PRO’s:
Battery life: Laptops other than a MAC do not even come close to the battery life output of a MAC. Casual web-browsing, music streaming and documentation would not drain your battery and will easily get you through a day. If you keep brightness of the screen low, it might last even more.
Screen: the Retina display on this is fabulous. Color is a little off than the standard shade but clarity is on point.
Unibody Metal Construction: the metal case of the laptop itself is amazing and gives it a really solid feel. It is a bit heavy when compared to a Macbook Air but if it’s in your backpack, you’ll forget that it is even there.
Force Touch Trackpad: you won’t find anything like this in the market. It’s one of the main reasons for me to buy this laptop. No more left and right click nonsense involved. Click anywhere and your work shall be done. And it is very responsive.
Processor: 5th gen core i5 keeps it running fairly smooth. Coming from a Windows laptop with core i7 I did not see too much of a difference in computation speeds. But yes apps do open and close faster due to the super fast SSD.
Static State Drive(SSD) Storage: This machine has the fastest SSD ever made and it is effing awesome! I transferred over 90GB of data from my external hard drive in a little less than 3 minutes. The same thing on a conventional HDD laptop would easily take 10-15 minutes or more. Also, the booting up of the laptop is blazing fast. Apps open up super quick and file transfer within the internal storage happen within fractions of a second.
Ports: I wish it had 3 USB Ports but sadly it has only 2. It also has 2 Thunderbolt ports which I haven’t made use of as of now. Has other standard inclusions like HDMI, Headphone jack, SDXC card slot.
Cons:
the only major drawback of using this laptop is it’s KEYBOARD. It really sucks. The keys feel really cheap and the feedback was not satisfactory either. I put a silicone cover for the keyboard which has improved things but it is nowhere close to keyboards made by HP and Lenovo.
If you’re planning on getting a new machine, and if you’re currently on windows, I would suggest you first try out a Macbook if any of your friends have it. Windows is a lovely OS and is as good as MAC OS, if not better. But sadly Microsoft doesn’t build laptops themselves and what manufacturers like HP, DELL, Lenovo, etc put out do not come close to this.
Currently, the only Windows laptop which is being compared to this laptop is the Dell XPS13. That is a great laptop as well but if I’m not mistaken it is much pricier than this laptop.
NOTE: Once you start using a Macbook, you won’t go back to Windows. Not at least till the time Microsoft makes a solid Macbook competitor to match the hardware performance.
P.S. You have the option of dual-booting your Mac with Windows if you really do need Windows on your machine. My suggestion - don’t. Stick to the native OS and don’t mess around with something which is already well capable of handling all your day-to-day tasks.
Just buy it, the price might be a hindrance but the laptop will not disappoint. I promise
OVERALL MUST BUY!