the arrow keys when used with the Fn key. The overall build quality is clean and solid, but I have a few nitpicks. - Many competing products have useful convenience features like a 360-degree hinge or detachable keyboard for tablet-like use, or an included dockable stylus. This laptop seems more narrowly focused in design and features. - This model has Windows Hello face recognition–a feature I’d never use–rather than a fingerprint reader, which is a feature I use often in laptops. It’s a bummer that this is an either/or feature in the Surface product line. - Though the lid has a very slight lip, it’s harder to open than average among the many laptops I’ve owned. I found myself resorting to using my fingernail to open it, which I’d rather not have to do. - Surface laptops are roped into channelling extra, non-optional diagnostic data back to Microsoft. - It’s rather easy to accidentally unplug the power cord (which happened several times to me during my week of testing), which relies primarily on magnetism to keep it secured.