Is anyone using a Surface Pro 7 with an i7 processor? If so, how do you like it? Is the performance pretty good?
I’m currently using a Surface Pro 4 and wondering how big of an upgrade going to 7 would be.
It should be able to run World of Warcraft. I doubt you’d be able to tune your graphics very high but Blizzard’s pretty good about getting WoW to run on non-dedicated gaming computers.
The problem is that unless you absolutely need that portability, or space is at an extreme premium where you live, there’s just not a good reason to buy a laptop to play video games. And at a glance the Pro 7 with the absolute cheapest i7 processor still costs 1500 bucks, USD, which is more than enough to build a very nice computer.
Plus a Surface, which is fundamentally a high-spec tablet, has all the same problems a laptop has, but magnified. I’d be surprised if, after 2-4 years of regular use playing video games it hadn’t cooked itself.
This unfortunately 
Well specifically for gaming I can’t recommend the Surface laptops. They all have integrated Iris Pro graphics which is like Vega 8 level, and they also have very limited boost on CPUs due to thermals.
Look at something like the Acer Nitro or Predator.
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Unless something changes pretty dramatically I think x86-based tablets/laptops-with-guts-in-screen are something of a dead end for now, at least on the more powerful end of the spectrum (low power Chromebook-like things using Celerons/Atoms/etc might be ok). Even with the recent strides in heat and power consumption made by Intel and AMD, x86 is just too hot and power hungry for the form factor to work well.
Gotcha, the struggle is real.
In that case I’d still recomemend a traditional laptop- for 1500 bucks you can buy something like a Dell XPS (Blizzard wont let me link directly) or their G series laptops.
An all-in-one computer- although very few are built with gaming in mind- may also be a better option in terms of durability.
if your budget is around $1500 i would look at the GA401IV-BR9N6