If you come for the king, you best not miss…

[@photolabguy]

No matter what side you are on, it is good to see competition. More choices for individuals.

[@Malc180s]

Pretty sad you think taking a side is normal. It's pretty bloody weird and massively immature.

[@FOBob-sr1fd]

@@Malc180s A bit harsh don't you think? 😅

[@0w3nn]

@@Malc180sdon’t need to criticize him like that I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way

[@Malc180s]

@@FOBob-sr1fd nope.

[@Malc180s]

@@0w3nn I don't get it. You think supporting one massive multi billion dollar company over another is a reasonable thing? They all exist to take your money, and that's all the exist for.

[@TimothyLovall]

The feet on the surface use a "mushroom" rubber plug to be reusable instead of glue or two sided adhesive. The screws are indeed under these feet. The bottom is magnetized on instead of plastic pressure snaps like the Mac use.

[@blackmamba6938]

@@swgou The magic kind.

[@nsovomabasa5014]

@@swgou edible one's

[@houssamalucad753]

Honestly between the replaceable SSD and all of these little repairability things I'm inclined to chose the surface even if the macbook is slightly better for my use.

[@technocatdance]

@@houssamalucad753 Not to mention 120hz display is so much nicer to web browse and game on etc

[@blackmamba6938]

@@houssamalucad753 Honestly, between the non-replaceable SSD and all these non-repairability things, I bet the Macbook Air is still going to outlive and outlast any Surfacebook.

[@lindhartsen]

It's nice to see Microsoft finally making progress on ARM after so long and so many promises.

[@kirishima638]

Isn’t it Qualcomm not MS?

[@lbgstzockt8493]

@@kirishima638 Both parties are probably pouring a lot of effort into this, I can't imagine this being cheap or easy for either of them.

[@tringuyen7519]

Games won’t boot. Developers can’t code binary directly to ARM CPU bc they have to use the Windows store. This is progress? Hate to see disaster then!

[@xgui4-studios]

@@tringuyen7519 wait ? windows on arm cant open .exe file ?????

[@franci2a777]

@@lbgstzockt8493 Microsoft is putting a bit of effort, not a lot. They haven’t been pouring lots of effort in Windows for years upon years now. They definitely could do incredibly far more than anything they’ve done in the last 10ish years.

[@paalpet]

No adhesive on the feet, four screws and magnets instead of clips :)

[@darwiniandude]

No adhesive? Why don't the feet fall off then? All PC laptops with screws under feet that I've seen have the feet stuck on with an adhesive of some kind, essentially thin double sided tape or similar.

[@trekplezier7578]

@@darwiniandude they clip in, you can just pop them out and put them back in

[@darwiniandude]

@@trekplezier7578 Nice :)

[@houssamalucad753]

AND REPLACEABLE SSD! Why is no one mentioning that as a HUGE advantage over Apple

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

@@darwiniandude I like how you think its impossible, and just disregard clips

[@21ruiner]

Doesn't the surface come with 16Gb RAM as base? How was that not mentioned at all?

[@geertterharmsel]

this

[@adredy]

Mac with 4gb work like 32🎉😂

[@TheosTechTips]

It doesn't matter. Mac could still compete.

[@edgarallanmendozacampos29]

That would leave the Surface in a worse place, do you have more resources and can't you compete with a device that has half the RAM and is two years older?

[@21ruiner]

@@edgarallanmendozacampos29 Testing with cinebench, RAM has almost no impact. Being a developer I can attest to the fact their are multiple use cases where physical RAM size does matter.

[@robsquared2]

"The bezels are uneven." *Glares at notch*

[@TechwithTonyUK]

hahahaha

[@alejomakevids]

😂

[@tharushaherath1948]

notch look ok than uneven bezels

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

After a week you don't even notice the notch, they did a pretty food software magic with that and integrated inside the top options menu.

[@SirusStarTV]

@@TamasKiss-yk4st food software magic, yummy

[@catgirl_eva]

So I have a Surface Pro with the Snapdragon X Plus. In the week I've owned this computer, I've not heard the fan turn on once.

[@rowaystarco]

I have the one with Elite, the fan spun up when doing a large file download (with unpacking) and while running Witcher 3. It mostly stays quiet.

[@ajcph]

I have the pro elite and so far I didn't notice any fan noise

[@theonlyredspecial]

You turned it on ?

[@danieltrovato6766]

Me neither. Had it for 2 months

[@guzzy620]

You failed to mention that you get twice the RAM on the Surface.

[@TheAltair033]

Don't worry windows will eat up that extra ram no problem

[@adredy]

​My 5gb

[@corey7219]

Pretty hilarious that 8gb of ram for the macbooks aren't enough to run AI tasks that apple announced during wwdc

[@tharushaherath1948]

@@corey7219 "iPhones RAM"

[@tharushaherath1948]

no matter how much ram windows has it still loses to apple

[@willm5032]

Still though, its nice to see ARM windows machines that don't totally suck. And as a PC user that loves mac design language, and uses apple for work computers, a laptop like that would probably appeal to me as a nice ultrabook rather than a macbook air because windows has more versatility regarding software. Although I have a framework now so I won't be needing a new laptop for a while ha

[@ethanjrdz]

Me as a Mac user miss the native compatibility that the Intel Macs had years ago. Looking the improvement of these SD chips compared to their old SQ3 chips are looking really good!

