Posted on 10/22/2015 9:53:06 AM PDT by dayglored
Of course we had to pit the Surface Book vs. the MacBook Pro. It’s like Ford vs. Chevy, or Coke vs. Pepsi. Each side has its diehard fans, plus others who just want to know which is better.
Microsoft claims its new Surface Book is “twice” as fast as its equivalent MacBook Pro. Well, we ran some benchmarks, and hate to say it, but Microsoft lied. The Surface Book isn’t twice as fast.
It’s three times as fast. Read on for the details.
What Microsoft meant
First, let’s clarify what Microsoft meant when it said the Surface Book would smoke the MacBook Pro. The company specifically means the MacBook Pro 13 inch model. That’s a very important distinction, because the MacBook Pro 15 is a different class of laptop. It’s larger, heavier, and packs a quad-core CPU and fairly beefy AMD discrete graphics. For Microsoft to say the Surface Book out performed the MacBook Pro 15 would be absurd. It would be like Apple saying the MacBook Pro 15 outperforms, oh, an MSI GT 80 Titan SLI laptop in gaming. So the target for the Surface Book is the MacBook Pro 13. Microsoft even compares the two directly in its reviewers guide.
How I tested
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(Lots and lots of detail at the source...)
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I quoted the article, I didn’t say it was true. That’s the point they made at the end.
You're speaking of discrete graphics.
The point I was making is that the article was claiming the Microsoft Surface Book at $1500 had the GPU but it does not. To get the GPU costs $200 more at $1699. The $1499 has essentially the same type of integrated graphics as the $1299 MacBook Pro has. . .
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