Surface Laptop 5 vs M2 MacBook Air - Better than a Mac?
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It would be beaten by M1 Pro the intel
I love how a few years ago Apple was getting absolutely torched for making smoking hot laptops because Intel hadn't figured out a way to make a powerful yet efficient chip. So Apple said screw it, we'll do it ourselves and now we have some of the best laptops ever, which is making other companies revise their strategy and pick up the pace.
i agree. the other companies don't know what's coming at them next though. Next year we'll have 3nm M2 Pro and M2 Max
@@Zellzoi those are gonna be insane. Ima get an m2 pro 16” and not buy another for like 7 years lol
AMD seems to be trying to come up with better chips. Intel seems to have lost focus.
And strangely enough, it was still considered better laptops by some because of built quality, track pad and keyboard qualities, screen quality... Then Apple screwed up the keyboard big time and port selection and keyboard quality was not anymore a topic and Apple was courageous. Then Apple releases great chip, correct selection port and now benchmark became again THE factor of choice of a laptop with port selection ore than ultra thinness and weight...
It is a moving target. What is important for a laptop is...what Apple is good at. At the time where the laptop is tested.
@@brachiator1 yeah Intel gave up a long time ago
I love how the surface is being praised for only being 17% worse than the macbook air🤣
Actually its fault of intel for supply powerhungry low efficient chips. If you have M1 chip in surface, then it surely is better in functions
😂
@@poetryrecapped no, display, speakers, keyboard, almost everything is worse than mac
inefficient chip, worse speakers, slightly worse screen, inferior keyboard, and with the only up-side being the touch screen, do you really think the Surface here is better value?
@@markmorov9301 Keyboard is worse than a Mac? That's hilarious
WOW. Max Tech never disappoints, I was literally looking for this comparison last night.
I switched from a Surface Laptop 3 because it sometimes became laggy and the display's response time is extremely bad. However, my biggest issue with it was the reflectivity of the display. Using it during the day is terrible, especially when your setup is near a window. I could see myself in the screen of my notebook and it was quite distracting.
Same thing happened to me with my reflection on the screen… it was super distracting. You probably are as beautiful as me. 😎
Omg yes! The reflective display was SOOOO bad.
I have the same issue with a work-provided Surface Laptop - & for what? Finger-scrolling webpages & docs isn't a full touch interface.
most touch screens are pretty reflective.
@@tom_marsden & for no real benefit on Windows.
I want to like the SL5. The exterior looks absolutely amazing, but with results like these, I am questioning why they are charging nearly the same as a MacBook Pro.
Trackpad
it's important how it performs in real life tasks rather stress tests. for sure, the mac has better performance at the upper limit but will you ever be at the limit? they cost a bit too much though. i'd rather go with a dell xps
@@sultanabran1 I had the same thought, and really tried to convince myself to buy one. However, if the upper limit is lower, so should the price. I ended up buying a Framework 13 for much cheaper. It has the same beautiful metallic chassis and comes with modular components.
I'd like to see some of these performance comparisons running Windows ARM on the Mac via Parallels. You lose some of the CPU cores and RAM, as it has to run on top of the MacOS, but then you get two computers in one, which is great if you absolutely need Windows for some things. I suspect the virtual Windows machine would still compare favourably to a lot of these Surface benchmark results.
Sadly, most main apps that I use are only native to windows... that's why I'm still sticking to my surface
Dope comparison video. I just ordered the M2 MacBook Air 512GB option in silver as my secondary or travel laptop.
I got my MBA M2 last month, as an traveling engineer I do not regret it!
Do you know if the m2 can work with meta trader and / or cTrader. I’m searching for a bday present
So in a nutshell, the Surface finally caught up to last years M1 MacBook Air.
Interesting comparison - I actually have a Macbook for personal use and a surface for work so I often compare the two - I like the surface well enough but to me there’s no question that I prefer the Mac. As noted in this video, there’s no comparison in terms of the trackpad, which I think is a big deal. The Mac OS does have some issues imo so not perfect but still superior I’d agree
Why do u prefer mac? Can u suggest which one i should buy? I never used mac before and I in a dilema now whether to buy a surface or mac.