[@LaimisMatas]

@@ethanjrdz you can always keep your Intel mac for compactibility stuff (if you mean Windows stuff) :) and Silicon for everything else! I got my trusty 2015 15" for car diagnostics and whatever else I need off the 'other side'...

[@ethanjrdz]

@@LaimisMatas used to be that way, kept my old 2016 touchbar MBP on windows 11 and my 14'' MBP for else. Unfortunately, my intel Mac literally died without any reason. I regret having it since is the least reliable macbook ever, my older 2009 MBP still boots up but it's too old for me

[@tringuyen7519]

Don’t totally suck? Games won’t even boot up on Snapdragon laptops. Developers can’t code binary directly to ARM CPU. MSFT ARM is a sh*tshow!

[@ranjitmandal1612]

👍

[@MaxTechOfficial]

X Elite is pretty impressive!

[@adriananzano2292]

power efficiency is still meh

[@jonny4036]

Dell is claiming the XPS 13 version has 27 hours of battery life.

[@Isengardtom]

It’s a very good new beginning for windows on ARM. And personally I think windows laptops are less boring than Apple’s

[@nyambe]

Impressive, but X Elite is a bit in the friend zone. Nice, I like it but... Don't you think?

[@TheosTechTips]

@@jonny4036 Dell is full of crap.

[@jkagwen]

You can't complain about one time adhesive when they allow you to repair almost every part of the laptop. Offering tutorials and parts as shown in Jerry rigs everything clip. You could change the ssd in 2 minutes without opening the laptop. That's not even comparable to heavily disliked Apple repair policies with their laptops. You overlooked some primary advantages offered by the surface.

[@Rusty01]

its magnetic now not adhesive, he didnt do his research

[@jkagwen]

@Rusty01 thats what am tending to think. He heavily skewed this towards the apple side.

[@imakesbeatz]

@@jkagwen Watch MKBHD’s interview with Tim Cook. What I took from it was “Ya don’t need it to be easy to repair if it hardly needs to be repaired”. Paid $800 for my wife’s Windows laptop brand new in 2021 and it’s unusable now. I’m running full studio sessions with guitars and vocals mic’d up off of my BASE 2020 M1 MBP that I got used from a pawn shop. Some of us don’t care about repairable products. We want RELIABLE products.

[@andyH_England]

Yes, I have seen data and Surface devices need to be repairable as they fail more often. Apple tests and makes their devices last. Of course, for those who want to buy the cheapest option and upgrade RAM and storage to save money, then Windows is the better choice.

[@jkagwen]

@andyH_England show me the data. Give me the link to where you read that. For me, I can tell you to go look at louis rossman. You apple guys will defend apple for anything. While getting charged 200 dollars for an 8gb ram upgrade

[@serkanyazicioglu]

About battery tests, qualcomm laptops have 120hz screen but MB air doesn't. Did you test with 60 or 120 on Windows?

[@andyH_England]

Does it not have dynamic refresh rates; most $1000 Windows laptops have that now? So it would not matter.

[@fred3259]

120 Hz maybe...

[@doink_v]

What power profile was the Surface set to? There's Balanced, Performance, and Efficient. That doesn't include the Battery Saver mode either, so there's a fourth option too. I'm noticing a lot of discrepancies with reviews because of this. Only one person noticed this, and it turned out to make a huge difference with performance and battery life.

[@voltspc9394]

7:50 its translation not emulation, its not fully emulating an x86 environment, its translating the calls from x86 to ARM, there's less overhead in doing this which def makes a difference and thus it's worth noting the error in terminology

[@timsonxx]

It's interesting, how most reviewers say that this Chip was Qualcomms first attemt while it obvously wasn't. The Microsoft SQ chips were Qualcomm too. and if i remember correctly there was the Snapdragon 8180 in 2018 that was specifically designed for laptops.

[@scod3908]

The M1 release was also not announce as far in advance, and was far less issue-plagued than what we've seen reported for the latest Windows on ARM laptops

[@aloaloalo7626]

Note: it's not their first attempt into the arm-for-pc competition. As a matter of fact, it's like their 5th (8cx1,8cx3,Sq1,Sq3 and now the X elite)

[@timsonxx]

and the snapdragon 8180 before that way back in 2018 before Apple even had anything in the laptop sector

[@cidsx]

does anyone remember the surface rt?

[@M16-bf4ku]

but this is the best attempt by far.... and I think they will succceed

[@MuhammadKharismawan]

​@@cidsxit's not snapdragon powered?

[@Manuel-rl6um]

SQ1 was the 8cx1 SQ2 was the 8cx2 SQ3 was the 8cx3

[@davidwilliams4845]

Surprised Luke didn't open the Surface. He would have loved the ease of disassembly and the user upgradable storage.

[@andyH_England]

The vast majority of ultrabook users will never open up their laptops. I know no one in my generation or older that would do that. I get gaming and pro machines, but this is not a selling point for ultrabooks, just the usual diehard pro-modular gang insisting that less performance is worth to have upgradeability.

