The Best Laptop to Buy Instead of the New MacBook Pro 

nope im still on my 2015 one and i haunt upgrade but its just snappy and fine for me...Also i would find it hard to leave mac since i just LOVE the OS even though I've used windows for most of my life.

Dave Lee can you please make the best ultrabooks/ portable laptops of 2016?

Dave Lee i want a laptop but i cant afford one

Dave Lee I did

I have a mid 2014 15" rMBP, at the time it was an obvious choice for me, but if I was buying again today, I'd probably be tempted by the XPS 15, now that the update with a 1050 was leaked.

HashTagHeelGFX That was last year tho

HashTagHeelGFX 20 k lol

Yeah, he makes great videos. He's probably one of the more underrated tech RU-vidrs.

HashTagHeelGFX AJ STYLES PROFILE PIC, sub to me for WWE 2K17 gameplay :)

Actually that's way too low for a channel with this high a content quality. I have no idea why the sub count is so low, he's literally the best laptop reviewer I've seen on RU-vid (better than Linus, even better than Jonathan).

Ash Tailor ur the dude with the excellent videography skills.

Looked at the MSI too. Checked it out at best buy, pretty durable feel. However, I read that a lot of people were getting 2 -3hr battery life, so am choosing between aero and razer blade.

PartnersInCrimeGFX I mean, if I could, I'd immediately go for the blade due to its design. There's no competition. The XPS refresh is also another great one I'm waiting for 👌

Tom X Ah, thanks dude. 😁

Xps 15 leaked it's same design with gtx 1050 and i7 7700hq which is 200mhz faster, gtx 1050 is only slightly faster than gtx 960m if you could get a deal on xps 15 previous year, you can go for that.

TechAltar When will it be released because I heard about it and I'm waiting on it too

TechAltar no bro 1050 is sucks 1060 is better! 7th intel + 1060 = cheap but win!

xXx_MlgTr1kSh00ter _Xx Some people want battery life, so in that case 1050 is better

I think that it's too small to handle a 1060.

1050 definitely will be a massive improvement over the 960m. If only we can fit a 1060 into it with the same thickness :D

Mahatma Gönn Dir Do you have the 9550 or the 9560 Model?

Dave says in this review it has unquestionably the best keyboard, trackpad, speakers, CPU performance, and build quality, and brightest display (of second highest accuracy). Which are generally the most important aspects of a laptop. But a shitty price and battery life compared to last year's, and at the top of the line AMD"s GPU only reaches what Nvidia was doing a year ago, which is very weak compared to the 1060. So like nuance.

"Dave says in this review it has unquestionably the best keyboard, trackpad, speakers, CPU performance, and build quality, and brightest display (of second highest accuracy)." ... and you believe it. :D Built quality is fit and finish. I bet he did not measure it. ;) "Which are generally the most important aspects of a laptop." I call that bullshit and claim it is number of IO ports, price to performance ratio and in general, integral quality. "So like nuance" So kiss my ass and don't try to prescripe people what their priorities are. =)

***** oh the irony

von kasteren except it was the best in everything except GPU performance

Boris Singer i can afford to buy you and your entire generation off, i dont waste money on trash, ok ? lol, "afford" a laptop...

Jericho Pedronio ikr they're so interesting

XdanielZ99 are u happy with it

Zaib Javed everyday Is a new Dave.

Zaib Javed good hygiene unlike other people

perks of having a wife ;)

how do you live so dirty

Xele Nor well yeah it's not made for gaming so don't understand why everybody is complaining about it having a bit slower processors.

Because people are dumb as fuck. Everyone thinks that a laptop with such a high price (max spec MBP 4k+$) must have the top notch high end specs such as a 1060-1080 and all that shit, but they do not realize that some people do not want to game, also macbooks with max specs have one of the best editing and rendering times out there one the market due to the fact that it uses Apple OS and not poorly optimized windows.

Amen. Unfortunately, nothing comes close to Apple, it's not even a fair comparison. Plus the OS is way superior. Yes, spec numbers are fine, but so are perfectly built computers that just work really, really well. I'm a gamer even and I wouldn't switch.

Xele Nor yeah you are right, MacBook can be the best choice for light work. But to be honest I would expect more for such an expensive laptop...

3.8k for a glorified paperweight seems way too much for me.

So which one did you get?

and 2019 xD

And 2020

@@narwhal4304 lol

and 2022

And 2023

I Finn my complaints with mine would also be the hinge, it now makes a clicking noise on the left side when I move it. also it makes that annoying coil whine sound.

Owen Gee never said anything about the hinge, it's just not easy opening it with one hand and I don't get any whining sound.

I Finn you will experience the whine soon! I returned my Skylake

Ashveen Sharma lucky you, Dell won't let me return my skylake

Owen Gee speak with customer care! I have found their customer support to be amazing tbh.

Tech-Talk-Toe Mac You mean quality control? Becauss the build quality of razer is on par with apple imo

you can if your a crazy ass tech lol who eats sleeps an breathes this.

