Tested: The $ 1,500 Dell XPS 15, compared with $ 1,500 MacBook Pro 13

Double opponent: MacBook Pro 13

is used for this MacBook Pro 13 clash is the current model 2015 with a core i5-5257U dual-core processor, 8GB LPDDR3 / 1866 and 256GB PCIe disk. Even rolling 5th generation processor (Broadwell) Intel, I did not choose this architecture to deliver the Mac at a disadvantage. The simple fact is Apple just put out its first laptop with a current processor from Intel Skylake, and the 12-inch MacBook has no business in this fight.

That aside, the 13 MacBook Pro design has a beautiful screen, very good keyboard and the "strength" of the trackpad. It's pretty much what you would expect from a premium product at a higher price. There is no discrete graphics in the MacBook Pro 13, but it is an Intel package Iris Pro 6100. All told, this notebook costs $ 1,500 at the time of this writing.

Quad opponent: Dell XPS 15

the latest generation of Dell XPS 15 gets an "infinite" decorative treatment on your screen. It has a quad-core processor i7-67700HQ core, 8GB DDR4 / 2133 RAM, GeForce GTX 960m and 256GB SSD PCIe NVMe. It does not feel as solid as the MacBook Pro does, but have a decent quality of construction with a decent trackpad. The screen on this device is a 1920x1080 IPS with anti-reflective coating. This is normal, but it is clear that the MacBook Pro 13 to the screen is more elegant with its higher pixel density and shiny surface.

Dell offers the same laptop with various settings, but this is probably the best bang for the buck. At a price of $ 1,500, you get a PCIe SSD, while the cheaper configuration, use hard drives. This is a deal breaker for many, or at least should be. You can get a touch UltraHD 4K and more SSD, but they significantly increase the cost.

Best for $ 1.500

Because the original surface of the focus of my book against the MacBook Pro was the speech of the story, I will not compare the ports or the screen and the quality of the speakers. It is about how to hit the ball you get for $ 1500. This is a "pro" category, in the end, the people who really need all the CPU and GPU performance they can get a laptop that can be your everyday driver .

Geekbench performance Pro 3 multi-core

Geekbench Pro 3 Test actually originated on the Macintosh, but since it was ported to Android, MO and Windows. I'm not entirely sold on its use as a cross-platform comparison test and, in fact, is quite controversial. But when you compare the same processor architecture on Windows and OSX, it seems to be less prone to shouting that erupt in all fairness that it scans and how it relates to the actual computing.

Here is the result of a multi-core test: the difference clock speed of the dual-core Broadwell MacBook Pro 13 and Skylake chips Dell XPS 15, but we can see a good level between the two cores and four cores here.

Performance Cinebench R15

Cinebench R15 is a popular rendering test, which got its start on the Amiga. This test "real world" is the same mechanism used in the company's product MAXON Cinema 4D. free CPU tests test PC performance to render a scene, and she loves the processor cores. Play more to it, and you get a higher score.

No wonder: How Geekbench, the design does not contribute to a quad in the XPS 15 on dual-core MacBook Pro 13.

 Performance Blendermulti-platform detection and Windows OSX, testing can be difficult, but an open source Blender one convenient test. This popular free 3D application that was used to obtain the effects of many independent films. For this test, I downloaded version 2.77a file and reference Blender ran Mike Pan BMW in both laptops. Blender allows the processor to render the scene, or opt for a faster GPU rendering, too. I tested the two.interesting party processor: Dell XPS 15 even faster, a good clip, but we see much less extent, from the XPS 15 with the MacBook Pro 13. Therefore, for people who use Blender, spending more cores can not provide the performance you expect.Go to the GPU, but you can see a huge performance gain, as GeForce GTX 960m in Dell lunching two quad-core and dual-core Intel and chips. When I tried to run it on a MacBook Pro 13 Iris Pro 6100 graphics, is bombed. Perhaps reworking that could help, but looking at the results in Blender Blenchmark.com I do not see any results, presented by Intel IGP. This tells me that this test can be beyond Intel graphics.In any case, Dell XPS 15 once again destroys MacBook 13.

Performance Cinebench OpenGL

As you can see from the Blender, the world is not just about the processor. To drive home that point I also started in the Cinebench OpenGL test. The results are predictable: While the Dell XPS 15, can offer twice the CPU performance on MacBook Pro 13, your GPU performance three times the MacBook. Yes, we are talking about a discrete GeForce GTX 960m with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory vs. integrated, but these are the cards that are dealt graphics.

And no, Apple, in fact, do not offer the MacBook Pro 13 with discrete graphics. It is only available in more expensive MacBook Pro 15 versions.

Performance Tomb Raider

The second ran graphic test was the game Tomb Raider. In this game, it is even better to knock down. MacBook Pro 13 is not really pushing the minimum level of 60 frames per second even at low graphics settings ambition: We're talking the usual 1280x800 resolution and MacBook Pro 13 in the sub-30 frames per second. It is not good. Consider: GeForce GTX 960m> Iris Pro 6100 and the XPS 15> MacBook Pro 13.

Battery performanceFor the most part, any logical person can see the Dell XPS 15 hit MacBook Pro 13 up and down the field than any related performance. One area that I expected to get around was the battery life. To check if we are playing 4K video via iTunes 10 movies and TV player Mac and Windows on the PC, with a twinkle 250-260 nits and related inserts.That's where all this equipment in the Dell XPS 15 has its. MacBook Pro 13 has a huge advantage in the run time, some of them from Apple, both packed in capacity possible portable battery. The MacBook 13 operates at 76 watts-hour cell compared with a battery of 56-watt-hour 15 Dell XPS.Dell does not offer a big capacity of 84 watt-hour battery. It is basically a 50 percent battery capacity increase, which is probably converted to maybe 480 minutes of time in our test. It's better, but still not enough time to run the MacBook Pro 13.Dell Supporters can also be argued that you can run an external battery, which is likely to take the XPS 15 last, the MacBook Pro 13. Do not go there. The more the battery is not available at a lower cost XPS 15 configuration, and that the external battery more things to carry, and the choice is $ 120. In the end, MacBook Pro 13 battery run-down test win handily. Suga-the XPS 15 fans: Is Mac watches have clean everywhere. You can let it go.

conclusionOnly in the event that the various tests, I just ran him over did not convince him, I'll let you down: $ 1500 Dell XPS 15 destroyed $ 1.500 MacBook Pro 13 in everything related to the performance with his one Achilles heel just be a ho-hum life battery.This should not come as a surprise to you. Quad, is faster than the dual-core to everything that uses these kernels. And any integrated GPU graphics competence smokes so much that is illegal in California.If these results were unexpected? Not from me. This platform is placed.It turns out that, yes, that $ 2,700 is heavier, bigger MacBook Pro 15 will have really hit the surface of the stupid book on performance-related issues. The same argument cuts the other way: $ 1500 Dell XPS 15 washes the snot out of the $ 1500 MacBook Pro 13, we just proved.So maybe, just maybe, that the comparison between the book and the surface of the MacBook Pro over the previous year was the right way to run this confrontation.