[@RoiDeCoeurs]

@@andyH_Englandimagine not being a die hard repairing gang person and just wanting to upgrade/repair your computer instead of buying a new one

[@andyH_England]

@@RoiDeCoeurs, I read that most people upgrade their PCs every 4-5 years (average), so they can upgrade their SSD and RAM if needed. With the improvement in performance and battery over the last 3-4 years, I think most people should upgrade rather than keep an old LCD slow laptop that dies every few hours.

[@dirk6136]

Very good point!

[@hyperpedro2868]

It looks very easy to upgrade the SSD. This is a massive advantage. You can buy the base model with 16 of RAM and 256 Gb of storage and you can buy a big SSD later. This allows a big flexibilibity compared to the unupgradable 8 GB of RAM Macbook Air.

[@MrSamPhoenix]

This exact 13” M2 MacBook Air is now available from Amazon for $849.

[@tringuyen7519]

Agreed. $849 M2 MacBook Air that works or $999 Snapdragon Surface laptop that only works half of the time maybe…

[@housepianist]

I might take advantage of that but if Apple can introduce an entry level M4 Macbook Air and keep it at $999, I’m buying it. Otherwise, a more expensive M4 Macbook Air will make M2/M3 Macbooks (new or refurbished) a better deal.

[@waderinga7662]

@@housepianistentry level MacBook Airs aren’t priced at $999 anymore. They cost $1099

[@jayguerero47]

8GB Ram?

[@sunnysingh1604]

Where bro?? Link?

[@melahi94]

Some things to say, maybe next time you can be more objective. Is important to consider that Surface is not using big-little architecture, it means all the cores in the Surface are the same, but in Apple Silicon you have efficiency and performance cores, that contribuyes to a verter battery life but impacts on the performance clearly shown by Cinebench. Another fact is that actually 8Gb RAM nowadays should be really a criminal offense, I mean, I understand that MacOS is a UNIX based system and the RAM management is way better than in Windows, but really 8 GB is a bad joke. Enough for web browsing, some video calls, office related tasks or something that my grandmother would need to use, but not even for university students I would recommend the MacBook base model. Besides that I loved that you are one of the few reviewers showing the base model Surface performance. I mean, I think this is the only worth to buy machine from this new Qualcomm ARM computers, because there are still not a lot of software fully optimized. Also the translation layer does not work as nice as Rosetta in the very first MacBooks with Apple Silicon. Well, thank you very much for the effort to make the video.

[@TheosTechTips]

Yeah. I am a developer with a base-model Mac Mini and it's mostly fine until I want to run my VMs while running my programs at once. I definitely wish I got 16gb, but the price is so ridiculous.

[@andyH_England]

These are ultrabooks, and 8GB is enough for the majority. In the UK you can buy 16GB/256GB M2 MB Air (new) for £1100. The Surface Laptop 16GB/512GB is £1250 so very close in pricing. So I do not understand your point?

[@albertomartin70]

What was the brightness of each laptop when playing the 4k video? Why you leave important info like that out?.?

[@the_aurora]

I hope you didn't test the video playback as shown, the surface will obviously drain faster with more white and bright colors.

[@ArielGonzalez1]

you bet he did

[@thebuddercweeper]

It's an LCD display, not OLED. LCD is marginally more efficient displaying white than black.

[@joee374]

Not with an LCD, the backlight is still on over the whole panel

[@the_aurora]

@@thebuddercweeper how can any panel be more efficient displaying white than black?

[@the_aurora]

@@joee374 multi-zone backlight? even if the screen had just one zone, periods of dark scenery/imagery will cause the display to consume less energy when compared to having 1/2 of the screen having white/bright colors

[@parazels83]

Do MacBooks have any troubles if you need to connect a printer?

[@SephilockXGP44]

Just Having a Fan-less Laptop that comes close to the Performance of a laptop with a Fan is Impressive by Apple

[@TalynOne]

The macbook air overheats and throttles, it needs a fan. My snapdragon has a fan but i never really hear it.

[@athichaphaepaijitkul4099]

My m2 air indeed overheats a lot. I thought fan-less wont be a problem until I bought and use it.

[@spitsparrow]

@@TalynOne Nope it doesn't. MacBook Air doesn't have a fan. Doesn't get hot and doesn't throttle. You work for Microsoft?

[@TalynOne]

@@spitsparrow lmao I've used a Macbook Air to say it doesn't get hot or throttle is a straight up lie.

[@spitsparrow]

@@TalynOne nope. Ive used the M1 since new. It's never been hot once. Ive used Mac since g4 days.

[@janoo85]

Didnt talk aboute battery life test was in perfprmance mode balance or power save ?

