I'd love to buy a competitive device that's 1/2-2/3 the price of a MacBook, but I've never seen one at that price point. The models that come up in these threads usually lack a quality screen, long battery life, durable construction, or good support for Linux / unix user land tools or some combination thereof. Linux subsystem for windows may be starting to address the last point, but I haven't had the chance to use it yet.
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The closest competitors, like the XPS series and the Surface Book, are nearly as much as a Mac or more. The closest XPS 13 to the bottom touchbar 13" MBP costs $150 more. Microsoft sells $2,000+ Surface Books with only 8GB of RAM.
Am I doing this wrong? Looks like the XPS 13 with similar spec is $1,220 [1] vs. $1,800 [2] for the Macbook Touchbar?
I went to Dell.com: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-la....
It's true, the higher end windows laptops are very comparable to Macbook prices. People get confused because Macbook's are only high end and people see windows machine in a full range