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Are you looking for for a new Windows laptop to get work done from your local coffee shop? You can take the 15-in Microsoft Surface Laptop from Best Buy for $1,110a $400 break from the usual $1,500 price tag. It’s our favorite Windows laptop for non-gamers, and it has smooth performance and great battery life.
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Surface Laptop (7th Edition, 2024)
There are major screen improvements for this generation, with thinner bezels that give you more real estate without expanding the footprint. Even if you don’t play much, the 120-Hz refresh rate helps everyday tasks feel smooth, and it’s bright enough to get work done, even if you’re sitting outside. It’s also a touchscreen, although Windows isn’t the most touch-friendly operating system.
It’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, an ARM processor that’s smooth for everyday computing, and has impressive battery life. After using the laptop for most of the work day at 50 percent light, our reviewer Brenda Stolyar still have more than 20 percent battery left. The discounted model has 16 GB of memory and 512 GB of storage, a typical configuration for laptops at this price point. It also has the ports you’d expect for a mid-tier laptop, including two USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 ports, plus a single USB-A port in the case, a 3.5-mm headphone jack, and the magnetic Surface Connect charging port.
While the Surface Laptop is Copilot-enabled, we didn’t find the suite of AI tools all that compelling or useful. There’s a dedicated key for accessing the Copilot chat bot, as well as live captioning for videos, and CoCreator lets you draw in Paint and then prompt it to generate an AI image. The most possibly useful feature is Recall, which takes regular screenshots to act as a reviewable history of your activity, but the The privacy implications there are not very attractive.
If you’re interested in jumping on this deal, you can find the 15-inch Surface Laptop for $1,100 at Best Buy everywhere. BLACK or platinum. We also continue a list of our favorite laptops updated with the latest and greatest laptops for Windows and MacOS, and even game selections if that’s faster.
