![]() ![]() The first is a seriously hopped-up MacBook Air 13. What you get for $1,500Īs we move into the $1,500 price range, it’s now rich enough that Apple has two entrants. IDGĪt $1,300, all of the laptops involved really hit their tipping point of usability and features but the Dell has the fastest CPU and the HP gives you double the amount of RAM and storage. Don’t forget its convertible capability and included active pen. HP doesn’t just give up, though, and it again gives you the most value with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. This means the XPS 13 is almost certainly the fastest laptop at this price. Besides a higher boost speed of 3.8GHz, the XPS 13 also features the much faster Intel Iris Plus 640 graphics core. While the MacBook Air and Surface Laptop give you Core i5 performance, Dell’s XPS 13 features a much faster Core i7-7560U. Unfortunately for the Surface Laptop, the PC OEMs pack in the features, too. In storage and RAM it’s on a par with the slightly cheaper MacBook Air 13 while still giving you a much better screen and a faster CPU, as well as Windows Hello, pen support (although the pen itself is optional), and 10-point touch. The Dell XPS 13 should be among the fastest here (and likely as fast as the Surface Laptop), while the Spectre x360 will be the slowest of the Kaby Lake laptops.Īt this price, the Surface Laptop also really moves into a comfort zone. I know this because I’ve tested three generations of these CPUs. On paper, the Surface Laptop’s performance could be easily 20 percent faster than the MacBook Air on CPU-intensive tasks. It is running a two-generation retrograde CPU at this point, and it has the lowest maximum clock speed. On the performance front, the slowest is likely to be the MacBook Air. For general use such as browsing and running Office, you can get by if you have a fast drive behind it. It’s still not optimal, though, and if you like to run a ton of apps and spawn dozens and dozens of browser windows, you’ll want more RAM. Of the four laptops here, the Surface Laptop’s the only one with 4GB of RAM. You can easily see what Microsoft did to hit the $999 price. You can’t get fancy materials and features unless corners are cut. For a luxury laptop, however, it’s also almost too cheap. What does the Surface Laptop offer when compared to a MacBook Pro 13? What you get for $1,000Ī thousand bucks is the entry level price for a “luxury” laptop, the point where you can wriggle free of thick, ugly plastic and enjoy plusher materials like aluminum and carbon fiber. At the same time, most of the other laptops here aren’t slouches either. At 14.5 hours per Microsoft, it’ll likely set the bar for run time. One Surface Laptop mystery, until independently verified, is battery life. ![]()
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