The $1500 Dell XPS 15 vs. the $1500 MacBook Pro 13

Onkel Neal · 05-12-16, 07:48 AM

I have the XPS 15, and it is amazing. It's like the power of a desktop, but in a light thin laptop. It's good for games and work.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/30610...ok-pro-13.html

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The fans have spoken. It wasn’t enough last year for me to compare Microsoft’s Surface Book to Apple’s MacBook Pro 13. Silly me, I figured a dual-core 13-inch laptop should go up against a dual-core 13-inch laptop. But nooooo, fans cried: For this to be a “fair fight,” I should have pitted the Surface Book against a MacBook Pro 15.

Normally, comparing the 4.5-pound, 15-inch, quad-core MacBook Pro 15 to the 3.3-pound, 13-inch, dual-core Surface Book would be just the sort of Apple-to-orange mismatch I’d never consider. But the fans argued the price was the thing—comparing a loaded-up, $2,699 Surface Book to a top-of-the-line, $2,700 MacBook Pro 15 was “truly fair.”

Well OK then, fans: You want it, you got it. Let’s ignore form factor and focus on price and performance, and see what happens.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a current MacBook Pro 15 to put up against a Surface Book, so I decided to do the next best thing: Put a $1,500 Dell XPS 15 (config here in Dell’s store) up against a $1,500 MacBook Pro 13 (here’s the config in the Apple store).

Same price. Same everything? Hardly. Read on to see just what you get for the money.

Rockin Robbins · 05-12-16, 01:05 PM

And it's what is to be expected. Dollar for dollar Apple can't hold a candle to PC architecture. For Apple you are paying a premium price for the coolness of being in an Apple guilded cage. There are advantages to that, but velue is not one of them.

Onkel Neal · 05-23-16, 03:16 PM

Yes, that's true, plus Apple is a boutique brand where the user feels better using it as opposed to PC. Just watch any film or TV show, 96% of the time the laptops they show have the illuminated Apple logo.

I'm not saying Apple isn't really good stuff, but I don't think the MacBook Pro can hold a candle to the new Dell XPS's.

One thing for sure, since I started relying on a laptop all the time, it really was a step up from my old Dell budget laptop to this XPS15. Like going from a Big Wheel to a Corvette,

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