The Spectre x360 that I tested costs $1,799. The starting model of the Spectre x360 15 costs $1,479 and is outfitted with an Intel Core i7-8565U processor, an Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD and a non-OLED 4K display. But that runtime still doesn't come close to the MacBook Pro's.īoth of these machines are relatively configurable, but the 15-inch MacBook Pro is a lot more expensive. So when we continuously ran through episodes of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix at 150 nits of brightness, the Spectre x360 OLED lasted 8 hours and 40 minutes. However, the good thing about OLED panels is that whenever a pixel is black, that pixel effectively shuts down and conserves power. MORE: Laptops with Best Battery Life - Longest Lasting Laptop Batteries On the Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi), the MacBook Pro survived 10 hours and 20 minutes, which is nearly 3 hours longer than the Spectre x360's 7 hours and 46 minutes.
When we ran the OpenGL portion of the Cinebench R15 benchmark, which measures graphics performance, the MacBook Pro scored 106 fps, while the Spectre x360 fell behind, at 91 fps.įor two laptops with high-res displays, the MacBook Pro and Spectre x360 both have commendable battery life - but the MacBook wins this round by a landslide. That surpasses the MacBook Pro (AMD Radeon Pro 560X GPU), which averaged 84 fps on 1650 x 1050 and 73 fps on 2048 x 1280. When it came to graphics, the Spectre x360's Nvidia GeForce MX150 actually came out on top, nailing 118 frames per second on the Dirt 3 benchmark (Medium, 1080p). When the Spectre x360's 1TB copied 4.97GB of data, it did so at a sluggish rate of 424 MBps. The Spectre x360's body also has sharp, diamond-cut edges that make it stand out more than the MacBook Pro's soft, curved corners.Īpple's 2TB SSD crushed it, producing write speeds of 2,600 megabytes per second and read speeds of 2,724 MBps on the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. On the other hand, the Spectre x360's Dark Ash Silver breaks the common color palette of many premium notebooks and even adds sleek copper luxe accents. The MacBook Pro's Space Gray design is elegant, but it's starting to show its age. Two Thunderbolt 3, one USB Type-A, HDMI, headphone jack, a microSD card slotĭark Ash Silver (Poseidon Blue available)īoth the Spectre x360 and MacBook Pro sport premium aluminum designs, but each laptop has a unique style.
Nvidia GeForce MX150 (GTX 1050 Ti available)ĪMD Radeon 560X (Radeon Pro 555X available)
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