Microsoft Surface Laptop

“will randomly wake up and sit there with its keyboard backlight full on and act dead”

“The build quality of Surface seems quite good, seems like unibody aluminum.”

“I had a surface laptop, it was fine, not as good as a MacBook imo.”

“Somehow the Surface folks can't get enough of their critical drivers in-box with Windows to be able to re-install from stock media.”

“The build it rock solid, its trivial to run wsl for a Linux environment and I still get a windows environment for work with excel, etc.”

“I ended up using my Mac’s USB-C Ethernet dongle because the dock would just lose the Ethernet driver.”

“Recent Surface ARM laptops do not seem to be locked in any way.”

“Solid hardware and a good alternative to the Lenovo Thinkpads we're also using”

“pretty much everything I use runs natively on it”

“for the time it was excellent, the keyboard and trackpad were both superior to my macbook pro of the time”

“The laptops aren't very fast but they can take a lot of physical abuse and the batteries last all day.”

“they are pretty fast, battery life is pretty good and you can do whatever you want”

“The Surfaces I've owned (3 so far, over the last 8 years) have been much more reliable than the other Windows laptops I've used”

“I have had the 15" Surface Laptop 6 as my daily driver and love it. Very reliable.”

“Overall they've been significantly less troublesome than the laptops from other major brands I've had over the same period.”

“It's about the closest you'll get to a MacBook in Windows land.”

“I'm still using it. But I'd have ditched the laptop if it weren't for the linux kernel.”

“even on the Snapdragon surface laptop, I can't trust Windows to actually sleep”

“the Microsoft Surface Laptops are nice machines but damn if the driver thing doesn't continually piss me off.”

“closest you can get to a "Mac with Windows" in quality/thought (that I've found) and the ARM CPU not being able to use x86 printer drivers is infuriating”

“runs Windows faster than the Macbook Neo, but unlike the Neo can survive a fall onto a concrete floor”

“The company stopped buying them after a few years because the first year failure rate was almost 15%.”

“is an excellent machine, built well, and even gets a good iFixit rating”

“But the Surface is pretty good, which is weird because it seems like Microsoft isn't really focusing on it”

“It's a really nice computer overall, worthy.”

“the surface laptop has an excellent screen”

“it uses 150% scaling (as opposed to the ideal 200%) which means you have subtle display artifacts”

“The surface laptop 7 is pretty nice and comes in both large(ish) 15 inch and small 13.8 inch form factors.”

“The build quality is great, and I even think that the Surface's haptic trackpad is superior.”

“I have a Surface Laptop 5 that won’t enable the AI cruft so I got somewhat lucky there.”

“the Microsoft Surface book/laptop line is really good in my opinion”

“Surface laptops have good keyboard and trackpad but the display uses 150% scaling”

“Scaling is set to 150% which causes display artifacts which some people don't notice, but others are distracted by.”

“Absolutely no regrets, it's so much better.”

“Apparently Surface laptops come with stellar repair guides now, and they improved repairability greatly.”

“The closest laptop to MacBook quality is surprisingly the Microsoft Surface Laptop.”

“Ironically the best device I’ve had from the other side was a Surface Laptop.”

“the higher end Microsoft Surface Laptop is on par with Apple MBP build quality wise from my experiences”

“the surface laptop hardware is really nice”

“Checks the boxes for Screen, build quality, and touchpad.”