@@edwardkenway6526 depends on what you will use the laptop for - I have a 14 inch MacBook Pro and find it’s great for many tasks, has great sound for playing music and videos etc, has a good amount and variety of ports including an an sd slot, which I appreciate as I work with photos from my camera a lot, seems quite fast when using photo editing software or doing gis work. For many users, an MacBook Air would likely be fine though. Macs can’t use some software including some mapping software, have a different underlying OS including a different sort of command line - some people might prefer the windows OS for programming etc. It also depends on what other devices one uses - if you have an iPhone and iPads, these integrate well with the macs in terms of sharing files etc, but if you have an android phone this doesn’t matter. One thing I noticed when comparing macs and pcs was that pcs often got very hot due to the processor whereas the macs stay pretty cool with the m series chips
Could you do a comparison video of various USB hubs for the 24" iMac? Like the Satechi, which blends with the stand or the Minisopuru USB Hub?
I love what Apple have shown the industry here in terms of moving us all away from x86 and to more efficient computing - I've been running an M1 Air for over a year and it's the best computer I've had in a very long time. The 2023 Windows dev kit (see volterra) contains an ARM-based computer a bit like the Mac Mini that appeared in the Apple dev kit before M1 was released. Microsoft, Intel and AMD are all getting ready for ARM. Intel hasn't really caught up with Apple in terms of efficiency but I'm sure I've seen some Intel benchmarks that show 12th Gen i9's been super quick, but running hot enough to melt the sun at the same time. I'm exaggerating there, but you get the idea - Intel can do quick, but not efficient right now. With MS trying to get developers to move to ARM I honestly think x86 won't be in most mainstream computers within the next 2-3 years. Intel, ARM and a host of others (Qualcomm) will all have their branding all over laptops with their flavour of ARM, where ARM will be the latest thing in PC World, and all the other shops that non-techies buy their gear from.
@Max Tech what about Surface performance once plugged in? Does it change significantly?
I love this channel, and watch every episode because the content is soo good. With this in mind-why the speaker tests? It’s pretty hard, if not impossible to really hear a difference between the device speakers while listening over AirPods, or worse, a phone’s speaker.
The question is not geared just for this channel, as a number of other reviewers do the open mic speaker tests too, and it always leaves me scratching my head.
While you're right, it becomes entirely distorted in the process. You can still hear how the Air had EVIDENTLY fuller audio even though this type of test has countless flaws. I for one still appreciate it since you can usually tell which one is better relative to the other, but not how good each is on their own.
I purchased a Macbook Pro 16. I was very pleased with its performance. I did not hear any fan noise since I purchased it. The battery lasts over 12 hours even with RUclips. The touch pad is perfect. I am planning to buy a 14 m2 pro after they release them.
Why???
that 16-inch macbook is totally gonna hold you over for longer than that IMO, assuming it's an M1 Pro or M1 Max. i picked up a 14-in M1 Pro, pretty much base model except for SSD, and it's just marvellous. have had it for 7 months and the fan has never been audible - meanwhile it still stays either cool or just warm at most -- never hot. can't see myself needing an upgrade until 2025/26 at the very earliest, but of course to each their own.
@@00z53
My post was before they released the m2 pro with 5 micron chips. I just want a smaller laptop but I still will keep the 16 inch one. The 16 inch is more practical and useful. Now I changed my mind and I will wait for the 3 micron chips next year before I buy the 14 inch Macbook pro.
This video is very helpful when you are considering which of the two laptops to choose. I was excited to test Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 until I opened Zoom Meeting! It is just disappointing. I don't understand why the camera quality is low at 720p. I used Micorosoft Surface Book 2 (released 2017) and it has better camera quality with 1080p(!) than Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (released 2022). Since Covid-19 home office work is important, so many people are looking for the better camera quality! So disappointing.
Really like the comparison. One funny thing about the fingerprints on the Surface Laptop, I completely agree theoretically, but somehow I have noticed that I have never seen any laptop with more fingerprints on their displays than MacBooks. Somehow, at least the people around me, cannot refrain from touching their displays when they want to show something. I don't know why, but at least that has been my experience
Anyone that tries to touch my MBP screen gets their hand slapped.
