The first does not mean the best: Do MacBook real competitors

It seems to have all the time to discuss new items disadvantages from Apple. The front camera 480p, only one port, the absence of a loved one many MagSafe - all this caused a storm of discontent is quite justified. Nevertheless edition Layfhakera analyzed market ultrabooks and found remarkable than the MacBook, so if it is unreasonably expensive, as they say about it, and compare it with all available Windows-alternatives.

At first glance it may seem that new MacBook not a single gram of innovation. However, almost every notebook manufacturer for this year had to submit their decisions based on energy-saving Intel M platform with a little different, and sometimes the "on paper" and superior MacBook characteristics. To find out whether this is so, the editors Layfhakera identified several core evaluation criteria and found five Windows-alternatives in a similar configuration, which you can buy right now.

Since the performance of the selected laptops substantially identical to each other, the comparison is based on our five different indicators: the display, the weight and thickness, communication ports, the continuous video playback offline and, in fact, prices configuration.

Immediately it is worth noting the presence in the solid-state MacBook PCI-E drive. The same, for example, is placed Mac Pro and provides a better performance of disk operations even in comparison with conventional SSD, plug SATA interface.

In Samsung ultrabook Another feature: it equipped quite good integrated DAC Wolfson WM5102 and software to play the tracks quality up to 24 bit, 192 kHz.

Lenovo will win buyer unusual design, sverhchotkim display and versatility, HP and Dell - its performance, ASUS - excellent value for cost and performance.

In fairness, we have also added to comparison an updated MacBook Air - is not the most compact and innovative, but the most productive and long lasting. He can survive only a productive working day without the need for recharging.

Well, the new MacBook is actually quite a few serious competitors. But often, in practice they are the first, but not the best. Manufacturers with an excess of paying attention to excess millimeter thick, not thinking about the convenience of the user experience to their end product. The first laptop on Intel M, the first with a screen resolution Quad HD, the first with a separate keyboard - these facts excite only the beginning.

I am sure that today when choosing a laser mouse you do not pay attention to the one who first found the application of this technology, or in the selection of Bluetooth-headset - on who invented it. the first smartphone with a touchscreen you do not care, you do not even will call right now.

Nevertheless, Apple sometimes gets involved in these races. Suffice it to recall the first MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch screen, which is due to a combination of weak hardware and screen ultra-high resolution permanently braked. The new MacBook is objectively beautiful and smaller competitors, its performance should be sufficient for most everyday tasks, and given the claimed battery life, full productive day without recharging - this is a real task.

Apple introduced a laptop as their vision of the future of the industry - as was the case in 2008 with the first MacBook Air. A sophisticated form factor batteries to increase capacity, a new keyboard design, energy efficient platform trackpad Force Touch with built-in electromagnets, strong emphasis on cloud computing and the motherboard just twice larger than that of the iPhone, - all this confirms the innovative notebook from Apple, which does not go to the detriment of convenience. At the moment, 84% of users are satisfied with the purchase of Apple computers, and the highest rate.

And what ultrabook would you choose? We are waiting for your comments.