Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs are faster and longer lasting than the MacBook Air.
Contents It’s been four years of running circles around Intel, AMD, Microsoft , and every laptop manufacturer with their Apple Silicon ARM chips. Until very recently, PC sales had been tanking too, all while Macs were holding steady.
“Number one, they will be the fastest, most performant PCs on the market by a very large margin,” Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president at Microsoft, told us, referring to Copilot+ PCs. “You take the fastest, most performing PC out there, let’s say it’s a MacBook Air with an M3 processor. These PCs will outperform that by 50% on the Cinebench benchmark.”
Across the board, these new Copilot+ laptops are shown to be around 16% faster in multithreaded performance and 46% better in sustained performance over the 15-inch MacBook Air M3. This remained true in applications like Cinebench R24, Handbrake, Photoshop, and Geekbench 6. For example, in Geekbench 6, the new Surface Laptop scored 14,000 in multi-core, while the MacBook Air 15 M3 sat at around 12,000, hitting that 16% difference.
Battery life If MacBooks ever had a calling card, it’s been battery life. That was true before the Apple Silicon era, but it really became a clear distinguisher with the M1. MacBooks went from a few hours longer lasting to over twice as long. It’s not that MacBooks had better battery life — they were an embarrassment to Windows laptops.
“When you’re done and you walk away from your computer, you come back hours, minutes, days, the next day, once you open that lid, the machine will be ready to go and log you in,” Pavan Davuluri, the lead of the Windows and Devices team, told us. “That required us to really focus on standby power. We minimized hibernation of the Windows platform itself.”
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