Microsoft, in a latest promotional video, is encouraging customers to get the Surface Pro 7 over Apple’s new M1-powered MacEbook Pro gadgets. Why, you ask? Well, as per Microsoft, it’s “the better choice”.
So, the Redmond-based software program big, after shedding to Sony with its next-gen gaming console, has now launched an advert dubbed “Microsoft Surface Pro 7: The Better Choice” on YouTube. In the advert, a child compares the Surface Pro 7 with a high-end MacEbook Pro side-by-side.
As per the child within the video, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7 comes with a pen and full-area touchscreen, whereas Apple solely affords a “little bar” on its system. Moving ahead, the advert highlights the truth that the Surface Pro 7 has a removable keyboard and might primarily develop into a pill on-demand. The MacEbook Pro, then again, comes as one single system with a non-detachable keyboard. As a consequence, “you are kind of stuck with what you got”.
Now, it’s shocking to see that Microsoft targeted on the bodily side extra fairly than going into the tech-specs of the gadgets. Other than claiming that the Surface Pro 7 “has the power to run all your apps” and touting it as a “much better gaming device” than the MacEbook, there may be little details about the internals of each gadgets.
However, we now have already seen the facility and efficiency of the newest M1-powered MacEbook Pro gadgets (they will even run Microsoft’s personal OS higher than the Surface gadgets). Coming to app compatibility, it’s true that the brand new M1-powered Macs include some app compatibility points as earlier apps have been designed for Intel’s x86 structure. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to at all times use Apple’s Rosetta software program to run Intel-based apps in your M1 Macs. Moreover, it’s only a matter of time till all of your favourite Mac apps begin supporting the brand new Apple silicon.
Lastly, Microsoft compares the costs of each the gadgets, and as you’ll be able to guess, Apple’s MacEbook Pro got here out because the pricier selection. The Surface Pro 7 begins from $749.99 for the 4GB RAM and 128GB storage possibility. While the beginning price of the 8GB RAM with 256GB inner storage variant of the M1 MacEbook Pro is $1,299. The prime fashions of each gadgets are equally priced at $2,299. However, at this price, Apple affords 2TB of on-board reminiscence with 16GB of unified RAM in comparison with Surface Pro 7’s 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM.
