The Apple MacBook Air M3 is a great 13-inch laptop with a lot going for it, including exceptional battery life. The Asus ProArt PX13 has speed on its side.
The 13-inch laptop space is full of some great machines. The size has become a bit less popular in the last couple of years, as 14-inch laptops have started to take over, but if you want the smallest laptop possible you can find one or two great options.
The MacBook Air M3 offers many more configurations. You can choose either an 8-core CPU/8-core GPU M3 chipset or opt for the version with 10 GPU cores. The laptops starts at $1,099 for the 8/8 M3 chipset, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a 13.6-inch 2560 by 664 IPS display. Upgrading to the 8/10 M3 chipset costs $100, while upgrading RAM is $200 to move to 16GB and $400 to move to 24GB. Storage can be upgraded to 2TB, at a cost of $800.
Connectivity is also better on the ProArt PX13. It has an equal number of fast ports, but then also a couple of legacy ports as well. Both laptops have proprietary power connections, in Apple’s case it’s excellent MagSafe 3. And then the ProArt PX13 also has a microSD card reader and more up-to-date wireless connectivity
In our benchmarks, the ProArt PX13 is faster in multi-core CPU performance and slower in single-core. While the M3’s GPU is faster than the AMD chipset’s Radeon graphics, the ProArt PX13 is available with two discrete GPU options, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 or the faster RTX 4060. I reviewed with the RTX 4050, and it was able to push the ProArt PX13 to faster performance in Adobe’s Premiere Pro than the MacBook Air M3 was able to achieve. The RTX 4060 version of the Asus would be even faster.
Both displays are very good, but the ProArt PX13’s is better. It will particularly please media consumers and creators.
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