Aug 24, 2022 23:00:00

Reported that MacBook Air running Windows 11 outperformed XPS 13 Plus, which is more than 30,000 yen higher

It was reported that the M2-equipped MacBook Air running Windows 11 using the virtualization software '

Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac ' exceeded Dell's XPS 13 Plus in the benchmark test.

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The PC prepared by Vadim Yuryev of YouTube channel Max Tech is MacBook Air of $ 1599 (about 218,000 yen) and XPS 13 Plus of $ 1849 (about 252,000 yen). Both configurations are 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. I ran Windows on the MacBook Air using the virtualization software Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac.

When Yuryev conducted a test using the benchmark software '

Geekbench 5 ', the single-core MacBook Air scored 1681 points, the XPS 13 Plus scored 1182 points, the multi-core MacBook Air scored 7260 points, and the XPS 13 Plus scored 5476 points. It seems that the MacBook Air scored better in both tests.

Considering that the internal chip consumes a lot of power, when the power adapter was connected to the PC and the test was performed again, the XPS 13 Plus resulted in 1548 points for single core and 8103 points for multicore. The result is slightly higher than the MacBook Air. Yuryev said, 'It's crazy that we kept the scores almost even.' Furthermore, Yuryev evaluates that 'the XPS 13 Plus chip consumes a lot of power and the battery life is not long.'

Furthermore, even when I tried it with

Speedometer , which measures the response speed of web applications, the MacBook Air gave better results ...

Yuryev reports that the MacBook Air was superior even after verifying the operating speed with two software, 'DaVinci Resolve 17' and 'Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic'.