India, Feb. 21 -- There was a time in the not-too-distant past, when there was collective hope from Microsoft's Surface computing devices. That these would illuminate the path, one the rest of the PC ecosystem would follow. You may have thought the same about Google's Pixel phones not too many years ago

(to similar disappointments), but I digress. Surface laptop, and indeed the entire line-up, was just like everything else around it. Another choice, not one that stood out for any reason. That is perhaps beginning to change with the 7th edition of the Surface Laptop, considering its an evolution on many fronts. The arrival of Qualcomm's artificial intelligence focused chips to break the Intel and AMD duopoly, performance per watt battles ...