I’ve had my hands on a Copilot+ laptop for a little over a month now, and I still can’t believe how over-the-top that name is. This was Microsoft’s chance to compete with Apple’s M-series chips and the Apple Intelligence features announced at WWDC, and yet AI is arguably less present here than it was on the Windows 10 desktop I built in 2016. It’s probably a good thing the company delayed Recall, the headline Copilot+ AI feature, over security concerns . But now the PC line that was supposed to be Windows’ Apple silicon moment has gone relatively unnoticed.

It’s also a shame for Qualcomm, which used Copilot+ for its latest foray into laptop processors. Unlike Apple, Microsoft isn’t driving its own move to ARM chips, so now it has a partner with a bunch of fancy new M-series-style ARM tech to show off and no AI apps to show it off. While Copilot+ was never intended to be a Qualcomm-only deal, ARM processors were supposed to get the features first. Now the processors are here, but the features are still largely missing.

That leaves me with a well-made laptop with an OLED display, great battery life, but some compatibility issues. It’s not a bad experience, but my time with the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x could have been so much better.

Normally I would start a review by discussing design or performance, but this laptop should be different. So I would like to start by discussing the disappointment that is, or at least once was, this laptop’s biggest selling point.