With the latest Microsoft conference there may have been the long-awaited one breakthrough in the PC market. At the 2024 Surface event there were announcements of a certain importance, all accompanied by field demonstrations that confirm the excellent work done by the Redmond giant and its partners. Above all Qualcomm, which created the chip Arm Snapdragon X Elite 12-core e Plus 10-core.
Microsoft Surface Pro vs MacBook Air M3
Speaking of demonstrations, the new devices Surface Laptop e Pro have been compared to the main rivals on the market today, namely Apple’s MacBooks. As reported by Tom Warren of The Vergethe company spent about an hour on application demos and benchmark results between Geekbench and Cinebench.
The next-generation Surface Pro, for example, was compared to the MacBook Air M3 recently presented by Apple. Well, Microsoft’s new 2-in-1 (also available in the version with OLED display) delivers 58% higher multithreaded performance compared to the last generation 15″ Air with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU.
The results are in favor of Microsoft’s newcomers also with regards toefficiency. The new Copilot+ PCs guarantee up to 15 hours of web browsing or 22 of local video playback, the MacBook Air M3 offers 15 hours of web browsing, but stops at 18 hours when it comes to video playback. The difference is small, but it’s there.
Il Surface Pro 11th edition (as it is called by Microsoft) is a 2-in-1 that runs Windows and can also be configured with an OLED display. Given this, it could be seen as a rival toiPad Pro M4 unveiled just a few weeks ago by Apple, but the latter has a limit Not insignificant: It doesn’t run a desktop operating system. The Surface Pro, however, arrives with Windows 11 on board.