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

Windows laptops will drain dramatically more battery in standby if they were plugged in when put to sleep than they do if they're unplugged first. Windows will install updates, trim the SSD, scan for malware, etc while in sleep if it is plugged in, but not on battery. However, if it is unplugged while already in sleep, it will not correct itself. It's the difference between draining 5% per day and 5% per hour. Also, this is not the first time Qualcomm has made a chip for laptops. This is actually the 4th generation. But it is the first time they made a laptop chip that isn't just a phone chip with a higher power limit. The Qualcomm/Microsoft SQ# line of chips was decent for a fanless system with maximum battery life, but performance was half or less than comparably priced computers with AMD or Intel chips. I have a Surface Pro 9 with the SQ2 and the performance is just barely good enough for me; though I barely use it because tablets with keyboards make for bad laptops and Windows makes for a bad tablet. But for handwritten note taking or sketching and movie watching it's 99% as good as an iPad Pro.

[@hyperpedro2868]

The numbers speak for themselves. $800 to upgrade for a 2To on a Mac while you can buy one for $150 and upgrade easily on a Surface. Besides you get 16Gb of Ram on the base model Surface. You also have a 120Hz touchscreen as a bonus.

[@SteveHuffer]

One thing I hate about Windows is the pitching. Begins badly when they outright try to trick you into allowing data for ads (amongst other things). Then, low-level continual shilling in the taskbar, Start Menu and Store (I know the Store is supposed to be for buying stuff, but they still manage to shill nevertheless). Constant nudges to make Edge the primary browser (again, often in a tricksy manner) and now Co-Pilot has added to the clamour (and degraded performance noticeably).Then, after major updates, you get the big, tricksy push again. I have tried the de-trickyfying methods before and they do work pretty well, but not 100% (and always with the worry that it will mess up some directory or other). Now I've just settled into default OS mode. And ultimately, Windows 11 is worse than 10 from a UX perspective.

[@nathanhoyler9912]

Hello, I had a question maybe even a future video. Can we put a macbook pro screen (2019) on a macbook air 2016 or even put an oled screen to have a better visual quantity? Thank you for your answer 😉

[@ozchvalevsky7946]

install linux

[@leolucas4922]

Easy to say impossible to do

[@rubidium1948]

Not sure if Linux on ARM would be the best experience.

[@pixselious]

Based

[@leolucas4922]

@@rubidium1948it will not even boot lol

[@ps3301]

Stick with amd chip this year.

[@josemedeiros007]

Interesting review. Does the Surface have a plastic or aluminum case? I had a Lenovo 15 inch Ideapad that I bought in 2011 that broke it's hinge twice, the first time it was under warranty and the case was replaced by Lenovo, but the hinge mount to the plastic case only use's two screws on each side and in my opinion was poorly designed. My replacement 2013 13 inch Mac Book Pro having a aluminum case is a much better design and is more durable.

[@stevensun7655]

Some of the tests are too bias and don't make much sense. For example, the battery life test running cinebench twice. Of course the MBA would do way better because it's using way less power, but as a result it's also way slower in that test as you showed yourself.

[@powerofpinesol8002]

It literally lost all of the real world tests by huge margins

[@stevensun7655]

@@powerofpinesol8002 What real world tests? Are people actually buying these to use for Blender and playing Tomb Raider?? There isn't a single real world test done in this vid. Why wasn't Geekbench included? Is it because the M2 would've gotten destroyed?

[@rtyt2007]

Mate if anything it’s biased to Microsoft, he showed an m2 MacBook Air that’s 2 years old and it still won in some tests 💀

[@SuperHyphyOne]

People don't buy an MBA to run advanced applications and to play games. It is for a school student or someone who is just doing office tasks; creating documents, email, research, etc. The MBA is also fanless. How much different would the results be if this windows laptop was also fanless? A more fair comparison would be to use a M2 MacBook Pro with a fan. It's a good first attempt from Qualcomm and Microsoft, but they still need another generation or two to get things up to speed with Apple and the M-Series chips.

[@scod3908]

@@SuperHyphyOne Air is for people who just want browser and productivity applications. Pro is for people who want more and up-spec CPU/GPU chip variants etc, which is something Snapdragon/X-Elite simply can't offer at this stage. X-Elite lives in between in no-man's land where it's not good enough for pro use and has compatibility issues, but its over-spec'd for the basic user which just reduces it's ability to compete with Apple on battery life (which base level users would actually appreciate)

[@Thegreatestcasper]

was fully calibrated hdr on when doing the screen test on the surface? while i don't have either laptop i do have an asus with an oled panel and i noticed that the contrast and colors improved quite a bit once turning on hdr and calibrating it with the windows store app.

[@Cappyey]

Very glad to see that the Snapdragon X was able to compete against the MBA as well as it did, especially is ROTR. The performance was perfectly even between the two. But draining 3x the battery at full performance compared to the MBA is not good, so I hope the next-gen chip focuses on efficiency.

[@richardnolloth]

500k Soon! Well done Luke

[@adredy]

Unsubscripe

[@adityasahasranshu7503]

The uneven bezels bother u, not the useless notch?

[@movdqa]

I usually allocate 2 days for Windows updates to completely finish on setting up a new Mac. I've not seen all of the ads that you're talking about but I've only installed the developer kits.

[@kirishima638]

The ads in Windows 11 are absolutely out of control!

[@TheosTechTips]

Ads in windows are CRAZY!

[@DarkCloud360]

Blender already offers a Windows ARM beta version.

[@TheosTechTips]

But it still doesn't support GPU accelerated rendering, so performance is still gonna suck.