Harry zhang I honestly think a fully speced XPS 15 off eBay would work wonders

Harry zhang Dell XPS 15, Razer Blade, or MSI Stealth Pro are excellent alternatives

last year's model if you had opted for the 2016 model.

Why the hell would you replace a year old laptop?

He's talking about the 2016 model, hence "returned".

+GrantGamz because it's double the weight and size of these laptops. It's a different class of laptop

Dave Lee but would you still recommend it to a gamer as myself

try the tornado F5 from eurocom if you want a gaming laptop. 6700k cpu + 1070 :)

that's a dual core ultrabook. . completely different class of device

Dave Lee review of the Kaby lake X360 coming at any point?

John Sanchez He made this video as replacements for 15 inch models. The latest hp spectre x360 is the best ultrabook of the year according to Dave.

He told you why less than one minute into the video.

John Sanchez fuck ultrabooks

hassan nassar My answers, just dont buy any of it.... Your wallet is the only thing with power to make them change.

ya u r still gonna pay a lot of money for old ass technology and no tb3.

Old ass technology still has the best CPU (4:28), battery life (8hr vs nearest 6.5hr), speakers (besides the 2016 MBP), and trackpad (in most people's opinion better than the 2016, 2016 is just too big). You can get one of these for $1300 used these days without giving fucking apple a cent.

it is easy to get good battery life, if you put shit shit specs inside for example look at the asus vivobook

lasse danielsen NO, you get good battery by being intelligent and using power efficient CPUs and GPUs and a power efficient OS. Putting a high end GPU on a laptop makes only sense if you just simply dont give a crap about battery performance. Otherwise you will end up building a BRICK for a laptop in order to deliver on both ends.

Big Neuton I’ve been there lol

J TheAndroidFreak final cut on mac and premier on windows

Julian Giorgilli Thanks for the feedback. Are you into video editing?

J TheAndroidFreak No he sells goats for a living..

That sarcasm was both a year late and unneeded. If you're gonna be rude, at least do it on time.

PLZZZ

Trinajskaa Macs are useful for a bunch of things, they are ridiculously expensive though.

Trinajskaa did we watch the same video? The MacBook beat all of the other laptops in every aspect except graphics. It had the best cpu, speakers, build quality, ssd, etc.

Problem is if he picked all of the pc laptops at $3,000 and over price range sure then I guarantee you would have the light functions = or better while being stupidly better on processing power. The fact that units close to 1/3 of the costs are so close to this model is ridiculous.

Buy apple stuff refurbished. They replace some key things, like the battery, so it's practically new, and you get a new warranty, as well.

Tommy Trillfiger yah they should be cheaper they are more expensive then high end gtx 1080 laptops lol

it's in there =)

***** sorry😁

A dude. he has videos on surface devices and called them the best device for college students. He doesnt have a bias against them. and the surface products are not competitors to 15 in mbp because they lack the processing power of quad core devices

The Pro 4 is competing with the 13 inch MacBook Pro instead of the 15 inch one imo, and maybe Surface Book with the performance dock can be compared with the 15 inch MBP, but personally I still feel like Surfaces are way different than other regular laptops, so it's kind of hard to do comparison.

The SB has half the CPU performance of any of these laptops, including the 15" MBP. But the 965M in the performance base is slightly more powerful than the AMD chips in the MBP 15", so it's a tough slot. In the past, dedicated graphics have been exclusive to high end CPUs and 14"+ displays.

Also the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book use dual core CPU, which place them more against MacBook Pro 13 inches.

I love his videos, but I partially agree with "A dude" here... Dismissing the Surface Book as a "college" product is inaccurate, specially since the laptop is marketed towards the professional segment.... If the Surface Pro 4 goes against the MacBook Pro 13... then the Surface Book goes against both the 13 and the 15 as an in-betweener. I recently got a first gen Surface Book, i7, 16, 512, dGPU and I am a professional creative, a Mechanical Engineer. I considered options like the ones on this video (Dell XPS, Asus UX501, etc) but ultimately decided for the less powered Surface Book because my use would required better mobility. I use it with CAD and Industrial 3D design software and even though it is a bit under-powered for large assemblies, the versatility more than makes up in my case. Clipboard mode lets me sketch and generate ideas that then will be design in detail, and the pen allows me to better communicate these ideas with people abroad. College students are generally on a budget, and the Surface Book does not fit that category (with exceptions)... It fits in the professional segment that requires a bit more flexibility than simply a workstation and have great productivity with its design. Performance is great, battery life is also great for what I do... Maybe the Surface Book would not fit in this video, but it definitely would have fit in the MacBook Pro 13 / Razer Stealth / XPS 13 comparison from weeks ago.....

How is it? I'm thinking of getting it

I have his brother... GS60..

Jezza 36 I haven't gotten it yet :3 it hasn't arrived, I guess I should've said "I just ordered one"

Siva R how are you liking it?

