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'Microsoft's MacBook Air' is more like a MacBook Pro

Two new laptops announced yesterday are being touted as “Microsoft’s MacBook Air,” with the company claiming that they offer similar...

Microsoft was especially eager to show how its new ARM-based PCs could outperform Apple’s M3 MacBook Airs, both in sheer performance as well as battery life. John Gruber checked out a bunch of these new breed of Windows machines, and didn’t find any of them claiming to be fanless, noting that he’d expect them to highlight this if it were the case. On the plus side, it’s great to see Windows laptops at least attempting to compete – that incentivizes Apple to keep up the pace of development on both performance and battery life.

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