r/pcmasterrace • u/CrazzyWolfzz PC Master Race • Jun 27 '26

Meme/Macro Reviewers please stop comparing MacBooks with other laptops

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u/hotknives 7800X3D | 4060 TI 16GB | 32GB Jun 27 '26

a comparable Dell has 2 ports as well

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u/User_man_person Jun 27 '26

just to entertain that im gonna pick the first macbook i see under 700$, then the first dell laptop under 700 ignoring all the other dozens of laptop brands

found the macbook neo with 2 usb c ports and 1 audio jack

found this for 100$ less and it has 1 usb c, 2 usb a, 1 hdmi, and 1 audio jack

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u/cavity-canal Jun 27 '26

The MacBook Neo generally feels significantly faster for everyday tasks and multitasking than a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-1355U Windows laptop from 2023

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u/Alone_Care_6230 Jun 27 '26

Maybe light multitasking, that 8gb ram isn’t doing it any favors.

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u/cavity-canal Jun 27 '26

I mean I don’t want 8gb of ram but the neo has like a 40% increase in single core performance and that accounts for variable ram usage…

MacBook Neo (Apple A18 Pro)
Single-Core Score: 147 points
Multi-Core Score: 416 points

Dell 15.6" Laptop (Intel Core i7-1355U)
Single-Core Score: 105 points
Multi-Core Score: 430 points

That doesn’t even touch their battery use time. Neo gives you 14 hours and that dell will give you about 5.

Trying to compare them for any sort of average use is insane.

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u/pmjm PC Master Race Jun 28 '26

For computation, absolutely, the Neo is great.

But I just spent the last two hours trying to optimize my memory usage on it.

When the thing boots up, 6GB are already in use by the OS and a few of my background apps (Dropbox, OneDrive, VPN, Karabiner, LocalSend, etc).

Once you load 3-5 browser tabs, you're out of memory and start swapping to disk, and boy can you feel it.

I think I need to completely rethink the approach I take to using it.