It's annoying that the article (and many others) don't mention that the Snapdragon X Elite has 12 CPU cores (I believe all high-performance cores) vs. the M3's

It's annoying that the article (and many others) don't mention that the Snapdragon X Elite has 12 CPU cores (I believe all high-performance cores) vs. the M3's 8 CPU cores (4 performance, 4 efficiency). So it's not surprising that the Snapdragon wins at multi-core benchmarks. It is surprising if the Surface can really get that claimed battery life with those cores and a fan. It's only slightly heavier than the MacBook Air (2.96 vs 2.7 lbs) so there probably isn't much more battery in there. These are going to be impressive machines and we'll all hopefully benefit from some more heated competition.