[@marctech1996]

KZbinrs are like goldfish sometimes. 12:17 „This is their literal first attempt at building a laptop chip.“ Bro, What?! The 8cx processor lineup goes back to late 2018 and had three major entries before the X Elite. It predates the M Series of chips and was designed to compete with the AX chips of the time, like the A12X 😅

[@paulgeek]

For die hard Mac users like yourself, you would never switch to Microsoft, no matter what they made. I have never heard of Mac head say they can't wait to use Windows 11 instead of Mac OS. These new ARM laptops are for all the Windows users who can now stop using Mac OS due to the hardware.

[@tejasraman6913]

Hey Luke, just remember that Blender for Windows is an emulation app (it doesn’t have an ARM build so you’re running the x86 one) - this will impact performance.

[@cvought1]

I'm surprised you didn't mention that, at a time, Windows RT existed prior to Apple's M series of chips in 2012; they had an opportunity to get light-years ahead of Apple and didn't make the commitment for over a decade to really make it work well. It took Apple to showcase the sheer power of ARM to get Microsoft to make more investment. Their own fault they're now behind.

[@conradtaylor29]

Apple has been designing its own custom chips for iPhones since 2010 and I'm sure they were planning to move to their own silicon for Macs too.

[@timnonik2736]

You're missing a point. Microsoft is an open ecosystem, where developers choose which plattform they want to write their code for. Apple can just do whatever they want, they can just provide newer APIs exclusively for the plattform and even cut the support completely if the devices are old enough. Nobody wanted Windows RT, so microsoft couldn't do much. But now people want ARM as they saw its potential for great gains in efficiency over the x86 architecture. Despite everybody calling this a trend, I'm pretty confident ARM will make it on windows this time since microsoft, the manufactors and the customers are going to benefit from the more efficient plattform.

[@granttaylor8179]

12 years ago ARM chips were not that great. I am sure if Microsoft had access to Snapdragon X processor performance ARM chips back then things would be very different now. Surface RT was pretty good considering the processor power Microsoft had to use. The multi tasking on Windows 8 is still streets ahead of iPad.

[@bradavon]

Do you have a M1 Air to compare it to? Would be an interesting test. Thanks.

[@jasonbaker5430]

I think that choice really comes down to which OS you prefer. Both are very impressive. That's my opinion but heck, I have an iPad and iPhone that are great for me and I still love my Pixel too

[@itsmilan4069]

10:50 well tbh the surface 15" did beat MBA 15" with M3 in battery test by 7%

[@Chevy-jordan]

So Microsoft can have thinner bezels with no notch and a camera, but Apple, who has the best industrial designers, cannot design a screen without having a god awful notch.

[@thebuddercweeper]

The camera on the Surface Laptop looks awful

[@andyH_England]

Comparing the cameras, it does appear that having a notch gives the Macbook a much better camera, so it's worth it. Other Windows OEMs understand this and going with a reverse notch for a better camera.

[@thebuddercweeper]

@@andyH_England Reverse notches are few and far between. They're rather odd but they work.

[@sarvech76]

really good video mate. most of the reviews have a favorite before even starting the video, this was rather objective and very informative.

[@techmaster9436]

I believe the feet are clipped or magnetized in

[@Claude-tj6ud]

Is it really Apple Silicon or Safari and macOS that are better for the battery? Maybe you should have used the same browser on both for the battery test

[@SamFigueroa]

The snapdragons are already on the back foot against the M2 and soon M4 will be in Macs. Both companies will be giving each other stiff competition. This is great for consumers

[@marcelinoverazanidesouza]

Even if Qualcomm doesn't threats Apple utterly, we will see more brands next year coming with ARM SoCs for Windows after the end of Qualcomm and Microsoft's agreement of exclusivity on ARM. AMD, nVidia, maybe Mediatek are rumoured to enter the party, too. The competition will catch fire then.

[@aleksdeveloper698]

My biggest question is, is the battery of the snapdragon being drained the same also while gaming? So it lasts 12 hours gaming?

[@hermanwooster8944]

Just FYI, it's not going to be Snapdragon vs Apple silicon. MediaTek is getting in on the race and other companies are rumored to follow.

[@marcelinoverazanidesouza]

Yeees, nVidia, Mediatek (some rumors put them working together, others independently), AMD and Samsung (although I don't put faith on Exynos having success since until nowadays they struggle against all other flagship smartphones SoCs). Qualcomm won't be the only competitor to Apple on ARM for laptops next year.

[@hermanwooster8944]

@@marcelinoverazanidesouza Correct, and the best part is they should cover the whole gamut from budget to professional grade and not just competing for the upper tier with Apple. I'd consider having i5 or even i3 levels of performance if it meant triple or quadruple the battery life.

[@neroetal]

Can mediatek just go at it alone ...but Nvidia will keep poking their noses at every opportunity available... AMD need to reclaim back arm... What a regret

[@aleabo-do2kq]

is the macbook air the base model or has some kind of upgrade like ram or storage?

[@andrewsyd]

Yep. Still glad I switched to the Mac 17 years ago 😅

[@easy4242]

Wish I’d have switched sooner, I only switched about 3 years ago

[@robertp457]

On your video playback test the background on the Mac was significantly darker than that on the Surface.

