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that's pretty standard though what else are you getting though are you getting the better build quality here or here how about the better keyboard the better operating system the better performance overall especially with the operating systems taken into account I'm gonna talk about all that this video I purchased both of these laptops and by the way out of pocket so I am by no means biased just for the sake of being biased because a company sent me one I purchased both of these myself and I'm gonna tell you exactly how I feel about both in this video one of the first differences you'll notice between the Dell XPS and the MacBook Pro is the difference in build quality so Dell took a unique approach here that decided to sandwich a carbon-fiber slab in between two aluminum panels the carbon fiber is a welcome feature I think it sets this laptop apart from its competition at least in the window space it does though have a rubbery consistency doesn't feel as premium as I think it should and also is a fingerprint and oil magnet on the macbook pro side though the inside the back panel and the top panel are all made out of aluminum you'll find a solid piece on top same at the back and same with the front this build is just I really think it's next to none I think the build quality of the macbook pro is superior to that of the XPS 13 s only because everything is just so well crafted the macbook pro has just a very minimalistic appeal and i am ok with that just look at the back panel how plain it is let's see him I try to open both laptops with one finger and ok XPS is moving a bit nope it didn't open ok for the MacBooks seamless another superior quality of the macbook pro its enormous trackpad some people think it's a little too big but I don't mind the extra real estate here I mean really this is wasted space other than that unless you have like a fingerprint sensor or something down here so I like the extra space it's a very smooth trackpad the glass is seamless and I also like the little haptic engine I have built into these literally the opposite can be said of the XPS 13 's trackpad it does feel fairly smooth but it is considerably smaller than the MacBooks and I don't like the actual physical clicks of left and right on the traffic once you use a MacBook trackpad it's really difficult to go back to anything else the next set of differences I want to discuss have to do with these keyboards and the Mac books lately have gotten a bad rap over there butterfly switches but there are two different generations you should keep in mind the first generation was implemented in the 2015-16 MacBook 12 inch models I think they're still implemented in the MacBook 12 inch series and those switches really had no key travel no actuation it kind of felt like you were just typing on a solid desk I was getting used to it I'll admit but now that I have enjoyed gen 2 switches for quite a while I've got to say I really like the feeling of his keyboard it sounds weird it doesn't look like you would enjoy this keyboard because the keys don't move very far at all but I like the feeling of these better than they do of the XPS their teens keyboard it's it's just my preference I don't like the mushy feeling of the chiclet keyboard here on the XPS 13 key travel is considerably higher but it just it feels like a typical membrane keyboard you know the keys kind of wobble off on side to side and it it just doesn't give you that satisfying feeling both keyboards are also fitted with LED backlights the Mac books are a bit more pronounced and they don't have too much of bleed around the keys the XPS 13 czar the complete opposite really just depends on what you want aesthetically here now when it comes to screens this is where things are gonna get fairly subjective if you want to touch screen you got to pay more for it on the XPS 13 if I had gotten this fully loaded but without the touchscreen this laptop would literally cost as much as the MacBook Pro does this is the base model keep that in mind so this 3200 by 1800 resolution XO panel is a very beautiful display I'd say the colors are fairly accurate you can see the color gamut here in comparison I like the touch screen capabilities of the XPS 13 I think it's a nice addition and it's hard to go from a touchscreen laptop back to one that doesn't have that capability but I will say that the trackpad of the MacBook Pro does make up for some of this loss it gets considerably brighter than the XPS their teens and is also slightly larger but again does not have any touchscreen capability another perk of the XPS 13 in this category is its near bezel list display this is what Dell calls its infinity display and it's super beautiful I've got to say it's difficult to jump from this back to a laptop with average bezels like the MacBook Pro 13s they just seemed super thick just like wasted space in comparison to what Dell has done with the XPS 13 and it's 15 for that matter something else to note the MacBook Pro suffers from a bit more backlight bleed on this IPS display the bottom left-hand quarters especially pronounced the XPS 13 doesn't have too much of that at all regarding your concerns on battery life the MacBook will generally last about an hour or so longer just with daily use if you want to talk about just Netflix in general using Google Chrome to stream Netflix will result in about 45 minutes or so of extra battery life on the MacBook Pro both of these displays at 50 percent brightness and then if you want to look at it from just a software opportunistic standpoint the XPS 13 has the ability to download the Netflix app from the Microsoft Windows Store which means that you'll have considerably less overhead there than you will using a browser like Google Chrome which has been known to utilize resources in questionable ways so using Chrome to stream Netflix Safari to stream Netflix and also the Netflix app on the XPS 13 the exbest was actually able to pull out just a bit more battery life from the Netflix app because it does have less overhead than both Safari and Chrome do on the macbook both of these laptops are sporting ultra low power cable H CPUs which means that h.265 encoding decoding on Netflix and high resolutions like 4k will result in slightly less battery being consumed in the long run the MacBook Pros i5 does fall a bit short of the XPS is i7 but these are literally almost the exact same CPU that same core same thread count one it just clocked a bit higher bend a bit higher which means slightly better performance out of the XPS but I would say in most general cases you won't tell a difference between the two once more the MacBook Pros Intel IR S Plus graphic 640 gives it an extra punch in games if you're willing to play to resolution lower the native something like 720p you can actually maintain steady frame rates as for the XPS well not too shabby in any game including dota 2 other features of the XPS 13 kind of just a walk-around review