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Microsoft Touts Surface Pro 7 as 'The Better Choice' Over MacBook Pro in New Ad

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Microsoft yesterday shared a new ad on YouTube titled "Microsoft Surface Pro 7: The Better Choice," in which the company compares its tablet computer to Apple's 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro, as spotted by MSPoweruser.


The ad highlights the Surface Pro 7's touchscreen and included stylus as opposed to only a "little bar" (the Touch Bar) on the MacBook Pro. Other advantages of the Surface Pro 7 mentioned in the ad include the detachable keyboard, a cheaper price, and the claim that the tablet is "a much better gaming device" than the MacBook Pro.

Results uploaded on Geekbench show that the Intel Core i3-equipped Surface Pro 7 with 4GB of RAM has single-core and multi-core scores of 769 and 1,851, respectively. Additionally, the Intel Core i5-equipped Surface Pro 7 with 8GB of RAM has single-core and multi-core scores of 1,210 and 4,079, respectively. By comparison, the ‌M1‌ chip running on a 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8GB of unified memory achieved greater performance than both Surface models with single-core and multi-core scores of 1,735 and 7,686, respectively.

The 12.3-inch Surface Pro 7 starts at $749.99 with 128GB of storage and 4GB of RAM and increases to $2,299.99 with 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM. In comparison, the current 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro starts at $1,299 with 256GB of storage and 8GB of unified memory and increases to $2,299 for 2TB of storage and 16GB of unified memory.

Microsoft has long positioned its Surface devices as an ideal combination of both a tablet and computer experience. In years past, Microsoft has released several ads promoting its Surface lineup over Apple's MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iPad lineup.

Article Link: Microsoft Touts Surface Pro 7 as 'The Better Choice' Over MacBook Pro in New Ad
 
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This ad falls apart like a house of cards.

Yeah, you don’t get touch on an MBP. You also don’t get a detachable keyboard, because it’s not that kind of device (is their point that the Surface Laptop is a bad device?).

But then they bring up the price. At that price, the Surface Pro 7 includes neither the pen nor any keyboard, and its specs are very poor.

Why didn’t they simply compare it with the iPad Pro? It makes much more sense that way, and they could tout that it runs Windows apps and games (though you can’t convince me that there’s much of a market of college kids who want to run games on a Windows tablet. It’s an awkward compromise).
 
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Surface had so much potential to be very competitive with the iPad/Macbook early in it's life but Microsoft couldnt keep it together when developing Windows 10 for tablets and innovations in the lineup have come to a screeching halt since the Surface Pro 4.

Saying this as someone who purchased a first gen Surface Pro and loved it dearly for it's wacom pen support especially, doing art/animation work with REAL Photoshop/Flash in such a portable package was such a novelty. They got too cocky for some reason and Apple beat them at their own game in the end.
 
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Seanm87 said:
Incredibly insecure.

There’s a reason Apple doesn’t do this crap.
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What? Apple's marketing does this all the time in both the computer and smartphone businesses.

I remember last year when they compared their overpriced monitor to a professional monitor only to be later trashed in side by side comparisons... some defended the price difference ($6000 vs $44000) but it was Apple itself who made the comparison during the keynote.

By the way, there are many reasons why a PC is a better purchase, especially for professional Engineers and gamers. Macs have a edge on content creation.
 
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The only thing I’m envious of is pen support—not touch and not the detachable keyboard (I prefer convertible). Oh and it has the applications I need, but that will even out eventually, and until then I’ll stick with my Intel Mac laptop.

The kickstand would be cool for the iPad Pro maybe.
 
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mi7chy said:
Get the new Surface Pro 7+ instead since it has larger battery, user upgradable SSD and optional WWAN. Hopefully Costco will soon carry it since it's targeted at business and education accounts.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-pro-7-plus
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Please do yourself a favor and follow your own link:

4) Hard drive is not user removable. Hard drive is only removable by skilled technician following Microsoft provided instructions.

Also it only says that the ssd is "removable" (for data security reasons) not replaceable.
 
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well, it's an ... ad ... the worst part of the Surface is that it runs Windows ...
And I bet, if it had an Arm chip and were running Arm Windows (and Arm windows were available stand-alone) - MR would see very different reactions :)
 
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