![]() ![]() While I’m really enjoying OS X El Capitan (everything runs smoother and my MacBook is much colder) it has put a large nail into the coffin of my two favourite OS X apps: TotalTerminal and TotalFinder. Under OSX in practice I get about 7-8 hours, which is the same as my 11″ Air.Visor-like access to Finder and Terminal on OS X El Capitan Windows 10 supposedly does much better in bootcamp as far as battery life goes. I have not run Windows enough to say for sure yet… My Air did get much better battery life in OSX, but I had Windows 7 on that one. But if you really want speed I would buy something else (the Dell can be bought with a much faster processor).ĭo you get somewhat decent batterylife in Windows or are the BootCamp drivers still crappy for that? I would say it is just about the same speed as the entry level Air (i5 1.6ghz), as they both have exactly the same turbo boost frequency (2.7Ghz). Its fast enough for me though, but I did get the 1.3Ghz option. Not enough that it bothers me, but you can tell when doing stuff like unzipping large files or running a big compile (Im a web developer). It is slightly slower than my Air was (which was an i7 model). Is that Core-M CPU holding up with the rest of the machine when you are doing demanding work? I actually like the single port more – with my Air I had to plug 3 things in every day (power, USB, thunderbolt for the display), now I only have to plug in one cable… Have a hub at work with ethernet and an external monitor – keyboard is wireless USB and mouse is bluetooth. Don’t really use any USB stuff to be honest, its just in case I need it. Not a deal breaker at all, my Air had a fan and it did not bother me… But its nice.Ĭan you get by without adapters or do you carry those separately when you expect to need them? The Surface of course is very light and thin, but the kickstand thing…ģ. The Macbook 12″ is much lighter and thinner than the Dell. Even if the keyboard was great I don’t care for the kickstand business.Ģ. ![]() ![]() I absolutely hate the Surface keyboard, its awful (at least to me), I can’t get used to it. The Dell keyboard is actually pretty good, it just isn’t as good as the Macbook one (to me – this is admittedly a preference kind of thing). I like the keyboard better than the one on the Dell. At this size the build quality matters a great deal (imo)…īut I don’t understand why you prefer it to the similar priced Dell (or the Surface Pro 3, the older ones are too small and limited) ġ. There are lots of other ones too, but most are things like the HP Stream and various low-end laptops that are plastic garbage with creaky hinges and mushy keyboards (which the Asus Zenbook suffered from). (when spec’d with 8GB Ram, SSD, and HiDPI display) Price is about the same for the most part. But the Dell can be spec’d better, has a touch screen (I don’t care, but some do), and is definitely a nice Windows laptop. If I wanted to run Windows and didn’t care at all about OSX I would still probably get the Macbook 12″, I like the feel of it and the sturdiness of a unibody design. The Macbook 12″ runs Windows 10 just fine. I do prefer OSX so of course I have a Mac bias, but I use Windows pretty much daily so I’m not a snob about it. I prefer conventional clam-shell design, so the Surface, while a very nice machine, doesn’t do it for me. Out of those I far prefer the Macbook 12″, the Dell being a very, very, close 2nd. it has a keyboard and runs a desktop OS).ĭell XPS 13″ (very thin bezel, just makes the cut) Give or take a bit here and there… In other words fits is most bags made for tablets and is easy to lug around.Ģ. how many ultra portables have you owned and how do you even define “ultra portable”?ġ.
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