In our New MacBook Pro 2016 vs new Surface Book with Performance Base comparison we put the two laptops head to head, comparing design, build quality, features, tech specs and pricing.īest cheap MacBook deals UK New MacBook Pro 2016 vs Surface Book with Performance Base: Design and build qualityĪs you’d probably expect when comparing an Apple with a Microsoft product, this feels a little one-sided: we greatly prefer the looks of the MacBook, even though its general design has been around for a while now. But which of these attractive new high-end laptops should you buy? Is the new MacBook Pro or the new Surface Book with Performance Base the right laptop for you? The new MacBook Pro 2016 is available to buy now, again alongside last year’s models. The new Surface Book with Performance Base is available to pre-order alongside last year’s Surface Book models, which remain on sale. If so, and assuming you can’t be fobbed off with a combination of a (potentially lower-end) iPad with the MacBook – a stronger combination in many ways, albeit less convenient to tote around – then the extra money for the Surface Book will be money well spent. Ultimately, though, your decision is going to revolve around the major physical differences between these machines: do you want and need a touchscreen display and a stylus, and would you like to be able to detach the keyboard and change your laptop into a tablet? The range of software available for the Surface Book, however – and particularly its standard of integration with Microsoft’s business/productivity software products – may push business users in the other direction while designers may (continue to) prefer the software offerings of Apple and its partners, and long-term Mac fans are unlikely to be swayed from the superior security of the macOS platform. Looks-wise it’s all about the Mac, even though the Surface Book has a certain clunky charm all its own.
But these two releases, announced a day apart, are shooting for the same audience of wealthy enterprise users and creatives, so plenty of tech fans are going to be weighing up the pros and cons of each. Comparing Apples with oranges, you might say, given that Microsoft’s Surface Books are really convertible tablet/laptop hybrids rather than purestrain laptops.
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