New Razer Blade or MacBook Pro

[rf9661]

Hello!

 

I am looking for a laptop that will be used on the go. I will be doing school work, lots of YouTube, and light gaming (CS:GO.) I'm in between the MacBook Pro 13" 256GB model and the New Razer Blade 512GB. I'm tempted to buy Mac due to its software and cheaper price. I haven't purchased either since I know Fall is when both companies tend to release their new products. Which laptop, purchase it now or later? Let me know!

 

Regards,

Richard

[BKoster98]

I would wait till later.  If you don't like the new one at least the old one will probably be a bit cheaper.

[79wjd]

At this point if you're not desparate, I would say wait. Skylake Macbooks should be releasing soon....I'd guess sometime in October/November. 

 

 

On a slightly related note, my three year old 15" rMBP that I got on October 31st 2013 is basically just as good as the one still available....that makes me feel good (about owning it, not about buying a new one -- although the extra performance wouldn't make much of a difference to me anyway -- extra RAM would I guess though....)  

[GalacticRuler]

Maybe try to find a laptop with an A8 or A10 APU. If you want to save money those are definitely are cheaper and can play CS:GO at 30 FPS.

[GauntletV2]

Why are you looking at either of these? How much do you have to spend, should you spend all of it? If you give me some wants, there are better options, remember, hd4400 graphics can run csgo at medium settings at 60fps

[Enderman]

The mac has much better build quality and customer support.

You can also run windows on it if you like it better than OSX, for gaming.

[Pendragon]

38 minutes ago, rf9661 said:

Which laptop, purchase it now or later? Let me know!

Later. Either way the Razer Blade is trash. MBP is good if you need OSX. 

 

34 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

On a slightly related note, my three year old 15" rMBP that I got on October 31st 2013 is basically just as good as the one still available....that makes me feel good (about owning it, not about buying a new one -- although the extra performance wouldn't make much of a difference to me anyway -- extra RAM would I guess though....)  

Hehe, me too m8. My 2012 first gen retina MBP still works like a dream today. Macbooks run pretty smooth on OSX over time. 

[79wjd]

Just now, Pendragon said:

Later. Either way the Razer Blade is trash. MBP is good if you need OSX. 

 

Hehe, me too m8. My 2012 first gen retina MBP still works like a dream today. Macbooks run pretty smooth on OSX over time. 

My 2007 MBP (2.2ghz C2D, 4gb RAM) still runs Mavericks fine (it didn't handle Yosemite too well, I never tested El Capitan). But I fully expect my current Mac to easily last another 3+ years. I'm going to need to replace my battery soon since I'm at 1750 cycles (it's rated for 1000), and 16gb of RAM is borderline enough for me considering I usually have around 30 chrome tabs, a VM, steam, messages, and itunes open.

[rf9661]

7 hours ago, GauntletV2 said:

Why are you looking at either of these? How much do you have to spend, should you spend all of it? If you give me some wants, there are better options, remember, hd4400 graphics can run csgo at medium settings at 60fps

I'm looking at the Razer Blade and MacBook Pro due to design, performance, and favor of these companies. I'm at around the $2000 budget but I'm flexible. This also won't be my main driver/gaming computer. The only real specification I have is a nice design, performance, and at least a 1440p screen. Let me know!

 

Also, do you know if Razer offers support for their products if I'm ever to run into an issue?

[Dackzy]

2 hours ago, rf9661 said:

I'm looking at the Razer Blade and MacBook Pro due to design, performance, and favor of these companies. I'm at around the $2000 budget but I'm flexible. This also won't be my main driver/gaming computer. The only real specification I have is a nice design, performance, and at least a 1440p screen. Let me know!

 

Also, do you know if Razer offers support for their products if I'm ever to run into an issue?

Razer "laptop" (more like a oven)

1. Thermal throttles a lot and I mean a LOT

2. Shit build quality, good materials, but a four year old can put it better togther

3. No quality control, so you might get one that is okay, but you might also get one that is broken

4. The keyboard, I have tried cheap laptops with better keyboards, not even joking, that keyboard is something you should get on a 600$ laptop not 2k.

5. "support" yeah they are stupid and not that willing to help you, just a bunch of fucktards.

 

Why do you care so much about design? Why do you "need" atleast 1440p?

[Pendragon]

I have 0 idea when the Macbook Pro is FINALLY going to be released. Please let it be at the September 7th event. Idk. Feels unlikely cause Apple would be announcing a ridiculous amount of things, new Iphones, new Watches, new MBP. 

[Dackzy]

4 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I have 0 idea when the Macbook Pro is FINALLY going to be released. Please let it be at the September 7th event. Idk. Feels unlikely cause Apple would be announcing a ridiculous amount of things, new Iphones, new Watches, new MBP. 

They better upgrade the cooling, if they do that then I might see if I can get my hands on a MB13, if they offer something neat. I don't care about the OS.

[79wjd]

17 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

Why do you care so much about design? Why do you "need" atleast 1440p?

I personally don't find 1080p to be enough real estate for me. So there are reasons why one would want 1440p.

8 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I have 0 idea when the Macbook Pro is FINALLY going to be released. Please let it be at the September 7th event. Idk. Feels unlikely cause Apple would be announcing a ridiculous amount of things, new Iphones, new Watches, new MBP. 

