

It also benefits from the LED-backlit technology. The resolution is 2560 x 1600 pixels with up to 500 nits of brightness. The smaller of the two devices is 13.3-inches, to be precise. The MacBook Pro has two options, 13-inch and 16-inch.

The display technology is still rooted in LCD, so there’s now OLED or Mini LED.

In terms of resolution, it maxes out at 2736 x 1824 and there’s Dolby Vision HDR support. This refresh rate will be handy when scrolling through pages on the touchscreen. The Surface Pro 8 has a 13-inch touchscreen with a new 120Hz refresh rate, which is up there with Apple’s iPad Pro range. The Surface Pro 8 maxes out at the i7-1185G7 processor. A PassMark benchmark test also showed the M1 beat the Core i7-11700K CPU in single core performance. The M1 MacBook Pro is also stuck with the older Thunderbolt 3 ports.Īpple believes the M1 chip’s CPU is 2.8x faster than the 10th generation Intel chip in the other model. The most recent MacBook Pro features an 8-core M1 CPU combined with an 8-core GPU and up to 16GB of memory The max storage configuration is a 2TB SSD.

However, Apple is phasing out MacBooks running Intel processors in favour if its own Apple Silicon M1 (and future generation) chips. The Intel version of the device offers four Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports for charging, monitors and other peripherals. The current Intel configuration of the MacBook Pro offers a quad-core 2.0GHz (boosted to 3.8GHz) 10th-generation Intel Core i5 or a 2.3GHz quad-core i7 Processor (boosted to 4.1GHz). There’s also Thunderbolt 4 support That’s great news for Windows aficionados looking for an upgrade, but what about those on the other side of the operating system divide? There’ll also be an integrated Intel Xe GPU and a maximum RAM configuration of 32GB. The new Surface Pro 8 contains 11th-Gen quad-core Intel Core processor up to i7, which is 43% more powerful than the Surface Pro 7. While the new Surface Laptop Studio hybrid may be the more natural rival for the MacBook Pro M1, there’ll also be PC-fanciers casting an eye over at the higher-specced version of the new Surface Pro 8. How does it stack up to Apple’s latest MacBook Pro M1? Microsoft’s long-awaited new Surface Pro 8 is here promising a massive power boost, better screen and improved battery life.
