Shocking as this intelligence may be , not everybody uses a Mac ( * elicit hand * ) . For those of us not drinking the Cupertino Koolaid , here are 5 solid alternatives to the new product from today ’s Apple declaration .
The Series 9 is like the MBA , just slenderly large . Unfortunately that includes the price as well . For $ 1199 — what you ’d yield for a 2.38 lb . , 11.6″ MBA with 4 GB of retentivity and 128 GB SSD — you get a 2.31 lb . 11.6″ laptop computer with 2 GB of computer memory and only a 64 GB SSD . The other belittled affair about Series 9 ? Its processing speed : 1.33GHz vs the MBA ’s 1.6GHz . $ 1200
In terms of performance for price , the R835 founder you more value . It has a 2.3GHz processor , 4 GB of RAM , and 640 GB HD , double the usable RAM and triple the available standard HD in the last looping of the MB ( before , you know , Apple pop it and all ) for $ 65 less . $ 835
Sure the Mini is n’t technically design as an HTPC but some of its good body of work is done as a home theatre of operations - dish up field hockey hockey puck . The Dell Zino does fundamentally the same job , albeit as two stacked hockey hockey puck . It ’s got the same basic stats as the Mini , 2.3GHz central processing unit and 2 GB of RAM , but the Zino is double the height so as to make elbow room for the tray - loading CD / DVD / Blu - Ray combo drive . On the other hand , at $ 300 , the Zino is half the Mini ’s peak in money . $ 300
Thunderbolt has a information transferee amphetamine of 10Gb / s. USB 3.0 has a maximal information transfer speed of 5 Gb / s. It ’s half but available on thing that do n’t startle with Mac . What more do you want ? ( effigy courtesy ofMaximum PC ) $ bet on what it ’s attached to
The Thunderbolt video display ’s 27″ viewing domain with 2560 - by-1440 LED - backlit resoluteness and power to daisy - mountain range peripherals is just glorious . But if you do n’t really give a Irish bull about string your hard drives to your monitors ( or you only have one of each and are already unite through your information processing system ) then you ’ll want to discipline out the Dell UltraSharp U2711 . It has a 2560 x 1440 firmness 27″ display with 80,000 - to-1 contrast ratio . And it ’s $ 100 less . $ 900
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