
On the Black Magic Disc test, the MacBook Pro’s 1TB SSD reached a write speed of 2,224 MBps and a read speed of 2,116.
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During the Handbrake video transcoding test, the MacBook Pro transcoded a 4K to 1080p in 8 minutes, which is over 2 minutes faster than the XPS 15’s 10:16. When we ran Geekbench 4.3, an overall performance test, the MacBook reached 31,178, which beat the XPS 15’s 25,934. The laptops tore through our real-world tests, and they also did great on our synthetic tests.

The MacBook Pro with its 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9980HK processor and the Dell with its 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10750H CPU are multitasking masters. Both scores are above my usual 70-wpm average.īoth the MacBook Pro and the Dell XPS 15 are packing some serious components. When I took the 10fastfingers typing test, I achieved 75 words per minute on the MacBook compared with 71 wpm on the XPS 15. And while the keyboard is definitely comfortable, compared to the Magic keyboard, the XPS 15’s keys were a little mushy. Similar to the XPS 13, the 15 now has larger keys, but without sacrificing good spacing. I didn’t have to worry about my fingers bottoming out, which is always a good thing. The keys are clicky and have more feedback than the Butterfly keys. Apple has put the typists of the world out of our collective misery by putting the unreliable and uncomfortable Butterfly keyboard to rest in favor of the Magic keyboard. And with an average 434 nits, the XPS 15 is just a smidge brighter than the MacBook (429 nits). The XPS 15 measured 132% of the sRGB color gamut compared to the MacBook’s 114%. And with its higher resolution, finer details like the actress’ flyaway hairs and the gleam of the golden awards in the background were cleaner on the XPS 15. But the hue was more inviting on the XPS 15. Not that actress Tracee Ellis Ross didn’t look resplendent in her sunflower yellow dress on both displays - she did. Watching The High Note trailer side-by-side, the XPS 15 definitely was the more vivid of the two notebooks. But while it would have been nice to get a 4K panel, Apple stuck with its 2560 x 1440 Retina display, just in a 16-inch size. The borders are nowhere near as slim as the XPS 15’s bezels, but they’re definitely much slimmer than past MacBooks. Apple has also started shrinking the bezels. The latter is a legacy slot which should make a lot of photographers and videographers happy.ĭell XPS 15 (2020) (Image credit: Laptop Mag)īut two can play that game.
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The XPS 15 gives you a USB Type-C port, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, a headphone jack, a wedge lock slot and a full SD slot. This is a battle between the old and the new. But the MacBook Pro (4.3 pounds, 14.2 x 9.8 x 0.8 inches) is thicker. The Touch Bar sits above the keyboard with the power/Touch ID button residing in the top right.īut how do the laptops stack up in terms of weight and size? The 4.5-pound XPS 15 (13.6 x 9.1 x 0.7 inches) is the heftier of the two. Inside the laptop, you get more aluminum goodness with an absurdly large touchpad taking up a fair amount of the palm rest directly below the keyboard. Like every MacBook you’ve seen for the past five years, the 16-inch MacBook Pro has gentle rounded corners, a smooth, sleek finish and the trademark half-eaten logo on the lid. Our review unit came in Space Gray, but the notebook is also available in Silver. The MacBook Pro’s chassis is made entirely from aluminum. MacBook Pro (16-inch) (Image credit: Laptop Mag)Īll aluminum, all the time. Take a look under the hood and you’ve got a 9th Gen Intel Core i9 processor ready to tear through all your productivity tasks and an AMD GPU primed to handle any data crunching or content creation you have in mind.

Oh, and theMacBook also boasts some of the best speakers you’ll find on a premium laptop. The laptop also has the Magic keyboard, which is music to the ears of typists everywhere. The evolution of the 15-inch MacBook Pro, the new laptop is bigger and better, flaunting a 16-inch Retina display. In the other corner, there’s the 16-inch MacBook Pro. The notebook also has an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q GPU so you can edit photos and videos or play a game or two. Plus, this is the first XPS featuring Intel’s new 10th Gen Comet Lake H-series processor, which is great for multitasking. Dell also found a way to dramatically shrink the bezels even further, including the thick bottom border. The newly updated laptop is smaller, but still manages to house larger keys and a massive keyboard.