[@maks_zbogar]

I have M1 Macbook Pro 13 2020, with 512GB SSD. I wanted to upgrade SSD and was told it is not possible. I purchased the cheapest Microsoft Surface pro 11 with 256GB SSD for 980 EUR and a replacement SSD 2TB WD Black for 150 EUR. All together is much cheaper than any Apple 2TB M? computer or tablet. Every platform has it's strength.

[@andyH_England]

I use Google Drive for most of my storage, although the X Elite currently cannot install this. So I have a 256GB drive and use an external drive for backup and stuff I do not always use, keeping my SSD clean and ready for a very long life.

[@maks_zbogar]

@andyH_England I use Google workspace for business plus (5TB per user) too. But I temporarily need larger disk space for production. When the project is finished, I upload it to my Shared drive.

[@plainuser48596]

10:34 is that how you've tested it? should have switched to fullscreen otherwise you lose a lot of battery for lighter theme on windows. I expect windows will lose this test, but at least give it a fair chance

[@minikame2272]

The uneven bezels on the Surface are vastly preferable to the notch on the M2. I have the M2 myself, and I love it to pieces - but it's been seven months now and I still hate the notch every single time I open the machine up. I don't notice it once I get started with what I'm doing on it, but Christ does it make me want to puke all over the place on a regular basis.

[@madebybela]

if you set a 16:10 resolution with an app like BetterDisplay or SwitchResX you can get rid of the notch since it scales below it. Was one if the first things I did when I got my 14" M1 Pro and I never looked back lol

[@orangeofmars2835]

I am currently going through close comparison of my Surface Pro 8 and iPad Pro 2018 as an full featured full productivity away from desktop laptop/tablet hybrid. So far the Surface Pro 8 feels best but will wait until this fall to be sure. If I upgrade my Surface Pro 8 to a Surface Pro 11 (or this fall's Lunar Lake version) I will likely still keep my iPad Pro 2018 until future iPad Pro's come out when I will likely upgrade to an 11 inch that will function as a tablet rather than laptop.

[@davekorbiger]

Nice to see BeamNG in the comparison, love that game!

[@Professor-eu1ll]

Hi Luke, what mac would you recommend for programmers looking into the used market right now?

[@M22018]

on this video I see "this is good, but my Mac still my fav"

[@Toshikumo]

Do you have v sync enabled for Tomb Raider? it's really odd its a fixed 30 fps.

[@edrosiak]

You can try to make MS products look like Apple products, but, the reality is, they always fall short. They’re short term designed to bring people back into the MS Software trap.. not me…

[@samuelakowuahokyereh8555]

Is it better operating system or better silicon. ?

[@pcefbol6704]

Let's hope the next generation resolves fan noise, battery life, and graphic performance. However, it’s great competition. Congratulations to Qualcomm for attempting to bring the Apple Silicon experience to Windows users.

[@thebuddercweeper]

Those are the three things we've been hoping for Intel and AMD to solve for years, decades really. Still, the CPU is an improvement over Intel.

[@davemorrison9775]

The M4 one loving the iPad M4

[@CM51PRO]

Apple reacting to the Microsoft surface battery life: "HA HA HA HA How Naïve"

[@Cowicide]

I would hope that Apple is getting nervous that they're starting to catch up and push to keep the lead.

[@Bobenhaus]

@@Cowicide Apple is becoming passé '

[@tringuyen7519]

@@BobenhausGames won’t boot up on Snapdragon laptops. Developers can’t code binary directly to ARM CPU bc they have to use the Windows store! Horrid!

[@tamwilfred]

As long as the battery life improved a lot in one of those machines is probably all that matters to normal people. At least for my use that ungodly battery life on apple, Was way too much. I don't mind being plugged in every now and then.

[@yuvrajsingh099]

The Omnibook x has 15 hours of battery life. More than air.

[@knofi7052]

I would love to see something like that with a fully featured bios and being offered without an operating system for installing a native ARM Linux.

[@davidwilliams4845]

Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that for me, Windows 10 is probably going to be my last daily driven Windows version. I just can't stomach the ad pitching and Microsoft account tying that is becoming more and more intrusive. Unfortunately, the Linux experience on these ARM chips just isn't up to snuff, and probably won't be for a long time, if ever. So I'd be stuck with x86 laptops. Maybe I have to look at Apple? I daily drove a Retina MacBook Pro 6 years ago because that's what my employer gave me, and the OS was fine. I actually had two of them, one running MacOS, and one running Win10. MacOS was used for daily office stuff, and the Windows one was used for Windows software development. Now everything I do is embedded development, either Linux or bare metal, so I can use any OS I want for development, although I usually need to keep a Linux VM around for at least some things. All of which I could probably do on Apple Silicon.

[@akin242002]

Is it me because the example used for the display made the surface laptop display look better.

[@the_crimsonprince1658]

I felt the same 👍

[@Isengardtom]

Yes agreed. I’m watching this on my OLED iPad and feel the surface looked better too

[@akin242002]

@@Isengardtom I think he may have mixed up the names because the M3 Air has 100 more nits of brightness from a tech spec standpoint.

