4 ways Microsoft says its Surface Laptop is ‘better’ than Apple MacBook Air M3 – Times of India

Microsoft refreshed its Surface PC lineup and launched Copilot+ PCs that are powered by Arm-based processors – similar to the ones that power the latest generation of Apple MacBooks. Company CEO Satya Nadella, while heaping praise on Apple’s innovation, said that the new AI PCs from Microsoft will outperform MacBooks with M3 chipset.

“Apple’s done a fantastic job of really innovating on the Mac. We’re going to outperform them. We finally feel we have a very competitive product,” Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said.

The company also showcased certain benchmarks where Microsoft Laptop performed better than Apple MacBook Pro. These include Raw performance, battery life and AI features, as per The Verge. Here are 6 ways Microsoft says its Surface Laptop is better than MacBook Air M3.

Multitasking performance:
On Cinebench 2024 multithreaded benchmark, Microsoft suggested that Surface Laptop (980) beats MacBook Air M3 by 50%. While on Geekbench 6 multithreaded Surface Laptop (14,000) edges out MacBook Air M3 by 16%

Real-world speed:
As per Microsoft, in HandBrake video encoding, Surface Laptop (5:08) finishes significantly faster than MacBook Air M3 (6:26). Twice as fast as the previous Surface Laptop 5 (10:30).

All-day battery life:
Web browsing: Surface Laptop (16:56) outlasts MacBook Air M3 (15:25) by nearly 2 hours
Video playback: Surface Laptop (20+ hours) surpasses MacBook Air M3 (17:45) by over 2.5 hours

AI performance:
Procyon AI benchmark: Surface Laptop (1,745) doubles the score of MacBook Air M3 (889). Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite offers 45 TOPS of AI performance compared to M3’s 18 TOPS.