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oh dude that's so cool hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and in front of me are what I believe to be the best ultra books on the market right now the KB Lake XPS 13 the KB Lake razor blade stealth and paint on KB Lake skylake MacBook Pro 13 inch so if you're interested in purchasing one of these three I'm hoping to make this video to help you choose between them now first I want to tackle the issue of pricing the XPS 13 comes in a wide variety of configurations you can get it as low as $800 for a kind of gimpy loadout but to make the three laptops comparable I think the $1,300 configuration is the best value the Razer Blade stealth also starts at $1000 but the best value there comes in at 1250 where you get 16 gigs of ram and then the MacBook is $1,500 paper specs look weak for the price but like I mentioned in my full review the overall experience is very good these all have excellent build quality the leader here is the MacBook the machining on this thing is fantastic and all the moving parts are very well fitted with no plate structurally it's rock solid as well the XPS 13 deserves second place here carbon fiber chassis aluminum panels it's really well-made the stealth is also really good just not as good as the other two the black anodized ation can get nicked so be careful with it get a sleeve or a skin to protect the finish there's a link to those below now without a doubt which apple has the best customer service amongst these three they're far from perfect in fact this particular macbook is basically irreparable outside of Apple but I think their customer service is really good Dell would be a distant second still decent but because they don't have retail stores it's harder to get stuff fixed and their support can be hit or miss razor they are a smaller companies you have to respect the fact that it's harder for a smaller company to have immediate customer support like the other two they are also hit or miss I would say that they are the worst of the three if you need absolutely amazing customer service the keyboards are all pretty good so it's more of a preference thing for me personally I would rank them as MacBook Pro first stealth second and the XPS 13 third the second gen butterfly switches on the MacBook are better than the first gen but they're not perfect the stealth also has RGB lighting on the keys which looks pretty cool in terms of trackpads the MacBook trackpad is king it's big it has the taptic engine so you can click anywhere tracking is dead accurate and clicking feels awesome the other two are both good I would say the XPS 13 is mildly better but I'm happy using either of them speakers on the MacBook Pro are by far the best the loudest the clearest the best base I'd say that the stealth is second best a distant second best but it's there and the XPS 13 is third port selection is best on the XPS 13 there's Thunderbolt 3 to use v 3s and an SD card slot and it has that sweet battery indicator the stealth trades the SD card slot for an HDMI port and then the MacBook Pro is the worst of the bunch with only 210 well 3 ports if you've seen my full review you'll kind of understand my take on the whole to port thing the best looking screen lid is still the XPS 13 because of that infinity edge display the panel itself also looks really nice the MacBook Pro has larger bezels but the display panel itself is the best of this group it's lower resolution than the XPS 13 but it gets very bright plus the color gamut and accuracy is really good the panel on the stealth is also solid but it's a 12 inch screen and those bezels oh those vessels see when I use the stealth normally I don't really notice the bezels they're there but because I'm doing work or playing games on it I don't really focus on the bezels but when I do a comparison video like this and I look at the difference between the two it's pretty obvious and it sticks out like a sore thumb but here's the thing if you own one I think you'll get used to it I don't think the bezels are a big deal the two Windows machines have user upgradeable storage the max storage is technically upgradable but its proprietary fortunately it's already very fast they also have different processors but they actually feel really similar to each other under normal use you'd actually have a tough time telling them apart now none of them have user upgradeable RAM the 16 gigs of RAM on the Stealth is nice if you keep lots of tabs open in chrome and the i7 and there is also decent at 1080p video edits but if you're doing regular Ultrabook things like emails word processing media consumption or Excel stuff these will all feel very similar in terms of performance for gaming the MacBook Pro actually has the best integrated video card of the bunch with the iris 540 you can get some decent frame rates in light games I'll do a full video on that later the other two laptops have HD 620 chips newer chips but slower moderate frame rates in lighter games but the iris 540 on the MacBook Pro is definitely the clear winner here the stealth also has the best compatibility right now with external GPUs for gaming it connects with the Razer core perfectly the XPS 13 kind of works with the core but the 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn't connect at all right now even in boot camp there are external GPS on the horizon that should connect with these nicely though the fans on the XPS 13 and the stealth are the most audible on idle quiet but audible the fans on the MacBook Pro on idle are essentially silent when they're under load they're all pretty quiet still that's one advantage of dual core cpus thermally they're all very comfortable to use under load with the XPS 13 being slightly warmer but I wouldn't worry about thermal issues on these laptops at all the MacBook has the best battery life at over 9 hours of use now Apple laptops traditionally had much bigger batteries button trimming down in size the battery is smaller the XPS 13 and the stealth both deliver good battery life - partially because of the more efficient KB Lake chips at the running they can comfortably hit 8 hours of battery life as well ok here's the deal you can't go wrong choosing any of these three they're all very good laptops but if you're comfortable with both Mac OS and Windows I would consider the best value to be the razor blade stealth right now core i7 16 gigs of ram 256 gigs of storage it's a really good value now it's not to say the other two aren't good they are very good or else they wouldn't be in this video but they all kind of have their and cons but best value razor blade stealth right now hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time