New MacBook killer?
By arvaster
@arvaster (521)
United States
February 26, 2009 3:39pm CST
All this talk about the new MacBook, sleek, sexy, little MacBook. It's a really good laptop, I must say. It's a bit overprice but you're also paying for the brand.
I was surfing around today stumbling upon the new Dell Studio XPS. And first thing that came to mind was that this will be a crazy real competitor to the MacBook. Similar design, better performance, lower price.
What are your thoughts on this? I am tempted to get one to try it out :)
2 responses
@hotviper (128)
• Philippines
27 Feb 09
when i choose to buy a laptop i was looking at xps m1330, not the studio xps, because of its gaming capabilities and macbook air because of its physical beauty. but i chose the macbook air because apple really do care about quality. and its very sexy :)
@arvaster (521)
• United States
27 Feb 09
Oh yes, the MacBook Air is rather sexy, although it lacks a lot of features and has many big cons.
* No Ethernet port
* 2gb memory
* No battery replace (big cost to go to apple store since batteries usually discharge *after* warranty runs out)
* small hard drive
Not to mention it starts at $1799 - if the thiness outweighs performance and compatibility then I guess its worth it.
For ultra slim I think I would rather pay for the .5cm ASUS laptop :)
@arvaster (521)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Well better performance in an economical way. Put the same gear in the XPS and you'll have a cheaper computer. ALTHOUGH since even Dell likes to over price their laptops it isn't a huge different in price.
Here let me customize two similar 13" ones:
Apple doesn't give you too many options but for a similar configuration the price difference is $100-300.
So it's not that big of a difference.
Un-customized the MacBook starts $100 less though.
(keep in mind that the Dell comes with 4gb ddr3 already while the mac only has 2gb ddr3)
