MacBook versus Surface Pro 4: Battle of the ultra-lights

It’s funny, and a little humbling, to realize you’ve been doing it wrong

I mean, all this time, I was comparing the Surface Pro 4 to Apple’s giant iPad Pro. It made intuitive sense. Both have touch screens, both have detachable keyboards. Both are super thin and light. Both have multi-tasking. But I made a fundamental error. Only one of these systems runs a X86 CPU and offers a file system. One of them, the Surface Pro 4, is a personal computer and one is a powerful mobile system reaching to be the same.

When I got my hands on the latest MacBook, a follow-up to the ultra-light single-input-port MacBook launched a year ago, I realized I’d made a mistake. With its new Intel 6th Generation Core CPU, size (12-inches), weight (2 lbs.), keyboard and touchpad configuration, it’s the actually the best counter to Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4. Read more...