Surface Pro 11 & Surface Laptop 7 Teardowns – Repairable, AI Powered Devices!!!

50 thoughts on “Surface Pro 11 & Surface Laptop 7 Teardowns – Repairable, AI Powered Devices!!!”

• Wow, I’m actually much more impressed than I thought I’d be.

• I would love to see the next refresh have upgradable RAM with LPCAMM2.

• I've been waiting for this video. Repairability should be just as important as any other feature when purchasing an expensive electronic device.

• What do you do with these electronics?

• Well done M$, thx iFixit👍

• Why can't Apple make an easy repairable device like that

• still no schematic I see.

• Much better than previous Surface devices. I remember when Surface Laptops could only be accessed via destroying them, making them consumable (when the battery died, you couldn't replace it) and I also remember the Surface Pro batteries being glued in so tightly, an inverted pint glass could be stuck to the chassis (via the remaining adhesive) with no problems.

• 3:43 SK Hynix? That looks like a Micron logo. What am i missing?

• Neat that they put QR codes to their service manual pages, but Dell and Lenovo have had service manuals for their professional laptops for ages now (maybe not so much for consumer-oriented models….).

• From nightmare to repair to solid 8 score, WOW!

• Gracias por sus videos. Ustedes dictan cursos de reparacion de apple? en su pagina web no he visto nada de cursos.

• Batt-hry

• the rubber feets were glued with glue or have joints

• Bottom cover held with magnets… this is the sort of attention to detail you rarely see from PC vendors these days. It's clear that Microsoft is taking repairability very seriously. Thumbs up.

• starting the video with apple the "I" on the beginning of your channel name resample it well

• unreal! Here I am, trying to figure out how best to dissolve/soften industrial-strength glue to replace the 2 batteries in my Surface Book 2. Good on Microsoft for listening to its users and making such a dramatic improvement in reparability.

• Be aware the surface laptop 7 voids warranty if upgrading SSD. Unlike previous models

• Amazing

• As much as I despise M$ and their spyware, finally upping their repairability and handing out manuals is nice to see. Good job.

• Kudos to Microsoft.

• Color me impressed. Good work MS 🎉

• Surface line's biggest flaw and a deal breaker is easily the Spyware 11 operating system they come with.

• Way too much work
  I will never buy any Ms laptops or tablets, as I like to be able to upgrade my system as well as have easy access to everything.

• This being Qualcomm devices, no level of repairability will save them from the inevitable end of software support.

• I wish windows laptop could stay windows laptop while beeing better at being windows, but it seems we are on the same track as apple now, it start with no ram upgrade and slowly, we will loose what make windows fun, swapping out components

• Excellent teardown. I am pleasantly surprised at how repairable the Surface Laptop is, especially. Those ARM PC motherboards are also quite small compared to the one on my Zen 2 13" laptop from 2020.

  Normally the RAM is stacked onto the Qualcomm SoC die itself, but I assume it is separate here to make it easier to make different RAM SKUs for the products.

• Excellent progress, I am excited for the future.

• Thank you for showing us and for your work! 🙂 Great!

• Awesome to see for me, that the Hardware on the Surface Laptop including battery is switchable and reperable. Thats nice.

• I've been looking forward to this teardown since the surface announcement. Many thanks.

• hmm, i think we have to thank Framework for showing others how it can be done – surface laptop feels very similar
  the biggest test will be parts availability

• Replacing the 256GB SSD on my Laptop 7 with 2TB later today. I read the service manual yesterday, but your teardown really assuaged any worries I had about the process. Love how easy MS made accessing the internals. In previous generations, you basically destroyed the rubber feet to get them off.

• I would still prefer they engineer some sort of solution for the Surface Pro that does not require you to get busy trying to pry the screen up with guitar picks. It feels like it would be perilously easy to shatter the screen while doing that, if you're not careful.

• Great teardown! Clear explanations of everything. Thank you!

  Microsoft has really improved their repairability and I hope this puts pressure on other Windows vendors to follow. Apple does what it wants and likely won't take serious steps unless staying closed severely impacts its financials.

• 0:00 – iMac crying in Snapdragon…

• What Microsoft uses to run x86 applications on ARM is not an emulation layer but a translation layer which basically converts the system calls into language that ARM can understand instead of having an ARM CPU pretending to be x86

• How is this easier then a Dell Lattitude or HP Elitebook etc?

• Friendly reminder that detailed repair manuals and screws should (and used to be) the standard and the bare minimum.

• It looks like MS is making progress compared to previous models. Good on them!

• I would have loved to see some mention of the surface laptop screen replacement. Aside from the battery, that is the most common repair that most people will need. I suspect that it isn't very pleasant if it wasn't even mentioned by a Microsoft partner.

• A score of 8 seems a bit high for the Surface Pro when removing the screen is still such a pain. That paper-thin glass is still a problem for all but the most experienced techs and basically necessitates a screen replacement if the battery goes bad. In contrast, the Samsung and Apple tablets have much thicker glass and much thinner adhesive which means the screen can be removed without damage.

• I wonder if the next ones are gonna get CAMM2 to avoid soldered RAM…

• Cool. Too bad it's Microsoft and they're literally evil.

• You people are CLOWNS.

  HP has been providing DETAILED Maintenance and Service Guides for YEARS…..

• "Bald" of you talking about my grandpa's hair

• Hynix memory is bad, it has a lot of problem in 3090 GPU

• All cool and so but I still won't buy an ARM based laptop until it has socketed RAM and storage. Punkt Ende Aus!

• Still nowhere near to what is the norm where you can easily pop off the back to upgrade the RAM, replace the battery, upgrade the storage and change the WI-FI card with ease.

• Framework is NOT the cause of mainstream laptop/handheld companies making their devices more repairable. They are less than 00.0003% of the market… large companies aren’t threatened by them 😂

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