I'd expect it to be in October/November. There's very little chance it'll be announced in September. 

 

[Dackzy]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

I personally don't find 1080p to be enough real estate for me. So there are reasons why one would want 1440p.

well on a laptop I think 1080p is plenty, but on a desktop 1440p x2 yes please.

[79wjd]

Just now, Dackzy said:

well on a laptop I think 1080p is plenty, but on a desktop 1440p x2 yes please.

Personally preferences. 

 

I find 1080 to not be enough for me -- even at 15". It's not just an issue of pixel density, it has more to do with the fact that 2880x1800 (the 15" rMBP's resolution) has significantly more screen space to work with. 

[Dackzy]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

Personally preferences. 

 

I find 1080 to not be enough for me -- even at 15". It's not just an issue of pixel density, it has more to do with the fact that 2880x1800 (the 15" rMBP's resolution) has significantly more screen space to work with. 

yeah if you don't scale it like apple does. Don't the text get too small if you don't scale? I only have around 3 maybe 4 things open at the same time that I use on a laptop. Word, internet and PDF and I find 900p to be enough for me on a 14inch laptop.Fair enough I guess, but the screen real estate becomes smaller if you scale

[79wjd]

6 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

yeah if you don't scale it like apple does. Don't the text get too small if you don't scale? I only have around 3 maybe 4 things open at the same time that I use on a laptop. Word, internet and PDF and I find 900p to be enough for me on a 14inch laptop.Fair enough I guess, but the screen real estate becomes smaller if you scale

Without scaling it at all it's a bit too small sometimes. But you can download a program (screen resX) and scale it however you'd like. 2560x1440 is about right on 15" imo. 

 

I have a bunch of stuff open at any one time. Top left quarter is video, right half is my main chrome tabs (so forum, email, main things I'm reading, etc...). Bottom left corner is messages/steam. Then when I'm doing some form of (unofficial) research I'll open up another window or two and put them in the top left quarter and bottom left quarter. 

 

Then, when I'm working on some code for school or code in general I (sometimes -- depending on the code) like the code window to take up 2/3rds of the screen and in the other third I put the assignment specs, something the assignment affects, or a help forum (piazza/so/etc...).

 

 

I could really benefit from a dual screen laptop, unfortunately, that's not a realistic option. 

[Dackzy]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

SNIP

Damn that would becomes way too small for me. The only reason why I would get 1440p on a laptop is because pretty  

[Pendragon]

15 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

I find 1080 to not be enough for me -- even at 15". It's not just an issue of pixel density, it has more to do with the fact that 2880x1800 (the 15" rMBP's resolution) has significantly more screen space to work with. 

 

4 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Without scaling it at all it's a bit too small sometimes. But you can download a program (screen resX) and scale it however you'd like. 2560x1440 is about right on 15" imo. 

Interesting. I use the 1800p with no scaling as well as my T560 1620p without scaling either. Why not just use the default OSX scaling available. 1440p is pretty close to the option between recommended and 0 scaling. 

[79wjd]

9 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

 

Interesting. I use the 1800p with no scaling as well as my T560 1620p without scaling either. Why not just use the default OSX scaling available. 1440p is pretty close to the option between recommended and 0 scaling. 

The "more space" scaling option is actually more like 1920x1200. 

 

Here is the default setting by Apple:

 

Here is the 'more space' option:

 

 

Here's true 2560x1600: 

 

and here's 2880x1800:

[rf9661]

52 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

Razer "laptop" (more like a oven)

1. Thermal throttles a lot and I mean a LOT

2. Shit build quality, good materials, but a four year old can put it better togther

3. No quality control, so you might get one that is okay, but you might also get one that is broken

4. The keyboard, I have tried cheap laptops with better keyboards, not even joking, that keyboard is something you should get on a 600$ laptop not 2k.

5. "support" yeah they are stupid and not that willing to help you, just a bunch of fucktards.

 

Why do you care so much about design? Why do you "need" atleast 1440p?

I prefer 1440p for YouTube watching. I tend to care about design since I don't necessarily want to be walking around with something that looks like I pulled it out of a trash bin.

[Dackzy]

2 minutes ago, rf9661 said:

I prefer 1440p for YouTube watching. I tend to care about design since I don't necessarily want to be walking around with something that looks like I pulled it out of a trash bin.

You could get a XPS 13 with iris pro, that should be plenty for csgo or the XPS 15 if you want more power. A MacBook would also be able to play CSGO.

[rf9661]

4 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

You could get a XPS 13 with iris pro, that should be plenty for csgo or the XPS 15 if you want more power. A MacBook would also be able to play CSGO.

Do you think the MacBook Pro could handle CS:GO without thermal throttling?

[Dackzy]

Just now, rf9661 said:

Do you think the MacBook Pro could handle CS:GO without thermal throttling?

no, not unless they upgrade the cooling system or next gen CPUs don't get as hot as they are now or both. The XPS 15 also thermal throttles a little, but you can under volt the CPU a bit to get rid of that

[rf9661]

13 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

no, not unless they upgrade the cooling system or next gen CPUs don't get as hot as they are now or both. The XPS 15 also thermal throttles a little, but you can under volt the CPU a bit to get rid of that

Ok. At this point I am pretty sure about either the MacBook Pro or the Razer Blade.