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How does the Microsoft Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air?


Microsoft comes knocking at Apple’s door.

It has a modern chassis with thin display bezels and a new Arm-based CPU that might just give Apple laptops a run for their money when it comes to performance. Apple, on the other hand, tested an M3 MacBook Air, also using 1080p video, with the brightness set “8 clicks from the bottom.” Depending on the panel, that can be similar to 150 nits, but there’s no guarantee. The company says the neural processing unit (NPU) in the Surface can carry out 45 trillion operations per second, or TOPS (that’s the number of mathematical equations it can solve per second).

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