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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.
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Touch screens on laptops have a great "wow" factor but their real world usage is limited
Not true. I use the touchscreen on my Pixel all the time. Occasionally when using my work laptop (it's normally plugged into a docking station) I paw helplessly at the screen like a hapless dog trying to use the internet, before I remember it's not touchscreen.
My finger is my default way to scroll up and down webpages and I tend to use the touchscreen for a lot of navigation, pressing buttons etc. because it's faster and easier. I hardly use the trackpad (which is a good one).
For me, the Pixel's touch screen plus excellent keyboard is the best laptop/tablet form factor going. Non touchscreen laptops just seem daft now...
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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.