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Make sense, I was checking up the Surface and they look not only really good, but seemed to be, how do I put it? on trend I guess.
Apple looking a little behind not having a touchscreen laptop, or made a massive change in the iPad.
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IMO all it is is a trend... people love knocking Apple and the new MacBook. I'm pretty sure I will end up buying one because comparing it to the Surface book and the Dell thing, even when I didn't wan't to choose it, it was the best option. Build quality far surpasses the other two, the Microsoft thing look nice in pics but the keyboards feel cheap in real life, same with the Dells "Carbon".
Specs wise, which is another area where the MacBook as received a lot of flack, and I may not be 100% correct, but they all use the same i7-6700HQ (the top end models) CPU. The Radeon Pro 460 is on par with a GTX 950 Desktop or a 960/965m Mobile, which are the GPU's the Dell and the Microsoft come with (Dell might be getting an upgrade to a 1050 I think?).
Price wise, they are not worlds apart either once you spec them all up, maybe a few hundred quid or so, but once you are over 2k who's really counting the coppers right?
Touch screens on laptops have a great "wow" factor but their real world usage is limited, whereas the touch bar is surprisingly practical, although when I first saw it I thought is was bollocks.
chrisbmx116
I was in a meeting yesterday with a big agency and a bunch of wankers talking about 'decks'. Every single person there had a surface / surface book / surface something. Except me with my 2015 13" mbp :(