[ActorNightly]

Now this is the case. Before, Dell XPSs were VERY good laptops with same performance for a cheaper price.

And thats not including thermal throttling, the bullshit Apple pulls with background OS stuff like checking executable hashes online, being restricted to what software you can run, and so on.

[Lio]

Are you sure?

A Dell XPS13 with 8Gb RAM 512GB SSD is $1,349[1].

An Apple MacBook Air with 8Gb RAM 512GB SSD is $1,249[2].

The XPS13 is great, I have one myself with Linux on. They're definitely in the same price range as the Apple laptops though.

I think the other points you've raised have been addressed else where.

There's no restriction on what software you run. You can even replace the OS with Linux if you like by configuring the security.

The hash key transmission seems to be used for malware detection, is optional and Apple have committed to not keeping logs of it when people do use it.

1. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13-touc...

2. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

[ActorNightly]

I dunno if you are serious or not, but the XPS is a big step above the Air in performance.

Even with current M1 Macs, outside of the battery life, you have sub 2k laptops that blow the M1 out of the water

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15333968

[Lio]

Not sure I’d call that “blowing out of the water”.

I think, for a light weight laptop I’d rather take the single core bump of the air over the marginal gain for multicore of the Asus. That’s just me though.

Geekbench 5:

Asus: 1218 sc, 8031 mc [1]

MacBook Air: 1726 sc, 7417 mc [2]

1. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4854331

2. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4856634