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

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.

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.

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, :rock::rock::rock: