and this is a video on the best

alternatives to the 2016 15 inch MacBook

pro now it's hard to find a truly

comparably device to that 15-inch

MacBook Pro because it's got some pretty

unique features like the touch bar and

mac OS but if you're comfortable using

mac OS or Windows and you're just

looking for a premium laptop that has

good build quality has good performance

with a quad-core CPU and has good

portability.

this video's for you. Now this is not an

exhaustive list but these are ones that

are personally really like these are all

quad-core laptop so no surface products

or ultrabooks because those are all to

core cpus okay first up we have the 2016

15 inch MacBook Pro itself super-thin

pretty powerful but very expensive and

it's only equipped with Thunderbolt 3

ports.

Next up we have last year's 15-inch

MacBook Pro it's bigger but it's still a

very capable machine, it has more ports

and it's at a cheaper price point right

now. we have the asus UX501 this

is the most premium laptop that ASUS

makes outside of their gaming lineup. not

the thinnest laptop but it has a really

big battery. the MSI GS63 is one of

the most powerful laptops in here since

it has a GTX 1060, it's a gaming laptop

but because it's pretty thin and light

it makes the cut.

next up we have the Dell XPS 15, it's

still one of the best laptops ever from

dell, the carbon fiber finish and the

Infinity display really make this a

strong contender here. We also have the

Aero14 from Gigabyte comes in black

green and orange and it's also equipped

with the GTX 1060 but this is a smaller

14-inch screen.

Lastly we have the 2016 Razer Blade also

with the GTX 1060 One of the thinnest

laptops with this powerful graphics chip

it also has a 14 inch screen and it has

chrome lighting so like I've done in

other videos like this i'm going to go

through some categories and then tell

you my top picks for each particular

category. In terms of build quality the

MacBooks are the kings here they're

really well-built the razor blade and

the XPS 15 I would say are tied for

second place the XPS 15 and feel a

little more durable the razorblade look

cleaner to me you can actually get skins

for all three of these laptops from

hebron and they can look awesome i'll

link them below the 4k display on the

XPS 15 is really nice

it's not the brightest of the group but

it's still plenty bright it's the most

color accurate and it has super thin

bezels the 2016 MacBook Pro has lower

resolution but it's very bright which is

great if you use your laptop outdoors

lot it has a very wide color gamut but

it isn't as color accurate the UX501

also is a great 4k display none of them

have bad screens that was just a matter

of preference for resolution screen size

MacBooks tend to have terrible user

upgradability in fact the 2016 15 inch

MacBook Pro can't be upgraded at all the

RAM and the SSD are both on board and

all of the windows laptops have

upgradeable ram and storage except for

the razorblade you can only upgrade the

storage for the razor blade the most

upgradeable is the msi GS63 it has

two ram slots and two drive bays the XPS

15 can also do this but it's a little

bit more complex got to order some parts

and to do that these all have good

keyboards none of them are bad

personally I like the keyboard on the

2016 15 inch MacBook Pro the most i know

a lot of people would disagree but I

personally can take the fastest and most

accurately with it

no joke the GS63 the XPS15 and the

Razer Blade with chrome elating are also

good but you know what you can't go

wrong with any of these keyboards are

all enjoyable to use the MacBooks are

still the trackpad leaders the taptic

engine the surface texture of the

precision there's still the best

it's kind of sad we're rolling into 2017

here and windows laptops are still

haven't perfected the trackpad but of

this bunch the one that I like the most

is the XPS 15 now any of them that can

use native windows precision drivers are

going to be better but the MacBook track

pads are still the best the laptop with

the best selection of ports is

definitely the MacBook not kidding i'd

say the winner is the msi GS63 has a

ton of ports but the SD reader is slower

i think it's used to be too but

basically all the windows laptops and

have a pretty good selection of ports

the razor blade is missing an SD reader

the Aero14 doesn't have the Honorable

three support but aside from that

they're all well equipped with ports the

only one here with rock-solid external

GPU support is the Razer Blade so if you

connect that to the razor core it works

perfectly

the XPS 15 isn't bad either but the rest

of them are still kind of flaky right

now

external gps aside from MacBooks they're

all rocking the Skylake 6700 HQ

processor very similar cpu performance

across the board the laptops with the

GTX 960 are the best performers between

them they're too close to really say

which one is the winner

maybe the GS63 but they're all really

powerful now thermally the laptops with

the weaker cards are going to produce

less heat and have quite a fan's the

MacBook and the XPS15 are the most

quiet when they're under load the razor

blade and the Aero14 are the loudest

when their gaming the 2016 MacBook

speakers can't be beat no one's making

better speakers right now and to be

honest all the windows laptop speakers

sound similar in overall quality

I mean he's so different from each other

but it's hard to really label a winner

so if the 2016 MacBook has first place

the 2015 MacBook has second place and

maybe the razor blade for third place

none of them are bad though in general

battery life isn't going to be amazing

on laptops like these skylake processors

are reasonably energy efficient but when

you take a quad-core CPU and you put

into a thin and light chassis you can

only expect so much the 2015 15 inch

MacBook Pro has the best battery life

it's an older processor but it has a big

battery and mac OS is pretty

energy-efficient of the windows laptops

the UX501 is the longest lasting here

the XPS 15 when it's configured with the

big battery is also pretty good

okay in terms of value none of these

laptops are going to be particularly

cheap they're all premium in some way or

another I think the best value overall

would be the msi GS63 you're

getting really good performance for the

price now whether or not you need or

even want that kind of performance of

something else but it delivers really

good bang for the buck the UX 501 is

also pretty well priced with its 4k

screen and a used or refurbished 2015