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All of Microsoft's MacBook Air-beating benchmarks


Microsoft is confident it can beat the MacBook Air.

It’s so confident it has finally got Windows on Arm right that it spent an entire day pitting its new Surface Laptop against the MacBook Air at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, last month. While I’ve covered Microsoft’s confidence in beating Apple’s M3 processor previously, I thought it would be useful to examine all of the benchmark claims and battery life estimates in detail. Microsoft claimed onstage last week that new Copilot Plus PCs with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processor will offer “20 percent more battery life than the latest MacBook Air 15-inch.”

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