"This project was commissioned by Microsoft."
Need I say more?
If I knew nothing about either system and didn't know this was commissioned by Microsoft I'd almost think it was being done by someone looking to cut down Microsoft's stuff. It doesn't exactly present them in the best light.
The dumbest thing though is that they are promoting them as
Copilot Plus PCs and there are exactly ZERO AI related benchmarks presented! I could understand maybe it is hard finding a halfway decent crossplatform AI benchmark you could run on Surface and Macs. But they don't even run anything AI related on their own stuff. Just web browser and media player benchmarks to show battery life?! The only thing they run on Macs is Cinebench, which people who follow benchmarks are familiar with (both it and its limitations) but the average person is going to have no idea what it is. It is just a bunch of numbers, and you get lost when they inexplicably show results for TWELVE Macs.
Why run on so many more Mac models than on their own stuff? I get that they wanted to include M2 so they wouldn't get beat across the board, but it seems one each of M2, M2P, M3, M3P would have been better than testing all the screen sizes. Heck, why not test all DRAM and SSD sizes as well?? Honestly, what was that about? Like I said if I didn't know it was commissioned by Microsoft I would say it was done by someone else (like Intel or AMD) looking to cut down Qualcomm or by a Mac fanboy doing a really bad job of trying to make them look good.