![]() The XPS 13’s touchpad is a Microsoft Precision version, and it supports Windows 11’s multitouch gestures with precision. The MacBook Air M1’s touchpad is pressure-sensitive and provides precise cursor control across the entire surface. The MacBook Air M1 utilizes Apple’s Force Touch haptic touchpad, and it’s large and far more advanced than the smaller mechanical version on the XPS 13. It’s the best keyboard you’ll find on any laptop today. The MacBook’s keyboard is light, springy, and incredibly precise and responsive. ![]() The MacBook Air M1, though, incorporates Apple’s Magic Keyboard, which has less travel than the XPS 13’s but equally comfortable keycaps and space and even better switches. The switches are consistent across the keyboard, providing a confident bottoming action with a precise click. The XPS 13 has one of the better keyboards among Windows laptops, with big enough keycaps and excellent key spacing. ![]() Both are good-looking laptops, but we think the XPS 13 stands out a bit more. The XPS 13 is also very clean and simple, with two colors, Sky and Umber, and tiny bezels that give it a modern look and feel. That doesn’t mean it’s boring - you can choose from three colors: Space Gray, gold, and silver. It retains the wedge shape that the newest MacBook Air gives up, and it exudes quiet elegance. Both laptops enjoy hinges that allow the display to be opened with one hand, while the XPS 13 incorporates a dual hinge that’s remarkably fluid.Īesthetically, the MacBook Air M1 presents a simpler appearance, being a single color throughout other than the black keycaps. It retains the same solid construction and rivals the MacBook Air. The XPS 13 has a new all-aluminum design that drops the carbon fiber from previous generations. It feels like a fusion of glass and metal in hand, with no twisting, bending, or flexing. It’s the same unibody construction from CNC machined aluminum with as solid a build quality as you’ll find on a laptop today. The MacBook Air M1 is essentially unchanged in its design from its Intel-based predecessor. Design Mark Coppock/Digital Trends / Digital Trends The XPS 13 is considerably less expensive, though. It maxes out at $1,450 for a Core i7-1250U, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a touch display.īoth laptops are affordable at the entry level for premium laptops, and both get a bit more expensive when configured more robustly. The XPS 13 entry-level is also $999, with a Core i5-1230U CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and a non-touch display. The Dell XPS 15 has one major advantage over the MacBook Pro This deal knocks $250 off the 13-inch MacBook Air with M1īest Labor Day MacBook Deals 2023: MacBook Air and MacBook Pro However, you can often find the MacBook Air M1 for a lot less, meaning that if you shop around it can be a real bargain. At the high end, you’ll spend $1,999 for 16GB of RAM and a 2GB SSD. The MacBook Air M1 starts at the Apple Store at $999 for an eight-core CPU/seven-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD).
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