Microsoft just did a live batch photo editing comparison between their new Surface Laptop and the MacBook air M3. Theirs handled the job almost twice as fast ... Love when tech companies directly address the competition #MicrosoftEvent

Best part was when the presenter tried to use touchscreen on the MacBook and said whoops

Yeh, but it’s still Windows…

Did they give the specs of the Mac? The emphasized 32 gigs of ram on the PC. The air starts at 8 gigs, goes to 24. Makes a big difference in memory intensive tasks which end of that they used. But Apple does need to get their M4 computers out soon.

The new surface laptop with 32gb of RAM costs $2099, the macbook air m3 cost 1k. Is thia comparison fiar? Why they didn't compare to a 2k macbook pro?

My guess is the mac example was using little/no apple silicon optimizations?

Are they plugged or unplugged? Is the program optimized for both systems? Are they using hardware accelerated for anything in the demo? Reviewers will have a great time, I can already see @LinusTech so ready! PS: are Intel/amd stock down?

Great. Now let's see how it performs on battery power lol

Did he really just used “with up to 32GB of ram ours is faster” as performance indicator against an entry level MacBook Air?

Lol quick find a thing our product can do better( nothing anyone will ever do as a customer ) and show it and say “ Hey see our product is faster at doing this random thing than the other product” xD

They are comparing a pro pc laptop against an entry cost laptop from their competitor 😅not even fair