OH RIGHT

true, and the next one start at 0 and somehow

Aaron Wang Still poor Scaling. It makes things look larger than they should.

yea, but that's the legal limit you can take on a plane. So you want see higher, until they change that rule.

Princesses Are Awesome then you won't be able to take your laptop to a plane

Princesses Are Awesome i want a 199wh battery

Man who the hell checks if that battery is 99Wh or 110Wh? As long as there is no bomb or weed inside your laptop, it is totally fine. Lol P.S: I dont know what'sup in the US tho.

Pritish Prayag no one checks carefully, because manufactures are not dumb enough to make them over 99. Lol

not a quad core cpu

***** Microsoft touts the Surface Book as a direct rival to the Macbook Pro, but you've got a good point. Hopefully the next one will be quad-core.

Donald Trump OK Mr president

I don't think so. I'd HIGHLY suggest the Razer Blade for sure.

Prune i just prefer the thin bezels and screen quality of the xps, but the razer is awesome as well

totally agree. Those bezels are phenomenal. I just wasnt all that impressed with the xps when I used it.

It also has 8th gen i7 and DDR4 memory option which -- as example -- the MacBook Pro does not.

Lucian lol nice one !

The HP Spectre x360 comes with two thunderbolt 3

Best selection of ports, not best I/O. Running two 5k monitors is meaningless for majority of people.

That's not even true, except for corporate cucksuckers. ^^

The Msi can do that too and still has usb 3.1 ports left over. Not forgetting the sd card slot and gbit lan.

Actually no. It has only one TB3 port. Besides, the nV 1060, while overall faster, is not able to deliver 5 display streams as required for Dual 5K plus the notebook's own display.

TunerCat no way

You do not throw out gifts. Like tf is wrong with you

Sell it

Exactly man, you get it

Throw it out and into my window

David why lol?

Jason Zhou cause the design is copy or stolen. lot of windows pc looks better than macbook

i've a macbook and one of the best things it has is the design, i think that everybody would like to see windows based pc with the same or better build quality than the macbooks and once they started with ultrabooks line you say that you hate that? I was always waiting for the other brands to catch up the style thing and light with aluminum and not plastic, and when they started to do it people start hating. what do you want the old big fat plastic with horrible quality? no competition, and then allow apple to put (even) higher prices. Imagine how much would have cost the new macbook pro without a real alternative in terms on design and performance like the dell xps, surface book, asus zenbook etc. on the market.

it's not a quad core cpu

You're an idiot.

Dave Lee still beats the MacBook pro in performance tests

***** Since when?.. The quad-core CPU instantly beats the SB hands down. Unless you're using it for gaming, professional use in rendering projects require strong CPUs, and the MacBooks are way stronger than any other laptop at the moment. Just look at the comparisons to other QUAD core laptops.

It only renders faster because of proprietary software. anyway using a quad core for nominal performance increase isn't worth only having 3 hours of battery life

You can do that with Win 10 too. ^^

The new macbook pro is riddled with bugs and crashes. Just search google if you don't believe me.

Nara P I bought it and it was great. I love it

Big thing for me with Windows 10 is that it installs updates and restarts for you. I ALWAYS have work open at some point - updates absolutely cannot restart the computer and force me to lose work for the sake of "staying up to date". I realize that it's for security, but I take the time once a month to go through and update everything - it doesn't have to happen the instant the update is pushed. Afaik only the enterprise version of Windows allows for controlling updates - even the Windows 10 Pro version requires that you "trick" windows 10 by setting wifi connections as metered or using registry hacks to set ethernet connections as metered. This is unacceptable and a software practice I refuse to support even more so than mediocre refreshes. As a result I'm stubbornly hanging on to my old Mac until either company fixes the issues I have with them.

@Strix not sure where you guys are getting this problem from. I've had my Windows 10 MSI laptop for over a year. Never has it randomly restarted or made me lose my work. I restart it whenever I want it to restart.

nah yeah macbooks def have the best overall quality, just not gpu performance, but it's not supposed to so yeah

Dan Cho Are you seriously defending Apple and saying that the Macbooks are the best laptops just for the looks? For tech, performance and optimization matter more than 90%. When you're playing a game/rendering a video, you're not going to care about how good it looks.

the issue I have with the new Mac book is that I could buy a MSI gs43 phantom pro and build a desktop with an i7 1700k with GTX 1080 SLI... and the MSI gs43 is almost the same as the MacBook and has a better graphics card. the only thing I miss out on is the "premium quality"

CasuAl Pro​ funny you mention performance and optimization, since Macbook are better than Windows at that too. Have you tried rendering a video in Final Cut Pro? It does wonders. The only thing Windows does better that you mentioned is gaming, but then again, Macs are not meant for gaming.

*****​​​ Mac OS is better optimized, but as someone who works in a technical field, they don't support 80% of the software I have to use. And they cost so much for for lower specs. The only reason you don't notice the performance difference is because as you said Mac OS is optimized extremely well, but as a result isn't nearly as versitile.

Vishwas Dubey 😀