Power to Allegedly Beat Apple and the MacBook Air
Microsoft came out taking big swings at its biggest competitor, Apple. The new so-called “AI PCs” are being directly compared in performance and AI capability to the MacBook Air with M3. Microsoft has claimed its new PCs with these new chips outperform the base M3 by 50% on Cinebench tests or 16% better performance in Geekbench 6 multicore settings.
I’ve seen the Snapdragon X Elite in action, but we still want to do our own tests to confirm all of what Microsoft claims. Still, the intent is obvious. Microsoft wants to dethrone Apple for light PC performance. The question is whether all the AI will make for a more cumbersome, bloated experience than Mac or what Windows used to feel like.