Intel still isn't as good of a deal with that heavy TDP. M2 Air will be better of compared to ASUS Zenbook S13 OLED with Ryzen 6800U as it is in the same price bracket and better power to performance when compared to Intel 12th Gen.
Fantastic video. Just what I needed to know. THANK YOU! +1 for the vid.
Those bezels with the microsoft LMAO
They have a cheaper laptop (the Surface Laptop Go and Go 2) with much slimmer bezels. I don’t know why they didn’t put it on their more expensive laptops…
@@xLeafy_y u know that microsoft is just evil as apple right? see their line up lol they’re as expensive as apple macbook but the performance is just worst
@@benkem7584 How is this revenant to my comment?
The Mac notch lol
Can you compare the m2 with the surface studio laptop? It should also have an excellent designated GPU which should be able to compete with the M2 MacBook.
Would definitely very interesting to see.
Just worth pointing out adding a separate GPU would decrease battery life even more, even if it did catch up in certain benchmarks.
At the end the Surface was just too embarrassed and decided to shut down 😅
Underrated comment
Ok isheeps
You were supposed to show the plugged in scores as well later in the video..
Macs are nice hardware wise with those new chips... just wish they could actually do things I want to do. I really only want to run Linux, and be able to run most Linux software and games, including Windows games. That all works fine on a good intel or AMD cpu laptop... its pretty much impossible on a Mac.
Maybe Windows laptops with 6000 series AMD processors could be a better match for m2? They have much better iGPUs and better multicore performance than intel i7-1255U
I'd prefer to see a comparison with AMD APUs. Intel is very good at getting most performance but it needs power for that. They're not as efficient. Biggest problem is they are stuck at 10 nm (or as they call it Intel 7...).
AMD is more efficient and still has high performance, way better battery life and an iGPU that could be used for rendering! Therefore this comparison make more sense.
I'm really interested to see, what AMD will bring with phoenix, their next APU with Zen4/RDNA2(or 3).
Even if the Intel can come close in performance, the ending says it all. The “Intel is catching up” line only applies when you don’t look at efficiency. I’d rather have slightly worse performance for more battery life and the fact that the Surface has neither is a big L. It’s good if you need windows I guess.
windows through parallels on mac is faster than windows on surface
Windows vs Mac is the less distinctive aspect of the comparison.
The most important distinction is touch and pen support.
Obviously, what is more relevant in Microsoft line up, and make up most of the sales indeed, is the Surface Pro because you have also the fact that it is also a tablet with an integrated kickstand.
Then, the OS comparison comes into play because you compared also Apple iOS tablet with all its limitation to a Surface with all what Windows allows to do.
So really, the question is not really Windows versus Mac but much more the hardware versatility. Which is something the channel will almost never mention because this does not go in the direction of the narrative of the channel.
@@jeanbaptistelabelle That is true, the conclusions drawn are biased but I don't think it is the fault of the channel.
It's just a matter of what you use the device for, the use case being presented here is that of a video content creator so it makes sense that the tests focus on video editing and photoshop. I'm sure a digital artist would say the surface is better because of the stylus and versatility. And a person who has used one OS their whole life will say the one they use is better because they are used to it regardless of hardware advantages and disadvantages.
Though I won't disagree that these guys usually pick a winner and frame it as a landslide win so then when the tables turn it's more dramatic and unexpected.
@@jeanbaptistelabelle the only reason why I would buy a Surface over a MacBook is for pen support, but even then the iPad Pro lineup, even models from two generations ago are way better value and are more portable. I am not wasting thousands of dollars on a Surface when other options that Apple offers other than the MacBook can outperform and outlast these inefficient Intel-based laptops.
@@Nicolas-nl1gp true but even for "content creator", I am surprised that they never mention the appeal of having touch or pen support on a Mac or the appeal to make content creation on a tablet.
For some, having Resolve coming on the iPAd is a huge deal. I know for me I love using Resolve on my Surface in tablet mode on the couch.
