Microsoft yesterday shared a new ad on YouTube entitled “Microsoft Surface Pro 7: The Better Choice”, in which the company compares its tablet computer to Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro M1, as seen by MSPoweruser.
The ad highlights the Surface Pro 7’s touchscreen and includes the stylus, rather than just a “small bar” (the touch bar) on the MacBook Pro. Other advantages of the Surface Pro 7 mentioned in the ad include the removable keyboard, a cheaper price and the claim that the tablet is “a much better gaming device” than the MacBook Pro.
The results uploaded to Geekbench show that the Surface Pro 7 equipped with Intel Core i3 with 4 GB of RAM has single and multiple core scores of 769 and 1,851, respectively. In addition, the Surface Pro 7 equipped with Intel Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM has single-core and multiple-core scores of 1,210 and 4,079, respectively. In comparison, the M1 chip running on a 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8 GB of unified memory achieved higher performance than both Surface models with single and multi-core scores of 1,735 and 7,686, respectively.
The 12.3-inch Surface Pro 7 starts at $ 749.99 with 128 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM and increases to $ 2,299.99 with 1 TB of storage and 16 GB of RAM. In comparison, the current 13-inch MacBook Pro M1 starts at $ 1,299 with 256 GB of storage and 8 GB of unified memory and increases to $ 2,299 for 2 TB of storage and 16 GB of unified memory.
Microsoft has long positioned its Surface devices as an ideal tablet and computer combination. In recent years, Microsoft has launched several ads promoting its Surface line over the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Apple iPad line.