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MBPs do have great SSDs, but I don't particularly care about (or optimize for) resolution or colour. If you remove those from the mix, there are many examples.
by hluska 8y ago
MBPs do have great SSDs, but I don't particularly care about (or optimize for) resolution or colour.
If you remove those from the mix, there are many examples. The Dell XPS series, higher end Zenbooks, and Lenovo Ideapads all beat the MBP.
- Razengan 8y agoSo it’s disingenuous to claim “similar performance” by arbitrarily removing metrics from the mix.
- tortasaur 8y agoOn the contrary, it's disingenuous to act like resolution or color are metrics of "performance" when the colloquial usage of the word generally refers to processing speed and memory capacity. I/O speed would qualify, but is only one metric; it is correct to say it is outperformed by other machines at lower price points when accounting for the CPU and RAM.
- Razengan 8y agoThat's cherry-picking specs and definitions. The ""colloquial usage of the word"" very much includes I/O performance; disk speed has historically been the worst bottleneck, aside from network access. Resolution also affects performance: it's how much information you can view at a time. Most cheaper laptops do not present the same value as a MacBook Pro unless you ignore some of the advantages of the MBP you’re comparing against.
- ElFitz 8y agoThey do. For him. And thinking this way about what you buy is smart :-)
- Doctor_Fegg 8y ago> Resolution also affects performance: it's how much information you can view at a time. Not for me. My 40-something-year-old eyes mean that the amount of text I can view on a monitor is restricted by the text size, not by the resolution of the monitor. Retina displays make not a jot of difference to me. YMMV, of course.