Also, editing RAW pictures in tablet mode in the train or bed is great and drawing mask with a pen is much more pleasant than trying with a mouse, even when my Surface is docked to a 4K monitor.
So even for content creation, having a flexible device, running all the standard state-of-the-art softwares people use and that support pen and touch is a benefit.
They always present it like "for the few person that want asolutely pen or touch support" like it is so niche that they barely need to mention it...
All windows laptop/surface are shipped with flat sound equalizer. While sound on mac are mostly U/V curve in equalizer, mac will sound more bass and high freq better but that doesn't mean the speaker is better. You could simply adjust the equalizer on windows to be U or V shape and it will sound a lot like a mac, the bass and high freq. Speakers on surface are actually a good pairs..
I have a surface right now. Battery Life is ok for just general tasks like browsing the internet, or doing some basic document work. Anything above that and this things battery dives like a brick. It gets so uncomfortably hot on the bottom even with the fans running (they're always running) that I usually cant have it in my lap. Honestly Surface is the biggest scam in the laptop space right now. For the price you can get so much more weather you go with Windows or Mac.
At my uni we have liked the Surface, but the graphics chip gets so hot that they tend to die within 3 years. I'm on my second one and am making sure to back up every week. A Mac will last way longer.
I have a 7 years old Surface pro, a 3 years old Surface laptop, my wife has a 5 years old Surface pro. No problem so far.
@@sergelucalikasi It all really depends on how hard you push it daily. I'm currently on my third, I wish there were comparable alternatives. I throw occasional scientific computing at the things and can confirm they do tend to die within 3 years if stressed. First surface and surface book died with motherboard failures, and my current SB is developing occasional BSODs related to hardware after 2 years. I love the SB for engineering, sad I won't be able to replace it once it dies as they axed the line.
It was obvious that nine Windows laptops come close to Macs in terms of power while on battery. But how about comparison Mac vs Surface connected to power? I personally 80% of time on my laptop spend in my desk at work. So I’m curios about “full power” of Surface
Great comparison. Thank you!
I can't decide which one to choose. I'm gonna buy a laptop for (game/application) programming . I will also play some games that is not heavy.
I wouldn't be surprised if surface temps on the metal body were better on the outside since metal is better able to transfer heat to the air
Thank you. It was a great comparison.
I was a windows user for 22yrs. I switched to Mac because of the new silicon. It’s perfect for what I need! Hands down to Apple! Windows just gave me tons of headache, expect a reformat after each update. Lol
I'm exactly on the same boat. The only reason I miss Windows is because of gaming. I don't want to run those emulator shits on Mac to play games.
Other than that, the MBP has been a great device for almost a year now and I always hated Apple lol
@@sjn_ I am using my Mac for the web browser based game that I am playing and even at 120fps maxed out graphics. There are no hiccups!
I still get tons of errors on my Music Production side but when it comes to graphics or rendering. I have no complains. Maybe the problem on my Music Production side is because of the third party plugins and the DAWs themselves. But Mac productivity is a lot better! I am experiencing very smooth workflow more than ever.
Bro the bezels on Microsoft 😂😂it looks like it’s from the year 2015
bezels are also big on 2020 MacBook Air and pro
Microsoft NEEDS to move away from Intel to have ANY fighting chance. Try AMD or look into in-house arm design.
I wonder how much is the o/s and how much is the hardware? Can you still install Windows on the MBA w/o parallels?
I have a MPB 14" and use Lighroom. It's never that fast to mask the sky. So idk if something is up with my computer or yours, but that split second result feels really unrealistic.
Does browsing speedometer test change significantly if you use edge [ or chome ] for macOS? In other words is it the device hardware or safari browser or combination or the two making the difference?
Would have been nice to see the Mac vs the Surface with an egpu on the Surface. That might make it a viable contender for some people I think? But yeah the price cost would definitely shift for sure.
Microsoft should develop its own processors for notebooks that it produces.
Hi there, just wanted to ask which widget name is the one that shows the temperature and usage of CPU and GPU?
Thanks! Great Review
Sadly there is no Amd ryzen option for surface laptop 5.
