Surface Laptop 7

I've been using the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 which comes with the Snapdragon chip (X Elite), for almost a year now. For your use case, it will be perfect. The performance is also really good, flies through everything I use it for. App compatibility is also drastically improving every day. Photosho

Where did you get the info? The SoCs should at least be on par, with SD Elite performing much better in multi-core tasks while M4 handles single-core better. https://www.rtings.com/laptop/reviews/microsoft/surface-laptop-7th-edition-15-2024 vs. https://www.rtings.com/laptop/reviews/apple/macbook-pro

Don't buy anyone but Microsoft's. I just got a brand new Asus A16 Zenbook and while the hardware is great, the "tweaks" they make to their version of Windows make it into a steaming pile of crap. Search and Indexing are broken and don't work. The Copilot key doesn't work. This was out-of-the-box beh

Yes you don’t need something too powerful for business school, literally half the people in my undergrad or current MBA program uses a MacBook. As long as your computer is reasonably powerful you will be alright, 16gb or more ram, modernish i5/ryzrn 5 or higher cpu, you don’t need a dedicated GPU, i

Yes, you'll hear the fans more often in a 13-inch X Elite. Besides that, not really since Windows on ARM still hasn't matured. If you want the X Elite, go for a 15-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop 7.