The article highlights Acer's $679.99 Swift 3 as representative of a new class of MBP killers. Probably worth repeating these cons from the top Amazon review for that model:<p><i>Not as magical as it seems at first</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1UD14VWM1Z6IJ/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1UD14VWM1Z6IJ/</a><p>- "The screen is as bad as they say, even after calibration. It's only slightly better than my old laptop I bought for $350 a few years ago."<p>- "I have problems with apps being fuzzy (not scaling to the display properly), problems with Cortana and the Windows Start menu, and problems with the screen not immediately waking from sleep."<p>- "The BIGGEST CON by far is the thermals. The laptop has amazing specs as I mentioned above, but it can't use them to their full potential because the components get too hot and have to cut back on speed. The fans are noisy and run at full speed often. I regularly experience temps of 70°+ while web browsing, and 90°+ while (light) gaming or other more intensive tasks."
The problem with a lot of these is they don't run MacOS natively. Maybe it's great hardware (as is a $2200 thinkpad if you buy one now), but I'm not going to use Windows 10 for my mobile workstation.
Found this to be fairly click-baity.<p>If it doesn’t run MacOS natively, it won’t affect my purchase decision or that of, for instance; the thousands of people in my fields of iOS development and Logic/Final Cut users.<p>I run a hackintosh for fun, but I’d never purchase a non-Apple laptop to do iOS development on.<p>It’s a cliche, but ‘just works’ is very important when I need to support a new iOS version and don’t want to worry about upgrades.<p>People who buy MacBook Pros are likely buying them specifically for a set of specific use cases.<p>Furthermore, the upcoming speed increases and cost decreases that come from the ARM switch should make this fairly irrelevant.<p>Also, it’s slightly pedantic, but he talked about the ‘killers’ and then only provided one example. They could have at least provided more than one comparative set of statistics.