I get at cinebench23 a multiscore point of 8347 and I have the ryzen 5600u.
Please do a video : Parallels on the M2 Mac vs. Surface 5 - Native Performance. All the same tests 🙏🏽
I know it's not a physical test, but from my experience (with an M1 mac), Parallels benches reasonably well, but it is just not acceptable or usable. Games obviously do not work, and Visual Studio is not a good experience either.
If you need Windows, or you want to play Windows games, almost literally any other computer on the market will serve you better than an M1 Mac. If you can get away with using macOS, though, and you're not looking for something in the price range of the 14" Macbook Pro (at which point, gaming laptops become good enough in terms of performance (or better for GPU workloads) that it's again worth considering Windows), or something with touch support, then the M1/M2 macs will be the best choice hands down.
But yeah, Parallels is completely unusable for any demanding tasks on Windows, and the pricing is terrible too.
The "cheaper" version only lets you use 4 of the M1 cores. I have tested it with the demo version on my M1 Mac Mini (with 16GB RAM) using Cinebench R23 and the results were pretty bad. If I remember correctly, the native run was 78xx points on Mac OS, on the virtualized Windows I got something like 17xx. Honestly much worse than expected, even when adjusted with the core count. Also Parallels is ain't cheap at all unfortunately.
Review comes just nice before 11.11 sales. Thanks mate!
Thanks a lot for the video
Which portable SSD would you recommend in the 1tb size for usb-c/Thunderbolt?
I love the way macs and windows laptops are set and work. I’ll say I’ll prefer MacOS for everything except the trackpad gestures. I have an hp envy with win11. And the gestures are amazing. I prefer switching between non full screen apps using 3 fingers without touching the cursor, and then switching between whole virtual desktops using 4 fingers
You can customise trackpad gestures in settings
That’s interesting as trackpad gestures are probably one of the biggest reasons I switched to Mac
@@fryball1443 even I thought like that and I was really close to buying an air but I like 15” and bigger screens and so I bought the envy. But later when I got a chance to actually interact with a MacBook and then later visit an Apple store. I felt handicapped as I was unable to do things I took for granted. Like windows snapping after dragging them to a side or a corner. Or even things like triple tap to select the whole sentence, double tap and drag for just copy and paste. I have to physically click and use 2 fingers for that on a Mac
@@keshannaidoo2 if you are talking about customizing in a MacBook, I did go through all the customizations I can do in an Apple store and it was mildly disappointing
This is the reason I bought my MacBook Air. Thank you so much for this video.
You can set your watch to log in when you open your Mac. Real quick
It's sad that Intel has allowed their processors to fall so far behind. If Microsoft succeeds in making Windows on ARM viable, I could see Intel laptops going into steep decline within a few years.
To be honest, I was expecting more from Apple. I was expecting the gaps to be twice to three times larger BARE MINIMUM, with how hyped up Apple's M series chips and accompanying devices are.
@@ilikejenna well. for video and photo editing it is like 3x faster 😉
@@DennisSchmitz And that’s the bare minimum requirement I’d expect, really it should OBLITERATE the 3x expectation. They want to build and do all this R&D? They better delivery not do the bare minimum
@@ilikejenna Well, it is the low end M2 without a fan vs an i7 with a fan.
@@ilikejenna they're not overhyped, just misinterpreted. Because people apparently cannot read charts when they were showcasing the efficiency of the M1 chips, not just the performance gap.
This sounds weird, but the non fabric version of the surface laptop works better for heat distribution.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this monstrous M2 affect Windows laptop sales.
Hello. What tool do you use on Macos to see the temperature of the CPU?
It’s really getting to the point where if you don’t need windows, don’t game on your laptop, and don’t need a touch screen, there’s no point in buying a windows laptop.
There are currently base model 14in pros on sale on early Black Friday deals for $1600. That’s a hell of a lot of machine for that price.
I can’t imagine how fast the M2 Pro/Max MBPs are going to be, not only because if the chips themselves but also because they have much better cooling systems. I see a 16” M2 Max in my future.
I don't see a 16" M2 Max in your future.
