Microsoft claims Snapdragon X Elite PCs like Surface Pro 10 will beat M3 MacBook Air and have 'faster app emulation than Rosetta 2

[Windows Central]

Microsoft is expected to announce its Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 next month, both of which are powered by Snapdragon X Elite ARM processors. Internal documents from the company show high praise for those chips and ARM-based computing.

Microsoft claims Snapdragon X Elite PCs like Surface Pro 10 will beat M3 MacBook Air and have 'faster app emulation than Rosetta 2 : Read more

 

[naddy69]

But since the X Elite has 12 cores and the M3 in the MacBook Air has 8, this is like bragging that a 12 core i7 is faster than an 8 core i7.

IOW, so what?

AGAIN, why aren't they comparing to the 12 core M3 in the MacBook Pro?