at this point an LED notification light up front in front of the trackpad which will turn orange if your battery life gets low around 10 percent or so on the right side of the laptop an SD card slot which I wish the MacBook had this is really good for content creators there's a speaker over here on the right side also a USB 3.0 hub with power share on the left side you'll find the power connector a USB type-c port with Thunderbolt three capabilities another USB 3.0 hub and a headphone jack also a battery notification light which is super cool to tell you how much battery have left in your laptop you don't even have to open it up to figure that out the other speaker is on this side as well with the MacBook Pro nothing really to show off here nothing on the bottom nothing really on top except a shiny Apple logo that does not light up any more on the left side of the laptop there are two USB type-c ports and on the opposite side just a single headphone jack kind of weird that there's a headphone jack on the macbook pro but not on the iPhone 7 there are a few remedies here though you could of course carry dongles around which I just yeah it's a fact of life via MacBook with type-c ports but these become just a hassle to carry around especially we have multiple dongles and on top of that if you lose one you're kind of screwed so a company called dot case has quote revolutionized the way that we look at dongles and MacBook Pro accessibility so they've taken a case literally a thick a faux leather case and they've included i/o ports for HDMI Ethernet USB type A and an SD card slot you even get two additional type-c ports for whatever else you can hook up like ten dot cases together and have an unlimited supply of i/o ports I am surprised that no well-known company has done this yet for the 13 inch and 15 inch MacBook Pros dock case has these sleeves for both model sizes and I'm gonna say this is just a very cohesive product I really like how simple it is to use I I'm not the biggest fan of the fact that you have to plug in a small type C to type-c connector to link your macbook to the dock case but hey it's better than not having those IO ports they've actually got a kick start at running that will end in a few days they surpassed their goal a long time ago this tells you how much hype there is behind this product how simple it is to use and just how effective it is as well so if you want to contribute anyway you can find their Kickstarter link in the video description just something else to kind of throw into the mix to show that well there are solutions coming out for the MacBook Pro peripheral issue now here's the fun part I'm going to bring up both of these cameras and I'm gonna show you how terrible both of them are okay so I'm recording with both laptops you can see how orientations are definitely different here so the MacBook has a just a very generic location for the camera up top and it's resolution is subpar audio is not bad though the XPS 13 totally different story only is the audio not that great but the camera positioning is super bad because of this like minimalistic bezel design that Dells implemented which i think is beautiful but it does compromise camera location that's why I have to awkwardly like point it up super high so you can see my face I'm really not a fan of either of these and four laptops that cost over $1000 each they're just subpar there's really no other word for them something else to note about the XPS 13 that I've documented in a dedicated video check it out right here is the coil whine this laptop has insane coil on and it's pretty much a common thing check forms regarding XPS 13 s a lot of people experienced this issue and this laptop is no exception coil line gets soul sometimes I really wish you could hear it in the microphone just have a listen to how bad this sounds both of these laptops do have built-in fans of course the XPS s do turn on a bit more and they're also slightly louder I think that just has to do with the low overhead of OS 10 also mac books have been known to get super hot before their fans turn on because Apple wants this super quiet appeal right this is a silent laptop or a silent as it can be but that does result in your lap getting super hot sometimes I'm serious you could end up with third-degree burns if you set this on your lap when it's under full load here's another distinction sound quality coming from the speakers the XPS 13 Czar decent but they get pretty trebly past around 40% volume the MacBook speakers are incredible here's the XPS 13 s at full volume and here are the MacBook Pro speakers at full volume so I would say yeah MacBook Pro speakers win by a long shot the last things to discuss with each of these than their operating systems at this point it's difficult for me to advocate for Windows 10 laptop and an ultra low power CPU like this only because look this fan will spoil up if I open up something as simple as the taskbar I'm not even joking this thing will spool up and get pretty hot because CPU utilization reaches 50 60 % just with task manager open whereas with OS 10 things don't get very hot because the operating system is already low profile I'm also a huge fan of optimization on Mac OS I use Final Cut Pro all the time when I'm on the go also iMovie iMovie still results in better render times than an equivalent file with Adobe Premiere on the XPS 13 and this is what 16 gigs of ram twice as much as this one and an i7 versus an i-5 my personal pick between the two it's got to be the MacBook Pro and it's only because I use this on the go I'm a video editor I do that for a living and I want to have the best experience possible this provides that it's just much easier to use these programs with the very large trackpad the excellent battery life and the low system overhead you might crucify me for saying that but in a mobile sense I do prefer Mac OS I prefer a MacBook Pro over an XPS 13 or the like I use Windows in the studio because well I need Windows to run some of the programs that I use to bring you content when I actually create stuff where I am now but when I'm on the go this is really all I need sure you get better specs more bang for your buck with the Windows laptop then you do with an equally priced MacBook or MacBook Pro but that's not really the point here the programs that I need is a content creator when I'm not in the studio are better suited on the MacBook Pro in fact you can't even use Final Cut Pro on a Windows laptop so that kind of rules things out there there are pros and cons to each obviously different user bases different intents but for what I do as a content creator I much prefer Final Cut Pro on the go I also prefer the fast render times with that software here because you can't get it on the equivalent Windows laptop if you liked this video or at least appreciate my opinions be sure to give this video a thumbs up do appreciate that be sure to give this one a thumbs 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