I can’t imagine how much the prices are going to be
@@Gurenn83 pay premium prices, get premium performance, it's not that hard
Also m2 pro/max are going to be on 3nm 😅
@@Gurenn83 actually, the 14in and 16in MacBook pros regularly go on sale now. Not hard to find $300+ off on a 14in and even more on a 16in.
Just saying.
It's no surprise that I got a macbook pro 14 .. when I was a windows/dos guy all my life..
Personally, as someone who owns (and loves) an M1 Macbook Air, I think for tasks that need Windows, Parallels is just not at all sufficient. Visual Studio with Parallels is frankly miserable, and the pricing on Parallels is abhorrent.
I'm not a Mac fanboy. Used Windows since 3.1, for all tasks from games to software development. Same for my wife. We work in tech, in a Windows dominated portion of it. We moved everything over to Mac two years ago when M1 came out. At this point in time, I firmly believe PCs cannot compete with Apple, on most every level, and it will take them a while to catch up (if they catch up). This is before you even consider the user experience, the update support, the ecosystem, the build quality, the longevity, and on and on. I frankly used to make fun of Apple quite a bit, but I recognize the payoff they've had from dedication to product categories, and the hard work put toward making iterative improvements in those categories. Apple is experiencing a massive competitive advantage today that has been more than a decade in the making. It's really interesting from a business perspective. Meanwhile, I'm loving my M1 MBP after one year of heavy use. I've heard the fans spool up exactly zero times in 12 months. It's like working on a computer from the future. Bravo Apple.
I laughed on the speedometer test where the surface got a score just over half the score of the MBA and dude man was like "The MBA is 75% faster!" - aaaaahh, yeah....
The MBA is undeniably better in every way - except you can't do anything with MacOS and Apple refuse to add features to MacOS or the Apple Silicon platform which make it useful. Sadly, I used my MBP for professional workloads and I had to sell it because, despite being incredible hardware, I just couldn't do anything on it. It was also the first time I needed to carry a second laptop with me when I travelled because the MBP was so severely limited.
Sold my MBP and now I am looking for alternatives. Every single PC laptop is garbage compared to the MBP but you just can't do anything with it!
I want to see a comparison between M2 low power mode and Surface Laptop 5.
What I've found about M1 in my short time with it is
- if I'm not pushing it, the experience is remarkably similar to my MacBook Pro from 2012 (with ssd upgrade)
- it's excellent when its paired with active cooling but I grudgingly understand that differentiation the SKUs would have been difficult without other artificial limits
- it's not as miraculous as I'd convinced myself it was, but accidentally starting a 4K project in final cut and not noticing until I was half done was refreshing.
- the battery life is incredible, but that battery is not long for this world given the power situation in my country 🤣
- I'm still conflicted on if I can nurse it along for 10 years like my old MacBook Pro. Without upgradeability, it seems like a flipper, not a keeper
The MBA is not made for hard tasks. You can through a lot of stuff at it, but if you start working with 5K and 8K videos, you'll fry it.
@@nkaloyanov the hard core users, will use a M2 Studio, not an MBA, that choice is a no brainer. You select your computer based on what you do, including Memory.
“Similar”? The experience for me was better than my 2015 15” MBP.
@@chrismarinohardin9929 Yes! Extremely similar! But again, this is when doing simple daily stuff like web browsing (faster networking is negated by our slow internet), launching basic applications, browsing the file system, watching local media, word processing etc. This probably has to do with it being close to the top spec of the time and using the best quality parts I could get for the final upgrade (16gb of Crucial memory, thermal grizzly thermal paste and a Samsung Evo SSD). Start piling on the layers in Photoshop or rendering videos and the M1 advantage becomes apparent.
How both machines comoares doing the same test but plugged to their powerr sources?
GPU works because of the optimization for m2. But blender doesn't recognize integrated Intel gpu's and the cpu is really slow..
what's the spec on that MacBook however... 8 core or 10 core GPU
Are they in the same price range?
