Laptop Hunters : Apple MacBook vs Dell XPS 13

[turanspirit]

mac os x & ubuntu rule / windows sux ! mac hardware = pc hardware

[TokuinB]

you looked up the specs of the wrong macbook, on the commercial she was looking at a macbook pro, the price of which was $2000 which is why she said ONLY 250gb hdd. she didnt say only because she wanted a bigger hdd, she said only because for $2000 u should be getting like 500gb hdd.

[MrBarrett13]

was she not talking and looking at the mac pro not the mac book you are talking about?

[airbarrel]

"in the real world majority ppl would buy a mac"

What world are you from? .. lol

[iDiggMGL]

The ending is so true. Plus most of the people on the Microsoft commercials are women. Not to be sexist, but wouldn't you think at least one of of the women would want a computer the looked luxurious? Maybe it's not a women thing because I would want a computer that looked luxurious, as anyone probably would, yet they all choose the fugly dells. Plus there is the entire argument that Microsoft stages these commercials to seem like less is more.

[paulanthony91]

how is ubuntu in comparison to windows 7 and mac osx leopard

[laxgolie4ever]

I believe dell is being modest because if you dig deeper on the specs you see that the hard drive for dell runs 7200 rpm while mac at 5400. Plus a lot of little things like back lit keyboard and protection plan which cost like 300 for a mac. Dell now runs with windows 7. But the truth is that you basically buy MACs for reliability and the brand.

[Timmchrispops]

For a fat nerd, you shouldn't "meh" at 90 gig.

[arthursucks]

For a fat nerd I can "meh" all I want, thank you very much.

[loupremo]

@Timmchrispops I'M SURE YOU ARE NICE AND SLIM AND BUFF. I'D MAKE YOU MY GIRL.

[upallhours9]

arthursucks- I agree with you about Vista being a memory hog.

My friend is a graphics designer, and purchased a new Micro$oft machine with 6 gigs of RAM.

It has quad core and he paid a pretty penny just to have the eye candy Vista offers.

Great Video man.

Linux person myself, using Kubuntu and Ubuntu with 1 GB on each machine.

[manjyoumethunder]

Vista isn't a 'wicked memory hog', it uses about the same amount of RAM as OS X. But it also caches commonly used programs in unused RAM to increase performance. Unused memory is wasted memory.

DDR3 is only marginally better than DDR2, the main advantage is power consumption. The extra GB is a good advantage over the Apple.

Best Buy's floor models are different than those available on the site. It was probably bigge rthan 250GB

[manjyoumethunder]

bigger than*

[xps1340]

Nobody ever factors in that if you call Dell and order a laptop, you can say "Take off $100" and they do it.

[arthursucks]

I was not aware of this...

[0m3n1337]

What's worth mentioning is that if you buy that dell XPS 13 laptop now, you get a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out. Windows 7 imo has been a really stable operating system and battery management is improved a ton. On my laptop I got an hour and 10 minutes of battery life while on Vista, and on windows 7 I got 2 hours of battery life which is quite an improvement. I know both battery lifes suck but it's a gaming laptop so you can't expect long battery life.

[stktobi]

I just ordered my xps 13 from best buy for 899.99.

2.4ghz

4gb ddr3

500gb hd (7200rpms)

9500g

[ajubloom]

While I applaud you for being thorough and catching mistakes. Most individuals wouldn't go for a smaller HD, because most wouldn't be ok swapping it out. I agree they're very comparable, but your statement saying if someone else was footing the bill they'd most all go with the macs... Not true, if it was, a lot more macs would sell than PCs with windows... You also fail to mention you could most likely run OSX on the XPS.. since the hardware is the same and all, sans mainboard :)

[arthursucks]

You are right! I guess had some bad information. I read that Apple are out selling Dell. I did some extra googling just now and you are correct. Dell is out selling Apple 2 to 1. Of course OSX, Linux, and Windows are easily installed on almost any machine these days.

[ajubloom]

I'm glad to see that you are willing to do the research and are open minded to discovering the truth; I figured as much though considering your comment on enjoying both. Too many people flip out and make massive generalizations about PC/Apple users because as with all things, there are people who taint the reputation of both due to their attitudes.

Personally looking to get a macbook myself, but I'll no doubt dual boot windows on it.....not vista though :)

[frvfilms]

gnu/linux/opensource really , really needs a hardware saler to be compared next to these syst.

the battery are different. one has an upper case "h" -

[hrgplumer]

If you chose the XPS with ubuntu, the price would probably drop $150+. Thats what I would go with if I was in the MS commercial, haha

[arthursucks]

True. But there is nothing stopping you from installing Linux on either laptop.