[seniorsassycat]

I'm pretty happy with my xps 13 but I think it falls short of the MBP in keyboard and trackpad.

The keyboard is a little too shallow and the flat profile of the keys makes it harder to find the center of each key. I've never used an Air so I don't know how it compares but it is better than the Macbook (not the pro, this guy http://www.apple.com/macbook/).

The touchpad is the single-button kind, it looks like a MBP touchpad but the actuation force is much higher and gets even higher at the top of the pad. The pad is a lever with the fulcrum at the top, clicking on the bottom is easy but much harder at the top. tap-to-click, multifinger gestures and all that work fine.

I've had the laptop for 6 months and I've already seen some physical problems, the screens backlight flickers (black for a millisecond every 5-ish seconds). the touchpad sometimes 'locks' thinking that there is one finger pressed against it, dragging one finger will scroll instead of moving the mouse.