How does MS fail so badly to equal the MB Air is most tasks? I'm curious for an explanation. Getting a Windows Laptop makes as I'm an Android user but I'm leaning towards getting a MB
when we talk about apple most people say that they built their own software and hardware thats why they are optimized and now where windows optimization has gone
Impressive to be slower yet use almost 2x more watts??? It's impressive Mac wins using less watts yet being cooler and silent.
The pro 13.3" Mac with fan would be a more fair comparison....the 14" pro too but it's noticably heavier than ms surface I think?
I personally liked the Surface Laptop and windows, but the power of the MacBook it's insane
Can you please what do you mean when you say power ? Im going in to college next year and idk what to get
@@jannahaltaweel4844 maybe he mean that mac book air win almost every aspec, like app procesing speed, low watt consumption, super good battery management, and even lighter. get the mac book if you already have an iphone so you have nice ecosytem.
The link to your wallpapers doesn't work
Fan noise in my quiet study drives me nuts.
@MaxTech It would be interesting to see these TESTS RUNNING ON DUAL SCREEN or TRIPLE MONITOR SETUP as that is the use case for a lot of people. Also, can you make sure to run the test while using a docking station with monitors daisy chained. This is to see the performance from thunderbolt. Cheers.
The low RAM can show its limitations in this test.
Nothing says roadwarrior like pushing around a handtruck with a couple of Arks. 😆
you can’t add more than one display to a MBA M1.
I have a gaming PC and a Mac mini m1. I found myself now using my gaming pc only for gaming for anything else I use the Mac.
So Intel hasn't caught up, they've just doped the chips for benchmarks by adding efficiency cores and we know Blender CPU & Cinebench use Intel's Embree code which is sub-optimal for Apple Silicon. The real applications show the real story - the Mac performs better at 15W than the Surface does at 25W.
hii , can you make a video of iphone 14 actions mode vs iphone 13 with gimbal .
For the price, I prefer the Macbook pro 13 M2 or the Dell Xps 13
The moft is amazing I’m using it close to a year
Unfortunately you can’t run some pc exclusive software like power bi on a mac. 😢
Mx chips are destroying x86 when SW is coded to use that power natively without any translation layers, especially in the performance per Watt category! Besides HW in this comparison is much better with the Mac with small exception probably with the microphone.
Hi Max Tech I'm upgradeing from 2015 MacBook Pro 15 inch to MacBook Air m2 2022 be big upgrade for me.
I’m also going to upgrade from a 2015 15 inch MacBook Pro
Can the surface be used as a tablet?
The only test the Surface "won" was the microphone cam.
Can you guys also compare the battery drain on sleep. Im losing about 10-15% over night, not sure why (I don’t have a time machine backup setup or anything else like that). Thanks
Thats odd, I dont really lose any battery overnight at all
@@tylerallen3876 Really? I've been consistently losing about the 10-15%. I actually had it go from 100% to 15% after 2 days of no use. I even had Apple give me a new device but still the same. I had 2 of my friends monitor theirs and they about the same as well. It's so weird, I would expect it to be maybe 1-2% max. Not sure what to do at this point.
@@ACYYZ Hmm… I’ve got a 14” pro, and I unplug it and let it sit overnight and its still at 100% in the morning. I would look at your activity monitor, and look at the energy tab. It might have to do with some cloud syncing.
@@tylerallen3876 I've been keeping track of activity monitor and the graph in battery settings for the past 3 weeks. Biggest energy consumption is coming from my browser. I don't have any background/overnight syncing setup. I wiped the entire system and re-installed the OS but no improvement lol. Apple is having me run some tests so hopefully they can figure it out. But yeah its the only complaint I have with the device, pretty frustrating. Funny thing is, the battery life is insane during normal use.
Turn off Bluetooth or the BT devices. Thats can help
The laptop analysis belies a fundamental problem -apple laptops are now so powerful you can switch to browser based and web based applications that no longer operating system dependent that periodically require you to upgrade your entire operating system and more -am I wrong?
You usually compare to both plugged and un-plugged Windows
Does the surface perform the same in both situations like the Mac?
