Snapdragon X2 Plus is much faster - Microsoft Surface Laptop 13.8 2026 Review

[Redaktion]

Microsoft now offers its Surface Laptop 13.8 with new Snapdragon X2 ARM chips from Qualcomm with better performance and longer battery runtimes. You still get the bright IPS screen as well as comfortable input devices, which makes it a really good overall package.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Snapdragon-X2-Plus-is-much-faster-Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-13-8-2026-Review.1334131.0.html

[Terror Byte]

So the cpu is much weaker than AMD"s old and average Ryzen 350 and the iGPU is weaker than the AMD mediocre 860M. Only battery life is good. Yeah hard pass.

[Pi-Qui]

The surface pro is way overpriced, for almost 1700 euro's I rather buy a secondhand MacBook Pro or Windows workstation laptop costing half and just a bit less batterytime but performance ise almost equal. Is notebookcheck afraid of writing a damning review?

[Swizzy]

This site is always selective when it comes down to criticizing price/performance.