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$2700
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MGXC2L... is $2500. The ASUS has a higher resolution screen and a newer graphics card.
Sadly I can't get too interested in a machine like this. What I want in a work machine is the following: 1) 16GB RAM (or more) 2) High density display 3) SSD drive 4) Quad core or better CPU 5) Small and thin 6) Discrete NVIDIA GPU (not the Intel integrated crap) Apple's MBP is the only machine I know of that fits this bill. I'm becoming less and less a fan of OSX, but you can't argue against the hardware. Can anyone…
Only Apple's top end machines ship with a Nvidia card now and in my experience those same machines have quite serious overheating problems. Thinkpad's T series fits some of your bill but I doubt the screen is high density enough. PS - I must be the only person on earth who thinks the user experience with 1080p is better than super-high resolution. Currently most operating systems (Windows, Linux, and OS X to a degree…
Devil's advocate time! What's to keep Dell from heavily customizing and releasing / packaging a version of Ubuntu in the same vein that apple customized, released, packaged nextstep as OS X? The only thing I can think of would be "talent at the company". And I know next to nothing about the internals of dell, let alone what they've done since being repurchased and privatized. Kind of a fun thought, even if it's a lit…
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http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MGXC2L... is $2500. The ASUS has a higher resolution screen and a newer graphics card.
I just put it there for people to see without searching for it. Also, even at 2500, its $200 cheaper for a product thats proven itself to be solid hardware many times. asus is good, but i am not yet sure they are as good as apple hardware, esp. longevity
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Only Apple's top end machines ship with a Nvidia card now and in my experience those same machines have quite serious overheating problems. Thinkpad's T series fits some of your bill but I doubt the screen is high density enough. PS - I must be the only person on earth who thinks the user experience with 1080p is better than super-high resolution. Currently most operating systems (Windows, Linux, and OS X to a degree…
i have had one since 2010, never had heat issues
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i have had one since 2010, never had heat issues
Apple has "thinned" the MBP line several times since then. I had a 2014 Nvidia model and it over-heated like crazy, in particular in Windows.
maybe its windows compatibility issue
To ask those complaining about 8gb not being enough... Please name one thing that won't allow you to do which is crucial in your day to day workflow. I'm not saying i don't believe you, I'm just genuinely curious. Edit: Looking at this thread, I have to say there has to be a cause and effect here somewhere. You have a million web-developers saying they need more than 8GB to use Chrome to surf web-pages and web-apps.…
As a consultant I need to be able to travel and won't always have access, or be able to send code across the internet.
I think my case is common for technical consultants doing deep code inspection.
To ask those complaining about 8gb not being enough... Please name one thing that won't allow you to do which is crucial in your day to day workflow. I'm not saying i don't believe you, I'm just genuinely curious. Edit: Looking at this thread, I have to say there has to be a cause and effect here somewhere. You have a million web-developers saying they need more than 8GB to use Chrome to surf web-pages and web-apps.…
Run an OS X VM in order to illicitly develop iOS apps. Run a Windows 8 VM to work on legit Windows apps. Run both VM's at the same time. Anything under 16 GB is unacceptable to me. Developer edition? Nope, not really. I need Linux, Windows and OS X. So my only option remains, as ever, a macbook pro with 16GB RAM.
Because you've set very high requirements, as you've stated.
> Developer edition? Nope, not really.
Yes, it still is.
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How exactly this resemble a Macbook in any way ? It is not unibody, it is not aluminum, the screen is basically without bezel. This is the first non-Apple ultrabook that is genuinely interesting to me, design wise.
From the link: Machined aluminum construction means the XPS 13 is precision-cut from a single block of aluminum for a sturdy, durable chassis. The keyboard picture there... http://i.dell.com/sites/imagecontent/products/PublishingImag... ...also looks very similar to that of the old plastic-bodied black Macbook: http://old.javconcepts.com/modules/blog/media/4/keyboard.jpg
It still does not look anything like a (recent) Macbook, imho.