It's so frustrating being a lifelong Windows user these days🤣🤣 These M2 macs are just so much better that they've become a measuring standard that gives legitimacy if something is "almost as good as..." with regard to some capability. I wish there was something genuinely close to them across the board, not just in 1 random test here or there
So, in many scenarios an 2020 M1 MBA could still beat a 2022 Surface Laptop, it is amazing!
my m1 macbook air would destroy that shitty intel surface, the sq3 version is even worse
How do you sign and take notes on a 2020 M1 MBA ? Or surf the web in tablet mode? Or draw a mask in a photo editing software? It is amazing that a 2017 Surface still be a t-shirt a 2022 MacBook in many scenarios...
@@jeanbaptistelabelle the iPad pro is with m2 too😂😂
@Pascal Mangei ah ? So I need to buy, carry, synchronize...also an iPad Pro ? So twice the bulk and weight? But how do I use Capture One Pro on the iPad? Oh, yes, I can't. So no serious photo editing on iPad. But then, how should I do for the mask on the Mac with Capture One Pro? Ah yes, add a Cintiq Wacom tablet?
You know what, thanks but no thanks. I will stay with my better, lighter, smaller, nicer setup 🤣🤣
@@jeanbaptistelabelle you can spin it anyway you like but the truth is: for 90% of the people out there the MacBooks with Apple Silicon are a better choice these days. 😊
Just two years ago Windows machines were a better choice but things turned around. I hope the windows laptops catch up.
These performance measurements are pretty important to folks that routinely do heavy lifting, like video rendering etc. But for the majority of laptop buyers, the factors that dictate which to purchase are more basic: Which OS do you like/are you most comfortable on? Are you used to/prefer touchscreen, or are you more of a keyboard & trackpad person? Is your phone an iPhone or Android? Do you have a wide repertoire of Key Commands that you routinely depend on? Etc., etc. I'm glad for the power of Apple Silicon; but even if it _lagged_ Intel, I'd still forego a touchscreen to get MacOS, which I'm so comfy & intimate with. Other folks may be the opposite, and won't go Mac just for some power advantage.
I game, so based on that need alone means I can never go for a Mac, no matter how much more powerful a Mac machine can be than a Windows machine. For everyone else that doesn't game, the Mac is superior to Windows in every aspect and is a no brainer to get it over any Windows machine. Had Apple embraced gaming and pushed for game developers to make games for the Mac, Microsoft/Windows machine would be close to non-existent.
@@kenhew4641 You're a great example of the 'stickiness' of OS preference. Me, I don't even care which OS is 'better' - or even if the hardware is better/faster/shinier, I just know that I have decades of habits and customization/accommodation invested in my platform of choice. If I'd been a gamer years ago, I'd probably now have just as much invested in Windows, and zero interest in Mac. In a given year, how many people shift OS/platform?? (Aside from changing job-related necessity.) Less than 2%, I'll bet.
All that said, there's one Mac specific strength I'm really grateful for: My M1 MBAir has great battery efficiency, no fan (so dead quiet), and never gets hot. Those qualities, important to me, may be way down the list of priorities for someone else.
@@pbasswil as I said, it's not that I have a choice. Apple made their decision of not embracing and pursuing the gaming market, never bothered to. This leaves us gamers no choice but to gave to go with Windows, even though a lot of gamers, myself included, hates the Windows OS and would love to have MacOS/Apple notebooks over any Windows ones. I have the last of the intel-based MacBook Pro 17, paid a premium when it came out in 2011 and it was absolutely the best machine I had back then, because it can dual boot OSX and Windows. Then Apple ditched Intel and ever since then I have no choice but to only go for native Windows machines. All of all this is being forced to us gamers by the decisions that Apple made, none of it was because of our choice
@@kenhew4641 Got it.
Since the architecture of how the operating system handles întrerupt and not to count that on windows you will have windows defender so in order to be a fair test install a Antivirus with a resident shield on
The Surface sounds and looks better in the webcam test
I recently got an M2 MacBook Air and now I can show of to my friend who has a surface laptop 4 😂
Everytime Max Tech does a Macbook vs Windows laptop video, it's always the same thing.
I must be living in a loop
This wasn’t even a competition
Test amd laptop with 6800u they are good in cpu and GPU department