Snappy performance, long battery life, great keyboard and new haptic touchpad make the best of Windows 11.
Microsoft’s Surface laptop for consumers is back, faster and with longer battery life and a price increase because of the high cost of memory and chips.
The Surface Laptop 8 is a straight replacement for the seventh edition from 2024 Qualcomm-powered PCs designed to better rival Apple’s MacBook Air and other thin and light machines.
The new machine comes with a choice of Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Plus or Elite chips but starts at £1,449 – £400 or equivalent more than the launch price of the previous edition because of RAMageddon.
The speakers are good for a laptop.
The Surface Laptop 8 comes with a choice of Qualcomm ARM chips, starting with the Snapdragon X2 Plus with a more powerful X2 Elite available.
The Surface Laptop 8 managed just shy of 14 hours of work using at least 15 tabs in Chrome, Evernote, a text editor, chat apps and several hours of photo editing in Affinity.
The Surface Laptop 8 has two USB-C ports, a USB-A port, a headphones port and Microsoft’s proprietary Surface Connect port.
The Surface Laptop 8 runs Windows 11 for ARM, which lacks any of the unnecessary trials and other bits of software typically found from third-party manufacturers.
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 13.8in costs from £1,449 with a Snapdragon X2 Plus chip, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
The Surface Laptop 8 is another premium PC from Microsoft.