How did Microsoft screw this up? - Surface Pro X (SQ2) vs M1 Macbook Air

Windows on Arm laptops have been out for years now - so how does Microsoft's flagship Arm device, the Surface Pro X SQ2, measure up to Apple's arm-powered M1 Macbook Air?

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Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[Coolmike]

They really did Microsoft dirty with that windows virtual machine performance comparison on the Mac.

[rossgoosen]

7:00 - Stop, stop, he’s already dead!

[BadTomzi]

Wow, crushing windows while running Windows emulated on Mac... That is some Inception grade whoop-ass.

[Nick-xcfy]

I think this is the best thing Apple have done since releasing the first iPhone.

[chrisberry]

So many missed opportunities to say "ARM's race"

[ArchtcStreams]

I’m so used to Linus bashing on Apple that it throws me off hearing him praise them so much.

[scottwhitener]

8:25 That "scrambling" is the reason why Apple is such a powerful entity. I mean, who else has that kind of pull?

[paweadamski]

"Both of them are snappy" - and The windows machine had fps drop while you said that.

[BlueRS]

Microsoft just did themselves some self-hARM

[iseptimus]

Parallels has a build that runs ARM windows even better than the one shown.

[AshiqurRahman]

If Apple's new processor gets available for generic laptops then Intel's cpu business will be gone. Not much improvement in last 10 years..

[frankthecat]

Got the M1 MBA the day it went onsale. Absolutely love it. After years of inflated claims by Apple about performance this one actually lives up to and in some ways surpasses those claims. Pretty great. MY first Mac since the iMac G5.

[PabloNeirotti]

Never imagined that I'd hear of a MacBook Air leaving anything bleeding and unconscious for cheaper.

[Lennyp]

“one heck of an arm wrestle” HAA what a dad

[dkijc]

running windows vm in a mac always felt pretty smooth.

[himynameissam]

I still think it's crazy that we are seeing this type of performance from M1, their low-end "budget" chip. What's going to happen once we see their Pro-level chips? Gonna be an interesting next few years in the CPU space that's for sure.

[bluesrike]

Linus: "Nice one, Microsoft! And my condolences, Intel."

Oof, did not see that one coming.

[gocyetisp]

The giggle in the background when he mentions the teleprompter is priceless

[kanjuicy]

_"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."_
- Alan Kay

[TenantRepGuru]

Thank you for producing this. I have the Surface X and think Microsoft ripped everyone off on it. No 64bit. You can't even run a native copy of DropBox. It's a scam.