I feel if you’re considering a Surface Laptop, for the same price it would remiss not to consider the M1 MacBook Air in the same category for the fact it has more power, better battery life and better thermals. The M1 chip basically beats out not only the Core i5/Ryzen 5 at price parity level to the entry level Surface Laptop, but also the added cost i7 option as well. Battery life
Since you care about quality, the all metal build would be great for you, so I would recommend the Acer Swift 3 because it comes with everything you need, AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Octa -Core CPU, 8GB of ram, good SSD storage of 512GB for faster boot up and loading, 14 inch Full HD IPS screen, 100% sRGB coverage, high build quality, and backlit keyboard.
I feel if you’re considering a Surface Laptop, for the same price it would remiss not to consider the M1 MacBook Air in the same category for the fact it has more power, better battery life and better thermals. The M1 chip basically beats out not only the Core i5/Ryzen 5 at price parity level to the entry level Surface Laptop, but also the added cost i7 option as well. Battery life
i would LOVE to get an M1 it ticks all the boxes but i dont like using OSX
Since you care about quality, the all metal build would be great for you, so I would recommend the Acer Swift 3 because it comes with everything you need, AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Octa -Core CPU, 8GB of ram, good SSD storage of 512GB for faster boot up and loading, 14 inch Full HD IPS screen, 100% sRGB coverage, high build quality, and backlit keyboard.