For some time now, portable Macs, powered by Apple Silicon, have ruled the roost. There are faster chips out there, even faster than the Ultra versions of the M-series chips, but Apple’s have one key advantage: they can be extremely fast without destroying battery life or generating incredible levels of heat. But there could be new competition on the way.
Qualcomm is the company that Apple has been desperately trying to get rid of for years. It is the company that makes the modems used in iPhones and iPads and it is believed that Apple is working on its modem so that it can have more control over its products. But as Qualcomm prepares to lose Apple’s clientele, it is preparing to compete with it in new areas.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Now, a machine running a Snapdragon And an old adversary of Apple’s is also involved.
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The benchmark figures were shared by Windows Latest and appear to be for what many believe to be a rebranded Microsoft Surface Laptop 6. The benchmark results show an OEMBR OEMBR laptop, but it is believed that this is simply Microsoft’s way of hiding which machine is being tested.
All of that is interesting in itself, but the most notable point of this news is the benchmark scores. Running Windows 11, the Surface Laptop 6 scores around 1730 in single-core tests and around 13900 in multi-core tests. Both scores are respectable, especially when compared to Apple’s M3 Pro.
To put the numbers in perspective, a 14-inch M3 Pro MacBook Pro scores 3,125 in single-core tests and 15,124 in multi-core tests, while the larger 16-inch MacBook Pro achieves almost identical scores. , as expected.
Other notable specs of this new Surface Laptop 6 include 16GB of RAM and the fact that the Snapdragon X Elite has a 12-core configuration.
The Snapdragon This mimics Apple’s experience across all MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines and should be a concern for Intel and its shareholders. The company has a stranglehold on server-side silicon, but its place in laptops continues to come under fire, especially on machines where balancing performance and battery life is important. For machines that spend all their time plugged in and can consume as much power as they want, the conversation may be slightly different.
Microsoft isn’t expected to announce the Surface Laptop yet, but we’re told it’s likely to debut in September or October. It will be very interesting to see how this laptop performs in the real world and we can also expect a lot of comparisons between it and Apple laptops.
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