The battle between Razer Blade 15 Vs MacBook Pro is pretty tough and close in 2019. Both laptop have near scoring while one over takes the other in few parameters. In the sections that follow below, you can find the an honest review about both the laptops.
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Though Razer had a different set of products, its new Razer Blade 15 has light weight and looks great with its new features. Features of Razer Blade 15 like design, appearance and performance makes it touch choice to choose between Razer Blade 15 and MacBook Pro.
Design
Razer Blade 15 looks like a black MacBook Pro with sleek lines and trimmed bezels than its predecessors. It has a seamless looking display. The MacBook Pro looks beautiful in design with its silver paint. Its thinner and lighter than Razer Blade 15. A MacBook Pro has three to four C type USB Ports. Razer Blade 15 has single C Type Thunderbolt port, three A type USB 3.1 ports. It also HDMI and Mini Display port for connecting external display. The Razer Blade 15 has excellent keyboard compared to MacBook Pro. The touch bar of MacBook Pro has no wide usage so far.
Performance.
Razer Blade 15 has more powerful machine than MacBook Pro. Blade 15 has eighth generation Intel Core i7 8750H CPU with 16GM RAM. It has Nividia GTX 1060 Max-Q graphics card, with 1080 IPS Monitor. You can addCTS 1070 Graphics card. You can also opt for 4K and you can also expand with external GPU. The MacBook Pro has seventh generation Intel Core i7 CPU, 16 GB RAM. It has no dedicated graphics card. You can opt to upgrade CPU clock speed and add Radeon Pro Graphics card. Like all Pro versions, MacBook Pro have high resolution 2880 x 1800 pixel display.
Storage Capacity
The MacBook Pro offers higher storage capacity up to 2 TB while Blade 15 provides up to 512 GB of PCle storage.
Portability
The Razer Blade 15 is heavier than MacBook Pro, though the difference is not much. Blade Blade 15 weighs 4.56 pounds where as MacBook Pro weighs 4.02 pounds. If you are carrying your laptop around daily, this difference does look significant.
Battery Performance
Though Razer Blade 15 has heavy battery than MacBook Pro, it has could not outperform MacBook Pro, where Apple has claims of 10 hours of operation.
Graphics And Gaming
Blade 15 has high computing power with its eighth generation six-core processor. It out performs MacBook Pro in continuous stream and gaming power.
From the features listed above, MacBook Pro has great appearance, better battery and light in weight. When it comes to performance, computing and usage Blade 15 out performs on over all scoring. But the die hard fans of Apple products still prefer to have MacBook Pro.
