The Surface Laptop is Microsoft’s big play to unseat the Apple as the authority in highly efficient yet powerful laptops, so we compared it to the MacBook Air.
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop could be the most impressive laptop the company has ever made. 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. That’s no mean feat, considering Apple’s striking lead since 2020, but we won’t know how it compares until we get a Surface Laptop in hand. That didn’t stop me from diving deep on their specs to see how they compare on paper.
8-inch or 66Wh for the 15-inch. Microsoft says that amounts to 20 or 22 hours of video and 13 or 15 hours of web browsing, depending on whether you’re using the smaller or bigger Surface. The MacBook Air is similar, with 52.6Wh for the 13-inch model or 66.5Wh for the 15-inch Air, good for 18 hours of video and 15 hours of web browsing, according to Apple. But don’t count on those numbers.
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