MacBook Pro Alternative

alastair79

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A lad in the office has just bought a MacBook Pro Retina which is simply stunning, and well, so it should be for the £3000 plus price he paid for it. My question; is there a genuine alternative to this colossal price tag hardware or is the future green, juicy and financed?



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Not really, no.

The closest you'll get will be the Gigabye U2442 series, or some of the Sony VIAO models. There's not anything directly comparable though sadly.
 
If you want something to wow your mates then no there probably isn't.

If you have a specific task in mind, then there could well be.
 
The Asus Zenbook UX32VD-DB71 is about as close as you'll get (With the silver trim).

Downsides:
SSD cache rather than full SSD (Or at least the option of one)
Ethernet is provided through a USB adapter thingy.

The price is a lot better though. You could easily fit a 512GB SSD in there for less money than the Macbook Pro.

Edit: The X1 looks nice, but has it's own drawbacks. Certainly good vfm though.
 
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alastair79 said:
This Lenovo X1 Carbon is almost perfect:

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x1-carbon/

Only issue is it only has the Intel 4000 Graphics Card and not the secondary Nvidia with HDMI out like the MacBook. But it's a business specific laptop I suppose, shame.




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Yamahahahahaha said:
The Asus Zenbook UX32VD-DB71 is about as close as you'll get (With the silver trim).

Downsides:
SSD cache rather than full SSD (Or at least the option of one)
Ethernet is provided through a USB adapter thingy.

The price is a lot better though. You could easily fit a 512GB SSD in there for less money than the Macbook Pro.

Edit: The X1 looks nice, but has it's own drawbacks. Certainly good vfm though.
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Both of those are more a match for the MacBook Air than the MacBook Pro though?
 
Yamahahahahaha said:
The Asus Zenbook UX32VD-DB71 is about as close as you'll get (With the silver trim).

Downsides:
SSD cache rather than full SSD (Or at least the option of one)
Ethernet is provided through a USB adapter thingy.

The price is a lot better though. You could easily fit a 512GB SSD in there for less money than the Macbook Pro.

Edit: The X1 looks nice, but has it's own drawbacks. Certainly good vfm though.
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I agree this is the closest you will get to a macbook, but the screen and speed are nowhere near as good as a MacBook.

So to answer your question: NO
 
You don't need to spend £3k to get one, £2060 will get you a MBP Retina 2.6ghz with 16gb.
 
GeX said:
where creative == fraudulent?
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I highly doubt a few reduced priced macbook pro sales will dent a market cap of $65b. If they don't ask for proof of enrolment within a HE institution during checkout then their loss as far as I'm concerned :)
 
I was looking at the Retina displays in PC world today, I'm not sure if it's really worth the huge price increase compared to standard laptops though.
 
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