[@Rusty01]

@@akin242002 nah the surface i think is 100 nits brighter

[@TheosTechTips]

@@akin242002 The surface is brighter actually.

[@King-Julz]

Your battery test... Was that done with the same brightness on both?

[@mmlewis1030]

Note on battery life: Laptop 7 screen brightness is 600 nits vs 500 nits on the M2 Macbook Air. 20% more brightness needed to be sustained at 100%. Makes sense the battery life would be worse under similar workloads.

[@alehkhantsevich113]

Plus I am pretty sure he tested with 120hz, compared to apple 60. First time see so stupid battery test.

[@andyH_England]

For the benchmark battery test, the laptops were not running long enough for that difference to be noticeable. The Surface was destroyed in that, so I suspect that the M2 is definitely significantly more efficient in intensive workloads and probably 20-30% more efficient in media playback (the M2 was over two years old, so it would be 10% lower in capacity). Nits is not a linear transition, so 600 nits is not 20% brighter than 500 nits.

[@Bizmops]

and also the m2 air battery size is significantly larger.

[@rondavis182]

That M2 has a two year old battery, and it lasted longer.

[@andyH_England]

@@Bizmops The M2 Air battery is smaller than the Surface Laptop but is two years old, so it could have lost 10%. If new it could have up to an extra hour SOT.

[@davidnagy510]

I would be interesting to see how or if you can upgrade the windows with ram or a hard drive in the future?

[@nathanwilliams8269]

"Took 40 mins to update, hurry up I'm bored" Oh you mean like updating ANY Apple products OS? Don't get me started. Hey Apple ever heard of fast charging?

[@geertterharmsel]

after mac osx i switched to chromeos for my couch notebook. I can figure out why the big boys cant use that update techniek? updates take less them 60 seconds.

[@Naji123kh]

hello, i have a 2015 macbook air with dual core i5 with 8gb ram and 256 ssd and still using it on mac os monterey and still works like a charm, but a couple of days ago i received a macos sonoma update in my settings app and to my knowledge this macbook air is not supported on macos sonoma, so i just wanna know should i update through the settings app, if i do what happens does it just update like a normal supported mac or not ? to anyone please help if you see this comment and thanks in advance ..

[@DeepakRamroop]

What are you saying? The mac screen loos awful 5:07

[@MuthappanThaadi]

can you tell me how you played beam ng on the mac?

[@TechwithTonyUK]

The feet are not one time adhesive, they pop in and out! So I feel like this is such a one sided test in so many ways Luke. I get you love Apple, but I own both M series MacBooks, and this exact X Plus laptop, and things like battery life are dependant on so many factors, like when you do the second video test the Mac is in Fullscreen and the Surface is not, the Surface screen is brighter than the MacBook so how do you make sure the test is equal? example, 50% Brightness is not the same on each laptop. The MacBook has a much bigger battery to start with compared to the Surface, What power mode are you in for these tests? This seems like a rushed video with bad test procedures in my opinion. You remember what M1 was like on initial release, hell I even watched your livestream during the announcement. But your videos are becoming more frustrating to watch the more and more content you put out! Sort it out please Luke. From a long term subscriber.

[@lukemiani]

The videos were run in fullscreen on both machines for the actual battery test

[@TechwithTonyUK]

@@lukemiani That’s not what I saw at 10.04. But if that’s all your response is to my comment then it speaks volumes on what you think about your subscribers!

[@mojave5661]

@@TechwithTonyUK entitled much? you're watching a summary, not the actual tests in real time. you're grasping at straws with that argument. not to mention, "white pixels" consume the same amount of power as "black pixels" on an LCD panel if the brightness is the same. you're just blocking less of the light

[@mojave5661]

@@TechwithTonyUK it's also the name of a desert if you didn't know. but as you said, "if that's all your response is to my comment then it speaks volumes". you're in a public comment section, learn to accept other people's input

[@TechwithTonyUK]

@@mojave5661 Touche

[@rickkarrer8370]

It seems like Qualcomm needs to design their laptop SoCs from the ground up, like Apple did, instead of adapting their server SoCs down to a laptop. That will really allow them to match Apple Silicon much more closely in all metrics.

[@scod3908]

You think the ex Apple employees designed a server chip that was never released in a server application? Seems strange to me that they claimed they were working on server tech, but then made BANK selling out ARM mobile device technology to Qualcomm. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Looks like they've been sued by everyone involved including ARM.

[@wannahit9357]

It also kills the M3, just depends on which X Elite chip you got.. And make sure power setting is set to performance... This differs a little bit depending on laptop manufacturer.

[@phloxevl0]

Hard to believe that the Surface lost 35% charge over 20 minutes. You either have a faulty unit or battery calibration is off

[@CraigDavis949]

Hi Luke, Do you have any experience running Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon? It'd be great to see a comparison of these the devices both running linux once it arrives on the snapdragon. Keep up the good work!

[@Baumanly]

Apple Fanboy chooses Apple? I’m shocked 😂

[@dairyfreemilkyway239]

He chose your mom

[@The92Waffles]

yea but we all choose what we prefer. A strictly Windows user doing this video would probably be more forgiving towards the Surface

[@Dk203_orion]

Windows have ads, I am not shocked 😂

[@thetabletopskirmisher]

And a Windows fanboy still can't get over the whole fanboyism still?

