Not to mention that macOS has benefits over Windows 10.īut come on, if you’re the average consumer, how could you pass up the Swift 3 over the MacBook Pro? The Acer Swift 3 has beastly overall performance, longer battery life, a sweet keyboard, better frame rates ideal for light gaming, a greater variety of ports, modern bezels and an all-metal, aluminum-magnesium chassis (save for a tinge of plastic around the display) - all for just $649. If you’re an on-the-go audio engineer or a digital illustrator, I totally get it - the MacBook Pro has superior speakers and a better display. Some people, understandably, can’t fathom dealing with Acer Swift 3’s dim display and the Apple logo takes one’s “coolness points” up a notch. Hey, no skin off my back if you truly believe that the extra $1,150 you’d pay for the MacBook Pro is worth it - it’s not coming from my bank account. The Acer Swift 3 is the winner (Image credit: Future) I can just feel my bank account sending me death glares at the very thought of purchasing the MacBook Pro - that Apple tax is real. And is it even worth it? Excluding GPU power, the difference in performance between a low-end 8th Gen Intel CPU and a low-end 10th Gen Intel CPU is minimal, as David Lee eloquently pointed out. Perhaps someone can explain why MacBook Pro’s base model is configured with a CPU that is obsolete by two generations, but is priced at $1,300? To get a current-generation CPU, you’ll have to shell out an extra $500. Let’s talk about Apple’s high-priced star for a second. This can be configured with up to a 10th Gen Core i7 CPU, 32GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD.
For $1,799, you can get a 10th Gen Intel Core i5 quad-core processor with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and Intel Iris Plus Graphics. This base model can be configured with up to an 8th Gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. (Image credit: Future)Īs for the latest 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro, an entry-level model will set you back $1,299 and has an 8th Gen Intel Core i5 quad-core processor with 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD and an Intel Iris Plus 645 GPU.
The Acer Swift 3 with AMD Ryzen 7 4700U CPU costs $649.
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