Surface Laptop 5 vs M2 MacBook Air - Better than a Mac?

Should you Buy a Surface Laptop 5 instead of a MacBook? See for yourself!

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Timestamps ⬇️
Surface Laptop 5 vs M2 MBA - 00:00
Thunderbolt Transfer Speed - 00:32
SSD Storage Speed Test - 01:23
Speedometer 2.0 Web Browsing - 01:34
Geekbench 5 CPU - 01:51
Vulkan/Metal Graphics - 02:22
Cinebench R23 & Thermals - 03:47
Speaker Comparison - 05:24
Webcam & Microphones - 06:00
3DMark Gaming Test - 06:30
Blender 3D Rendering - 06:57
Lightroom Photo Editing - 07:43
DR18 4K Video Editing - 08:31
Display Differences - 09:39
Design Differences - 10:29
Battery Life Comparison Test - 11:24
Which One Should YOU Buy? - 12:02

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[PerplexedPhoton]

I love how a few years ago Apple was getting absolutely torched for making smoking hot laptops because Intel hadn't figured out a way to make a powerful yet efficient chip. So Apple said screw it, we'll do it ourselves and now we have some of the best laptops ever, which is making other companies revise their strategy and pick up the pace.

[julioguidotti]

I love how the surface is being praised for only being 17% worse than the macbook air🤣

[PaulPlay]

I switched from a Surface Laptop 3 because it sometimes became laggy and the display's response time is extremely bad. However, my biggest issue with it was the reflectivity of the display. Using it during the day is terrible, especially when your setup is near a window. I could see myself in the screen of my notebook and it was quite distracting.

[snipa]

WOW. Max Tech never disappoints, I was literally looking for this comparison last night.

[squintinel]

I want to like the SL5. The exterior looks absolutely amazing, but with results like these, I am questioning why they are charging nearly the same as a MacBook Pro.

[jmorales]

I got my MBA M2 last month, as an traveling engineer I do not regret it!

[xelfect]

Sadly, most main apps that I use are only native to windows... that's why I'm still sticking to my surface

[Streamlined]

So in a nutshell, the Surface finally caught up to last years M1 MacBook Air.

[mihaigeorgeful]

At the end the Surface was just too embarrassed and decided to shut down 😅

[a.a.]

I purchased a Macbook Pro 16. I was very pleased with its performance. I did not hear any fan noise since I purchased it. The battery lasts over 12 hours even with Youtube. The touch pad is perfect. I am planning to buy a 14 m2 pro after they release them.

[FB-qpeo]

At my uni we have liked the Surface, but the graphics chip gets so hot that they tend to die within 3 years. I'm on my second one and am making sure to back up every week. A Mac will last way longer.

[urbaneplanner]

Interesting comparison - I actually have a Macbook for personal use and a surface for work so I often compare the two - I like the surface well enough but to me there’s no question that I prefer the Mac. As noted in this video, there’s no comparison in terms of the trackpad, which I think is a big deal. The Mac OS does have some issues imo so not perfect but still superior I’d agree

[Nicolas-nlgp]

Even if the Intel can come close in performance, the ending says it all. The “Intel is catching up” line only applies when you don’t look at efficiency. I’d rather have slightly worse performance for more battery life and the fact that the Surface has neither is a big L. It’s good if you need windows I guess.

[jacobramey]

I have a surface right now. Battery Life is ok for just general tasks like browsing the internet, or doing some basic document work. Anything above that and this things battery dives like a brick. It gets so uncomfortably hot on the bottom even with the fans running (they're always running) that I usually cant have it in my lap. Honestly Surface is the biggest scam in the laptop space right now. For the price you can get so much more weather you go with Windows or Mac.

[mr.dude]

Bro the bezels on Microsoft 😂😂it looks like it’s from the year 2015

[refc]

Microsoft NEEDS to move away from Intel to have ANY fighting chance. Try AMD or look into in-house arm design.

[Taranbeer]

Intel still isn't as good of a deal with that heavy TDP. M2 Air will be better of compared to ASUS Zenbook S13 OLED with Ryzen 6800U as it is in the same price bracket and better power to performance when compared to Intel 12th Gen.

[shaunpugh]

I love what Apple have shown the industry here in terms of moving us all away from x86 and to more efficient computing - I've been running an M1 Air for over a year and it's the best computer I've had in a very long time. The 2023 Windows dev kit (see volterra) contains an ARM-based computer a bit like the Mac Mini that appeared in the Apple dev kit before M1 was released. Microsoft, Intel and AMD are all getting ready for ARM. Intel hasn't really caught up with Apple in terms of efficiency but I'm sure I've seen some Intel benchmarks that show 12th Gen i9's been super quick, but running hot enough to melt the sun at the same time. I'm exaggerating there, but you get the idea - Intel can do quick, but not efficient right now. With MS trying to get developers to move to ARM I honestly think x86 won't be in most mainstream computers within the next 2-3 years. Intel, ARM and a host of others (Qualcomm) will all have their branding all over laptops with their flavour of ARM, where ARM will be the latest thing in PC World, and all the other shops that non-techies buy their gear from.

[AyaWetts]

Macs are nice hardware wise with those new chips... just wish they could actually do things I want to do. I really only want to run Linux, and be able to run most Linux software and games, including Windows games. That all works fine on a good intel or AMD cpu laptop... its pretty much impossible on a Mac.

[DavidAlsh]

I laughed on the speedometer test where the surface got a score just over half the score of the MBA and dude man was like "The MBA is 75% faster!" - yeah....

The MBA is undeniably better in every way - except you can't do anything with MacOS and Apple refuse to add features to MacOS or the Apple Silicon platform which make it useful. Sadly, I used my MBP for professional workloads and I had to sell it because, despite being incredible hardware, I just couldn't do anything on it. It was also the first time I needed to carry a second laptop with me when I travelled because the MBP was so severely limited.

Sold my MBP and now I am looking for alternatives. Every single PC laptop is garbage compared to the MBP but you just can't do anything with it!