If you care about having lots of ports for plugging in accessories, the new MacBook Pro is the clear winner here. Neither of these are the thinnest or lightest laptops out there, but the MacBook Pro feels noticeably lighter to hold. Microsoft’s laptop weighs around 4 pounds and comes in at 0.7 inches thick, whereas the 13-inch MacBook Pro is a bit sleeker and more bag-friendly at 3.5 pounds and 0.6 inches thick. It also supports a number of stylus options, including the robust $129 Surface Slim Pen 2 that has haptic feedback to better simulate the feel of pen and paper.īut while the Laptop Studio looks pretty attractive (and suspiciously Mac-like) for a convertible, all of that functionality comes at the cost of a significantly bulkier design. Thanks to what Microsoft calls a “Dynamic Woven Hinge,” the Laptop Studio elegantly transforms between a traditional laptop, a sturdy drawing tablet for your desk and a stand-up display for bingeing Netflix and taking notes. One of the biggest advantages the Surface Laptop Studio has over the MacBook Pro is its dynamic and touch-friendly 2-in-1 design, which makes it much more versatile than any of Apple’s computers. The Laptop Studio is more versatile, but the MacBook Pro has better ports TLDR: Get the MacBook Pro for the best overall performance for multitasking, or go with the Surface Laptop Studio for the best graphics performance for the price and slightly better battery life. Again, these numbers will vary based on your specific configuration and what you’re using each laptop for, but the Laptop Studio came out ahead in our personal use. Microsoft’s notebook lasted through eight hours and 14 minutes of continuous 4K video playback on our battery test, which beats out the six hours and 36 minutes we got from our MacBook Pro by a good margin. Neither of these laptops blew us away when it came to battery life, but the Surface Laptop Studio proved more reliable for getting through a workday on our tests.
But based on our particular test units, the MacBook Pro is the clear winner when it comes to sheer processor speed and multitasking prowess, while the Surface Laptop has the better graphics option for the price. The $1,999 14-inch MacBook Pro starts with an M1 Pro processor that comes in a few different variations based on how many performance cores you need, and can be upgraded to the even more blazing M1 Max chip. The Surface Laptop Studio starts at $1,599 with an Intel Core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM and integrated graphics, which is far more modest than the $2,699 model we tested with a faster Core i7 chip, 32GB of RAM and dedicated Nvidia RTX graphics.
It’s also worth noting that the performance of both machines will be highly dependent on how you configure them. It still more than doubled many competing laptops on this benchmark, and matched the Surface Laptop Studio’s highly playable 47 frames per second when we ran both systems through the visually rich Shadow of the Tomb Raider game with all graphical settings cranked up. That said, the MacBook Pro’s M1 Pro chip is far from a slouch in the graphics department. Microsoft’s notebook has the advantage of optional, discrete Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti graphics, which allowed it to significantly outperform the MacBook Pro (51,933 versus 36,326) on the Geekbench 5 OpenCL test that measures visual muscle. However, if you want as much graphical power as possible for visually intensive tasks (and some light gaming), the Surface Laptop Studio may be a better pick for you. While both of these machines held up great during everyday use, the MacBook Pro’s vastly more powerful CPU makes it more capable and future-proof for heavy multitasking and power-hungry apps. Apple’s laptop put up a multi-core score of 12,463, which is more than double what we got from the 11th Gen Intel Core i7-powered Laptop Studio (5,108) - and a big leap over the M1-powered 13-inch MacBook Pro (7,628). We tested the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro processor, which turned in the highest laptop scores we’ve ever seen on the Geekbench 5 general performance test. But the ridiculously fast Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max chips that power the new MacBook Pro are in a league of their own. The Surface Laptop Studio and 14-inch MacBook Pro are both absolute beasts when it comes to performance - no matter which one you buy, you’ll be treated to zippy multitasking and enough power for basic creative work at the very least.
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