Microsoft yesterday shared a new ad on YouTube titled ‘Microsoft Surface Pro 7: The Better Choice’, in which the company compares its tablet to Apple’s 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro, as seen by MSPoweruser.
The ad highlights the Surface Pro 7’s touch screen and features stylus as opposed to just a ‘small bar’ (the Touch Bar) on the MacBook Pro. Other benefits 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.
Results loaded 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. In addition, the Intel Core i5-equipped Surface Pro 7 with 8 GB of RAM has single-core and multi-core points of 1,210 and 4,079, respectively. By comparison, the M1 chip running on a 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8 GB of unified memory outperformed both Surface models with single-core and multi-core points of 1,735 and 7686, respectively.
The 12.3-inch Surface Pro 7 starts at $ 749.99 with 128 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM and rises to $ 2,299.99 with 1 TB of storage and 16 GB of RAM. By comparison, the current 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro starts at $ 1,299 with 256 GB of memory and 8 GB of memory, increasing it to $ 2,299 for 2 TB of storage and 16 GB of memory.
Microsoft has long positioned its Surface devices as an ideal combination of a tablet and computer experience. In recent years, Microsoft has launched several ads promoting its Surface series across Apple’s MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iPad series.