Although I do not do a battery test and none of my benchmarks are on battery, I believe the Surface Laptop 5 has sufficient enough battery life to make a battery test unnecessary. The change in architecture should offer a better PPW, especially for these small, ultra-mobile form factors.

In my comparison of the Zephyrus m16 and the Apple MacBook Pro, the Zephyrus m16 with an 11 th Gen Intel Core processor and NVIDIA graphics won out in raw performance but tanked in battery life. However, Intel has changed the architecture of its 12th Gen Intel Core processors to have performance (P-cores) and efficiency (E-cores) cores.

Apple's silicon is more efficient and is based on a smaller node the M2 is based on '5nm' technology, while the 12 th Gen Core processor is based on Intel 7. I expect the Arm-based Apple Silicon to outperform the x86-based Intel Core processor and Intel Iris GPU benchmarks. Regarding performance, Microsoft says the first launch of each Office app will take longer as Rosetta 2 has to first generate optimised code for the new processor - but subsequent app launches will be ‘fast’.As I did with the other MacBook Air M2 comparison, I want to preface it with my expectations of the benchmarks and why I am comparing both systems. There’s no difference in installation or deployment methods, too. Microsoft also says all Office features - even third-party add-ins - on Intel-based Macs will run on the M1 Macs, thanks to Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation layer. Microsoft recommends the November 2020 release (build 16.43) for the ‘best experience’ because this version of Office packs the latest optimisations for the just-released macOS Big Sur. In a nutshell, the latest release of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and OneDrive will all work on the new M1-based Macs. If you’re going to buy or have already placed an order for one of Apple’s new Macs with the M1 chip and are wondering how it’d handle that Microsoft Office productivity suite that you so can’t do without, well, Microsoft has released a fairly succinct FAQ regarding compatibility. Don’t worry, your Microsoft Office apps will run fine on the new Macs powered by the M1 processor

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