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Microsoft Says 'We're Faster Than a Mac' in Latest Windows PC Ad

I think I got my first MacBook around 2011 I think it was the Retina Display version. Upgraded every few years and my last one was the M3 Pro Chip I think or M2.

I recently got a Surface 7 with arm64 chip and now using this as my daily. Sure I dont have the harmony between iOS and Mac but I find myself far more productive on Windows 11 I think its a great OS along with the arm64 processor

I dont know what it is, macOS just feel so easy anymore vs Windows 11!

Although as a portable device, nothing beats MacBook Pro but on a desk with a monitor and separate keyboard + mouse is Surface 7 for me these days with Windows 11!

P.S I am not a designer or anything like that. Just speaking productivity. I do stuff with AI but have servers running in the cloud for this. So simply sharing about a Copilot+PC prospective
 
This reminds me of how Russia caught up to the US, not just in nuclear weapons but also in semiconductors (refer to Chip War, Chris Mullin). While there was certainly espionage involved, both in defense and industry, it's not entirely different from when one company recruits talent from another. Ultimately, in the realm of science and technology, it is challenging to sustain a significant lead for long, and that period is becoming increasingly shorter.

And then it's marketing & lots of subjective truths that distinguish a tech product from another.

My claim to fame is that I recreated the famous Pentium Snail commercial Apple aired back in the day in Cinema 4D for use in Apple's NAB booth. Since Cinema 4D ran on both Mac and PC, it could easily showcase the performance edge Macs had at the time. Oh, those were the days. :cool:
 
That’s right folks - you heard it right: Windows Copilot PCs are faster than a last gen cpu from Apple! Yup, we were surprised too, but we’re finally catching up to Apple*

*from a year ago
 
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raythompsontn said:
Really? I have not seen one advertisement on my W11 machine since it was assembled.
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If you're already subscribed to Office, you won't get many ads. If you aren't, they'll pester you all over the place. OneDrive especially. The main page of Settings is just a big ad for Microsoft subscriptions now.

There is also a built in setting to reduce ads. It's in Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Recommendations & Offers (Personalized Offers and Recommendations and Offers in Settings are complicated ways of saying ads)
 
My Surface Laptop Go 2 actually boots up Microsoft office applications faster than my M2 MacBook Air.

Windows 11 is quite well optimized these days. I use both Mac OS and Windows. Like both of them.
 
kitt9000 said:
I'm glad the ARM space is taking off which apple pioneered. Until the Mac is able to have a touchscreen and 5G, a mac is a no go for me, despite being an Apple fan. iPad pro 11 used for mostly media consumption given the more basic OS but nice hardware, but a surface pro 11 does more than a mac for me including always on 5G to work on the go and ability to sign documents and use apps with a full desktop OS available.
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Surface pro 11 is amazing product. I love mine. Makes iPad os look like a joke with ppl spending + $1000 on a fisher price os loool
 
CalMin said:
This a quite laughable video!

But also - it's gotten to the point that 'speed' isn't relevant for most tasks for most people who buy this class of notebook computer. Who are they trying to appeal to?
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Exactly, a top issue for most folks looking at this should be battery life. And Apple wins hands down.
 
attohs said:
If you're already subscribed to Office, you won't get many ads. If you aren't, they'll pester you all over the place. OneDrive especially. The main page of Settings is just a big ad for Microsoft subscriptions now.

There is also a built in setting to reduce ads. It's in Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Recommendations & Offers (Personalized Offers and Recommendations and Offers in Settings are complicated ways of saying ads)
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Maybe Apple is no that different from MS. Right now I have a red dot notification in the settings of my iPhone to activate the trial of Apple News+ and Apple Fitness+.

Looks like ads are working for Apple an MS.
 
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New press release where Microsoft has found that Microsoft Bob is more capable than Siri!
 
raythompsontn said:
No subscription, lifetime license for MSOffice. An older version, 2016. More than good enough.

I don’t see any ads for Office 365 or any Microsoft products on my system.
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Microsoft still pushes the "View Benefits" ad to perpetual licenses even if you disable all the ad settings. You also have to disable ads from the lockscreen, which is in a different locations of settings. Forgot about that one. You can never get rid of the OneDrive ads unless you get a volume license of Windows, and even that GP doesn't stick.

And yeah not all the ads are Microsoft ads. The start menu ads are terrible. As I stated before though, there are ways to disable a lot of the ads built into Windows 11. https://www.cnet.com/tech/who-wants-ads-in-their-windows-11-start-menu-heres-how-to-turn-them-off/

I think it's funny when Windows 11 users deny seeing ads, when it's well known the system is covered in them -- and the settings app has ways to attempt disabling them hidden all over the place.
 
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Nvidia's desktop offerings still run circles around Apple's. Looking forward to see what they come up with should they want to bring their own ARM chips to consumers.
 
Mac vs Windows PC, it's a choice of OS not performance. Very very few people would choose between these two categories of machines based on how much performance they want.
 
mr.haricot said:
In case anyone is curious both the M3 and M4 Macbook Air are doing much better than the Snapdragon on Geekbench for both single core and multi core
M3: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/11969584?baseline=11970059
M4: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/11969965?baseline=11970059
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I agree that the M3 / M4 are better with single-core scores. But there are some results that put the Snapdragon multi-core scores ahead of the M3 and very close to the M4.

Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Surface Pro, 11th Edition - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Surface Pro, 11th Edition with a Snapdragon X X1E80100 processor.
browser.geekbench.com
 
MSFT was late to the game in not requiring SSDs and allowing hard drives in minimum spec'd devices for the first year+ of the Windows 11 release. I received one of those. True, you can still upgrade to Win11 on a legacy machine with a hard drive, but you are asking for heartache. It has not improved my opinion of MSFT, though it has made me more motivated to finish work early so that I can stop using the PC and reboot it for the next day. Then I go home to my Mac and iPad: a silver lining.
 
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