Replacement laptop for Macbook Pro?

[0427]

Hi everyone, new here.

 

I'm an art student whose school recommends a Macbook Pro. Well of course, I bit the bullet and bought one last year.

 

It's the 15 inch Retina model, with the 2.5 Ghz CPU (not the base one), 16 GB RAM, 256GB SSD.

 

After a year of having it, I don't want it anymore. I know that I could probably get a chunk of it back if I sell it to someone at school, and put that into a better computer.

 

So I've been looking into the XPS 15 as a replacement, or -maybe- a Surface Book.

 

I need a good display and solid performance and the XPS 15 seems to fit that. I work in photography and film, so that display is crucial for proper editing. I know it doesn't have nearly as good battery as the Macbook, but there's enough outlets here that it doesn't matter.

 

The Surface Book looks nice mainly because of its form factor and such. I don't need the pen honestly, it just looks cool lol

 

So are there any better replacements for the Macbook than the XPS 15? Really just wanna keep it Windows across the board (I have a W10 gaming/productivity rig I built at home).

 

Thanks everyone!

[79wjd]

Well, what do you not like about the Mac?

 

Also, I wouldn't touch a Surface Book with a ten foot pole. Everyone I know who has one complains about them being awkward to use due to being top heavy. And overpriced considering it's basically just an expensive Surface Pro. What about the form factor of the Surface Book do you like? 

[Mark77]

Maybe consider a Latitude E7470 for essentially the same screen, but much better connectivity, through the docking port, to external LCDs.  Better warranty, swappable battery, and a 'pointer stick" / trackpad as well.

[ForumTryhard]

Get the XPS 15

[arnavvr]

4 minutes ago, 0427 said:

It's the 15 inch Retina model, with the 2.5 Ghz CPU (not the base one), 16 GB RAM, 256GB SSD.

 

What's wrong with your Mac? Anyways, I would get a Razer Blade.

[Daveeede]

Just get the XPS 15. I'm really happy with mine. I'd recommend getting the one in my sig since it comes with a better battery. I easliy get 7+ hours of usage.

[Enderman]

I would just keep the mac, selling it and buying something like an XPS15 won't get you barely any money back.

But what you can do is install windows on the mac, and maybe wrap it with some vinyl so it doesn't look like every other mac everyone has.

[JSD10]

If you have the money for it, get a Razer Blade. If you cant afford that than the Razer Blade Stealth, XPS 15, or Lg Gram are all great options

[0427]

Essentially the thing runs poorly despite rather light use, I strongly dislike MagSafe, and I just don't like OS X. I'd prefer to keep things consistent, even if I have to pay a little out of pocket. Probably sounds questionable, but I'm just not happy with it. 

 

Thanks everyone.

[Dackzy]

20 hours ago, JSD10 said:

If you have the money for it, get a Razer Blade

why would you ever buy a laptop with these problems

- Thermal throttlling, no matter what version you get

- Quality control issues, this means that you might get one that is broken from the start

- Build "quality", it is not good, they use good materials, but a four year old can put it better together

- Meh/bad keyboard for the price.

- No support or they have support, but it is useless

 

Just the quality control problem should make anyone stay far away from it.

[0427]

Are you referring to the Razer Blade?

[Dackzy]

26 minutes ago, 0427 said:

Are you referring to the Razer Blade?

yes

[clementk]

The surface Book / Surface pro's Might be really good for you if you also want to use the Pen for Drawing as the surface has a really good digitize in it (i have i5 Surface and its really been good). and the Display on the New surfaces book/pro is amazing also Pre-calibrated for 100% SRGB(i think i hear it somewhere and i'm using mine for photowork) and the resolution is really amazing close to 4k resolution on 12.3 inch even with windows scaling. i have it set to 200% so it still looks really good.

[FKu11]

2 Things:

1) Do you just dislike the Mac because of MacOs? Then try using Bootcamp or Parallels (saves you money)

2) The XPS 15 is a great choice, just DON'T get the cheapest version with a HDD in it ( HDD takes up space where the battery usually sits - less battery life)

 

[Pendragon]

2 hours ago, FKu11 said:

1) Do you just dislike the Mac because of MacOs? Then try using Bootcamp or Parallels (saves you money)

A Mac is honestly a terrible bootcamp Windows machine. dGPU always on, battery life to hell, thermals to hell, drivers to hell. It's good if you need to log Windows time to time, but not really good for a full time Windows machine.