So, above, I tried to break it down on individual category wins (e.g., display, sound) as every user looks for features that are important to them. The new 16-inch MBP is scary-good too and the best MacBook Apple has ever made. It costs less and you get an amazing OLED display to boot. That said, more testing is required for the MBP 16, which I’ve been using for less than a week.ĭell wins on bang for buck.
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If you dial back the screen brightness and stay away from games and movies, you can squeeze a full day from both laptops. For large-screen laptops packed with power-hungry components, they offer longer battery life than I expected. Based on anecdotal testing of my usage scenarios, they seem to be pretty close.
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The 16-inch MacBook Pro design is an improvement over the 15-inch because of the smaller bezels = better screen to body ratio.ĭell’s design is getting long in the tooth but its carbon fiber palm rest falls into the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” category. The thickness of both laptops is pretty much the same.ĭesign comes down to personal preference. Despite boasting a bigger display and longer (front to back) chassis, it’s lighter at 4.3 pounds versus the XPS’ 4.5 pounds. Dell’s isn’t as accurate and sometimes takes a few tries and sometimes forces you to enter a PIN to sign in because it fails to recognize your fingerprint.Ĭhassis / weight / design: Apple wins on weight, Dell on materialsĪpple wins on weight. However, since neither the MBP 16* nor the XPS 15 have Face ID, you have to rely on the fingerprint sensor. I think all laptops should have both Face and fingerprint ID. The XPS 15 sound is good but, again, the MBP 16 is in another league.
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If sound matters to you, it’s reason enough to buy the new MBP. The 16-inch MBP delivers room-filling sound with the most fulsome, undistorted bass I’ve ever heard in a laptop. On Geekbench 4, the MBP 16 CPU test is showing Single-Core scores of around 5,400 and Multi-Core scores of roughly 28,000.ĭell’s XPS 7590 Geekbench 4 CPU scores are similar. The performance of the MacBook Pro’s AMD Pro 5500M graphics chip is up to 2x better than the old Radeon RX 560X putting it in the same league as the Nvidia GTX 1650 mobile GPU (on the XPS 15).Īnd the two machines are pretty evenly matched on CPUs. But it isn’t OLED, which is why, no matter how good Apple’s LCD is, it won’t top the XPS 15. It’s probably one of the best LCD displays out there and the hardware supports up to two 6K displays. The 16-inch MacBook Pro’s display has a wide DCI-P3-rated color gamut (97 percent), 100 percent of sRGB, and 91 percent Adobe RGB. Testing has also shown that the DCI-P3 color coverage is 97.6 percent and sRGB is 99 percent.Īnd Dell’s display is 4K, Apple still isn’t quite there. Dell also claims 100 percent coverage of the Adobe RGB color space.
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All of the above is why the world’s best smartphones now sport AMOLED displays.ĭell claims an astronomical 100,000:1 contrast ratio. Colors pop, blacks are really black, contrast is astronomically higher, and AMOLEDs offer the potential for extending battery life by turning off pixels in dark mode.
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In short, Dell’s OLED wins.ĪMOLED displays are a very different animal from LCDs. For Dell because it comes with a drop-dead gorgeous AMOLED display. For Apple, obviously because it’s upped the display size to 16 inches from 15.4 inches and shrunk the bezels in the process.