[@tudy25]

what's the wallpaper on the Mac??

[@julio4494]

lol you wanna talk about bezels? What about the notch 😅🥺 I hate it

[@RobertoArana-ep1he]

the 120hz is a game changer tbh

[@rickkarrer8370]

How to use a Windows device: Step 1, turn on the device. Step 2, run updates. Step 3, use another device.

[@tmh462.]

Isn't/wasn't SQ1 and SQ2 also ARM? If so, this isn't really the first generation, it's the third--unless it's a completely new architecture.

[@joshj88]

My main issue with the Snapdragon laptop is the fact it’s running Windows 11, with all the spying, upsells, and nagware Microsoft can put in it. Plus the taskbar is all wrong for me anyway and I’d like my start to be in the lower left again.

[@ranjitmandal1612]

And you can customise it that way 🤷

[@moow950]

So now Microsoft is fully supporting Windows on ARM, will the time be soon there you can use Bootcamp on Macs to boot Windows 11 ARM natively like it used to be on Intel Macs?

[@jakejoyride]

you think apple will allow you to install something else on MacBook? they own your device

[@davidwilliams4845]

No way. The market pressures that made that attractive to Apple back when Apple switched to Intel doesn't exist to the same degree anymore. That doesn't mean that you won't be able to install Windows at some point, but Apple isn't going to be writing and maintaining the drivers.

[@xluumu]

@@jakejoyrideAt some point Apple said that it is up to Microsoft to offer their OS for Apple machines, so doesn’t really sound like they have anything against it.

[@scod3908]

@@jakejoyride if you run Windows on a Macbook, they already sold you the device Up until ~2020 millions of people dual-booted Windows on their Mac to run OS-specific applications It actually negatively affected sales when moving away from intel processors took away this feature, users were left unable to bridge the gap when transitioning to Mac OS. This was somewhat offset by just how amazing the M1 SoC was when it was released

[@scod3908]

@@xluumu too much money to be made cutting deals with Parallels etc, and Microsoft/Windows don't care that it's not ideal because it means we can't natively compare the hardware/SoC that way

[@sumbochen]

No RayTracing. Glitchy. Still 2 years behind Macbook. Not worth the headache. Hard pass.

[@ranjitmandal1612]

Huh why do you need ray tracing?

[@ronkemperful]

I agree with you. The Snapdragon ARM chips have made quite a bit of progress. I have a M3 MacBook Air with Windows 11 running in Parallels and was impressed as to how well Windows ran indirectly on the Apple silicon. As an Apple enthusiast of sorts I am hopeful that when ARM edges out X86 chips that more interchangeability will happen allowing PC software to run on a Mac natively... and this is a wishful thought, that Apple will end up giving up restricting touchscreens to tablets and phones but adopt them universally across all devices.

[@TheosTechTips]

Yeah. I really hop the Apple can bring Boot Camp back. IT would be SO COOL if it could use hardware-accelerated x86 emulation so we can run all windows programs!

[@drfrancintosh]

Considering the MBA is a consumer laptop, I would say the Windows Snapdragon wins. Most consumers aren't going to be phased by the minor display advantages, heat, or even battery life. But to have everything a MBA has, plus Windows OS, PLUS a touch-screen... I'd say the Surface more than edged-out the MBA. And I'm a Mac Fanboy. ;)

[@conath]

Not sure what you meant by the Snapdragon/Surface offering “better x86 compatibility”. Mac has Rosetta 2, which runs practically all x86_64 Mac programs that weren’t already outdated before the transition. If you mean 32-bit as in literally x86 compatibility, then sure, but that hardly applies to modern use cases?

[@WhyInnovate]

Put charts comparing the two, viewers will love it

[@blanco4787]

Can you connect an EGPU to the surface?

[@ken1w]

Battery life is key for me. Performance is important, and I noticed a huge performance improvement from my last Intel MacBook to my M1 MacBook, but I haven’t upgraded since then because I probably won’t notice much performance difference (in my day-to-day use) between M1 and M3. That Apple Intelligence stuff may compel me to finally do it, once it matures and it’s M5 by then. For battery life per charge, I use my MacBook like I use iPad. It’s mostly disconnected from everything during use, unlike my old Intel MacBook mostly connected to power during use. I connect my M1 MacBook when I get the 10% warning every two or three days, don’t think about battery too much otherwise. Your experience with battery life of that Surface is better than with Intel, but inferior to Apple Silicon, even my older M1.

[@paulh43]

Rounded screen was already there on Laptop Studio from 2 years ago.

[@lamarsheridan6030]

Great presentation my friend. All in all , i’m going to remain with the Apple Eco System . By the way, What exactly does arm mean ?

[@CtrlAltPrint]

do another Mac Pro 6,1 video but this time install the latest Sonoma with OCLP so everyone can see how amazing of a deal it is for a Mac if you get the right options or upgrade it.

[@melkileo]

Good video. It's a shame you tested the battery life with the surface having more bright colors to show (the browser being windowed)