You can usually assume that great build quality and good battery life are givens. You tend to know what you are getting with Apple portable, too.
As a physical object, the crazy-thin 12- inch MacBook is probably the single most gorgeous portable computer yet conceived. And when it comes to perceived quality, the best MacBooks are peerless.
The MacBook line is certainly more up to date technologically than Apple’s tiring Mac Pro product, for instance. However, MacBooks needn’t be the absolute best in every category to remain relevant. What is the best laptop in the world? Quite often, the answer to that question has been some MacBook. However, when the new Mac Pro arrives next year, it could be a very different story. For that alone, the PC deserves a marginal victory. It’s far more innovative as a content creation device than anything Apple has done for years-the touch bar on the latest MacBook Pros doesn’t come close. Macs also look rather old hat with the arrival of Microsoft’s Surface Studio, and its intriguing form factor and input solutions. In short, if you want to render in a hurry, choose a PC. Apple’s Mac Pro workstation is staggering on with ancient hardware. On the other hand, whenever performance is a critical part of the package, Macs fall behind. But many people certainly do prefer the software packages and GUI of Mac in a creative context. Exactly how much better or worse Macs are for creating content is quite a subjective subject. Although that rings faintly ludicrous when you consider its puritanical policing of software in its app store, there’s no doubting that generations of content creators have favored Macs. Apple has long styled itself as existing at the intersection between liberal arts and technology. Until then, it’s PC all day long, and thrice on Sundays. In that scenario, dual-booting a Mac into Windows via Boot Camp might make a decent part-time gaming rig.
Apple says the new model will major on configurability, so it’s just possible that we may finally have a desktop Mac with some reasonable upgrade chops.