For Macbook Air Pro Ultrabook Computer For Mac

The immediate reaction to Apple’s seems mixed, to say the least. For every excited reaction to the laptop’s adaptive Touch Bar keys, we see people lamenting the that professional users actually need, the lack of a 32GB memory option, the lack of an SD card slot, and the lack of, well, pretty much any “pro” features in the entry-level MacBook Pro model (which still costs $1,500 and up). Fear not: If “Pro” is more than a mere buzzword to you, there’s a veritable cornucopia of attractive, yet powerful PC laptops just waiting to scratch your itch.

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And Windows itself is bending over backwards to cater to professionals, recently adding in —even Linux’s!—with a new coming early next year. There’s never been a better time for dedicated Mac users to make the switch. Rather than focus on purely enterprise notebooks, these suggestions mix firepower and flexibility with sleek design and premium features—just like the MacBook Pro is supposed to do. For even more options, be sure to check out PCWorld’s list of. Let’s start with PCWorld’s flat-out favorite, the Dell XPS 13, which has a substantially smaller footprint than the MacBook Air 13 thanks partially to its borderless “InfinityEdge” display.

It’s freaking small. Sadly, the Dell XPS 13’s memory options top out at 16GB, just like the new MacBook Pro. But in every other way it’s a superior professional laptop.

Mac faithful who swear by their Mac Mini desktop and MacBook Air, which kickstarted the Ultrabook revolution in consumer laptops, may have reason to celebrate this fall. Apple is planning on. But Apple was happy for the MacBook Air specifications to fall further and further behind the competition in three key areas. The screen was the most obvious element to fall behind.

On the exterior, Dell’s Ultrabook packs multiple USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports, Thunderbolt 3.0, an SD card slot, and even a Noble lock slot for security. Inside, the Dell XPS 13 packs more potent hardware than Apple’s laptop thanks to the inclusion of current-gen (not last-gen, cough) Intel Core processors and a blazing-fast NVMe SSD. Check out our review of for a general overview, and our for a sneak peek at the performance of the new version with Intel’s latest chip.

Pricing for Dell XPS 13 models with a Core i5 or better processor start at $1,050 on. If you think the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar is nifty, wait until you check out, a sleekly designed piece of kit packing a detachable, fully touch-enabled high-resolution display with support for the included Surface Pen Stylus. The Surface Book packs performance comparable to the new MacBook Pro, with a announced the day before Apple’s event pushing things even further with twice the graphics power of the original. You’ll find a pair of USB 3.0 ports, a Mini DisplayPort, a full-sized SD card reader, support for Microsoft’s nifty new Surface Dial accessory, and a Surface Connect connection so you can slip the laptop into the. What’s more, the Surface Book offers enterprise-ready features like TPM encryption and biometric authentication via Windows Hello.

The only real bummer: Like the other options discussed so far, the Surface Book maxes out at 16GB of RAM. The Surface Book starts at $1,500 on and increases in price the more features you add. What’s more, if you act now you can take advantage of Microsoft’s, which lets Mac users exchange an old MacBook for up to $650 off a new Surface device. The stands as PCWorld’s favorite 2-in-1 laptop, with a screen that folds back to convert the device into an impromptu tablet, and a new version was just announced that adds Intel’s new 7th-generation Kaby Lake chip (the new MacBook Pro uses older 6th-gen processors), speedy NVMe SSD options, and Thunderbolt 3.0 support. The Spectre x360 packs a touched-enabled display, a sleek sub-3 pound chassis carved from CNC’d aluminum, and a webcam that supports Windows Hello biometric authentication. Sadly, its ports are limited to USB-C connections—just like the MacBook Pro—but the Spectre x360 offers more potent internals and a longer rated battery life, at 12 hours compared to the MacBook Pro’s 10. Great audio and a luxurious-for-the-segment keyboard round out the 2-in-1’s appeal.

Model’s with a Core i5 processor start at $950 on, with a loadout comparable to the entry-level MacBook Pro for $550 less. Speaking of the entry-level MacBook Pro (which is really ), if you don’t need massive amounts of RAM and storage space, check out, which gives the XPS 13 stiff competition for PCWorld’s favorite Ultrabook. Razer’s sleek black aesthetic largely mimics the MacBook Pro’s design cues, but fancies things up with 4K display options, gorgeous IGZO screen technology, and a wonderful keyboard with per-key customizable RGB backlighting. Like most of the other PC laptops discussed here, Razer’s Blade Stealth was recently upgraded to include Intel’s new 7th-generation processors and blazing-fast PCIe M.2 SSDs. (PC makers don’t take four years to upgrade their hardware.) It also packs another nifty trick up its sleeve: Compatibility with, which allows you to use the power of full-blown desktop graphics cards when connected to the laptop. That helps keep the Blade Stealth slim enough for travel, but potent when you need extra graphics oomph.

Pricing for the Razer Blade Stealth starts at $1,000 for the base model on, with configurations topping out at the $2,000 4K version seen below. But what if you need more mobile firepower, not MacBook Pro-like compromise? Witness the recently revamped 17-inch.

