Facepalm:<\/strong> It’s been nearly 20 years since Apple launched the Microsoft-mocking “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials, and the two companies continue to take shots at each other in their respective ads. The latest from the Redmond giant claims that top Copilot+ PCs are more than 50% faster than a Mac \u2013 specifically, the now-discontinued MacBook Air M3 that launched in March 2024. <\/p>\n Microsoft’s 12-second ad, which doesn’t exactly scream high-end production values, was shown on the official Windows YouTube channel. The announcer excitedly boasts that “Top Copilot+ PCs are up to 58% faster than MacBook Air with M3.” Just to ensure the point is driven home, he adds, “That’s right, faster than a Mac.”<\/p>\n As most of the comments beneath the video point out, Microsoft seems to be taking an excessive amount of pride in the best Copilot+ PCs on the market being faster than an entry-level machine launched over a year ago.<\/p>\n The disclaimer in the ad notes that the figures are based on Cinebench 2024 multi-core CPU benchmarks. It directs viewers to a website<\/a> stating that the 58%-faster claim comes from Microsoft-commissioned testing performed by Principled Technologies<\/a> conducted in May 2024 and September 2024.<\/p>\n The tests compared the M3 MacBook Air to several Copilot+ machines, including the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x and Microsoft’s own Surface Laptop, both of which are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip. They also used HP’s OmniBook Ultra 14 with AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 375.<\/p>\n Apple released the more powerful successor to the M3 MacBook Air, the M4 model, in March this year. Apple also made the latest MacBook Airs $100 cheaper than their 13- and 15-inch M3 predecessors and made 16GB of unified memory the standard.<\/p>\n Part of Microsoft’s website states that in other Cinebench 2024 benchmarks carried out in April 2025, “several” Snapdragon X devices all scored higher than the 866 achieved by Apple’s M4 10-core CPU. If you’re wondering why Microsoft would choose to boast about the Copilot+ PCs being faster than an M3 MacBook Air and not an M4, it’s because the Windows devices were only slightly faster than the newer SoC, as you can see below.<\/p>\n Laptops carrying the Copilot+ branding still only make up a small fraction of overall laptop shipments, with most consumers not sharing Microsoft’s enthusiasm for these machines. It’s unlikely that marketing campaigns like this one, comparing the top-tier Copilot+ models to a discontinued base MacBook Air, are going to increase their popularity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Facepalm: It’s been nearly 20 years since Apple launched the Microsoft-mocking “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials, and the two companies continue to take shots at each other in their respective ads. The latest from the Redmond giant claims that top Copilot+ PCs are more than 50% faster than a Mac \u2013 specifically, the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/images2\/news\/bigimage\/2024\/01\/2024-01-04-image-10-j_500.webp)
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\n <\/tr>\n \n \nDevice<\/th>\n Prozessor<\/th>\n Performance Gain Vs. M4 MacBook Air (866)<\/th>\n Cinebench 2024 Score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n ASUS Vivobook S 14<\/td>\n AMD Ryzen AI 9 365<\/td>\n 5.3%<\/td>\n 912<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dell XPS 13 9345<\/td>\n Snapdragon X Elite<\/td>\n 8.9%<\/td>\n 943.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n HP OmniBook Ultra 14<\/td>\n AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375<\/td>\n 11.4%<\/td>\n 965<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14″<\/td>\n Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite<\/td>\n 18.9%<\/td>\n 1029.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14″<\/td>\n Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite<\/td>\n 19.4%<\/td>\n 1033.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lenovo Yoga Pro 7<\/td>\n AMD Ryzen AI 9 365<\/td>\n 17.9%<\/td>\n 1021.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Microsoft Surface Laptop 15″<\/td>\n Snapdragon X Elite<\/td>\n 9.7%<\/td>\n 950<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Microsoft Surface Laptop 13.8″<\/td>\n Snapdragon X Elite<\/td>\n 2.7%<\/td>\n 889.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n