How does the Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air?

Microsoft has claimed that its “Copilot Plus PCs” will be “58 percent faster” than an “M3 MacBook Air”. The Copilot Plus PC’s neural processing unit can perform 45 trillion operations per second. The machine learning-enabled Surface Laptop 7 is powered by a Snapdragon X Plus chip and has a 20-hour battery life, compared to 13 hours on an M3 MacBook Air.