It’s thicker and heavier than the other laptops listed here, but still manages to keep a MacBook-esque form factor in a sub-1-inch chassis, and it puts that extra space to good use. Razer’s touting the Razer Blade Pro as a desktop in a laptop body, and it ain’t lying. This beast packs options for up to 32GB of RAM, 6th-gen quad-core Core i7 processors that can boost to up to 3.5GHz, 2TB of PCI-E SSDs configured in RAID 0, and god-tier GTX 1080 graphics paired with a 4K IGZO display featuring Nvidia’s G-Sync screen-smoothing technology and 100 percent Adobe color-space coverage. As if that wasn’t enough, the Razer Blade Pro packs a full backlit RGB mechanical keyboard into its chassis and a full array of port options, including three USB 3.0 ports, HDMI 2.0, ethernet, an SD card reader, Thunderbolt 3/USB-C, and even a Kensington lock slot. Sadly, the new Razer Blade Pro hasn’t quite hit the streets just yet, but you can sign up on to be notified of its arrival. Keep your checkbook handy, because this monster starts at a cool $3,700.

Design Apple seems to have taken the principle 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' to heart with the design of the MacBook Air 2018, as it looks identical to previous models save for smaller and darker bezels. We can hardly blame Apple for sticking with the knife's edge design of the original MacBook Air. The MacBook Air 2015 and its forbearers are practically timeless products. They all share a design that competitors are still emulating years later – and only recently have done well. This sort of tear drop design is what spurred the entire Ultrabook movement in the Windows PC space. Even by today’s standards, the MacBook Air remains to be one of the thinnest, lightest and most stylish laptops in the market. Of course, beyond aesthetics, the MacBook Air 2018 heavily modernizes original's design.

The display features significantly smaller black bezels compared to the thick gray edges you'll find around the 2015 model's screen. In fact, Apple claims it has 50% narrower bezels.

The new MacBook Air 2018 is also 10% thinner measuring just 0.61-inches at its thickest point. Weighing in at 2.75 pounds, it's also a a quarter pound lighter than the previous edition. This drop in dimensions is largely thanks to the MacBook Air 2018 adopting a fanless Intel Y-series processor. That said, it's still impressive how Apple managed to make the MacBook Air 2015 so thin and light while still relying on fan-cooled, full-fat Intel processors. Of course, the ports on offer and the display were in dire need of an update. On this latest MacBook Air, you'll find two USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports that both support charging, up to 5K display out and 40Gbps file transfers.

Mercifully, you'll still be able to find a headphone jack on this laptop as well. Apple's other modern laptop reinventions have also made there way here including the company's latest-generation butterfly switch keyboard and Force Touch trackpad.

Macbook Pro Air Laptop

Although we would have much rather preferred a touchpad that clicked, at least MacBook Air 2018 tracking surface is now 20% larger. On the top right side of that keyboard, you'll also find a Touch ID fingerprint reader. Last but not least, the MacBook Air 2018 now features dedicated speaker grills, like the MacBook Pro. Those perforations aren't just for show, either; they house speakers that are 25% louder and deliver two-times the amount of bass than that of the previous MacBook Air, according to Apple. All told, it's a better design in terms of portability, but it doesn't leave much room for power similar to that of what the MacBook Air held against contemporaries of the time.

Display The higher resolution display is easily the biggest upgrade the 2018 MacBook Air has seen. Now featuring a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution that amounts to 4 million total pixels, the MacBook Pro 2018 screen is four times sharper than the previous 2015 model. Additionally, Apple claims its latest Retina Display renders 48% more color. Even when it first launched, the MacBook Air display was not nearly as sharp as competing rivals in its price bracket: a mere 13.3-inch panel at 1,440 x 900 resolution. At the time, laptops in its price range were already pushing 1080p resolutions. However, the previous MacBook Air may never have achieved its legendary battery life figures if not for that highly-tuned (if awfully muddled) display resolution.

And, if you’re the type to simply write papers and read emails on a laptop, the display is completely passable. We'll have to see how the new MacBook Air fares in our battery tests with its vastly sharper display. It almost seems assured that we won't see run times hit double digits. Performance and price Here's where the MacBook Air 2018 fails to impress. We were hoping this latest rendition would feature full fat Intel Core processors that go up to quad-core, instead what we got was a machine that only features dual-core Intel Core Y-series CPUs. As if that wasn't a bad enough blow, the MacBook Air 2018 only features (albeit faster) DDR3 2,133MHz memory – the same type found on the MacBook 2015 – when many laptops have since moved onto DDR4 memory, which supports larger capacities. The best news here is the new MacBook Air 2018 has increased the maximum memory capacity from 8GB to 16GB.

From its inception to today, the MacBook Air was always billed as a lower-power device – it’s practically in the name. However, we were always surprised by what the laptop could do considering its limitations. That said, the MacBook Air internals are dated in some areas and (relatively speaking) lower-power than before in others, from the processor in use to the memory type on offer. You could still easily get by merely word processing and web browsing on this laptop. The original MacBook Air was lauded as the most affordable Mac you could possibly buy, with models starting at $999 (about £770, AU$1,410) in later versions following its 2008 launch.

Unfortunately, the MacBook Air 2018 is quite a bit more expensive at a base $1,199 (£1,199, AU$1,849), thanks to all those display and port upgrades. Takeaway The MacBook Air 2018 undoubtedly a better machine compared to its three-year old predecessor.

Mac Pro Air Laptop

But, it almost seems like a win by default. Of course, the MacBook Air 2018 is going to be the winning machine when it features a higher-resolution display, narrower screen bezels and newer processors. However, there are also a few upgrades MacBook Air 2015 users will have to begrudgingly accept with this new model, including the Force Touch Trackpad and higher starting price. If you ask us, the MacBook Air 2018 is less of a successor to the affordable Apple laptop of yore and more of a refreshed version of the 12-inch MacBook.