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Old Feb 13, 2016 | 2:39 pm
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Originally Posted by deniah
you said you dont want to get an apple.... but you can get a macbook air 11" and install windows on it. and it'll run better than any other machines that still exist in this class
Meh; it's not much smaller than the XPS 13 or the Lenovo X250 (or X260 soon) and both are cheaper in comparable configurations and much faster, and it has a major shortage of ports, and it's 4x as expensive as the HP and 2x the price of the little Lenovo or 2x-3x the little Dell depending on configuration.

Worth it if you want a tiny MacOS machine, but I really don't get the appeal of getting Apply hardware and then running boot camp -- second-rate experience compared to MacOS on the hardware, and second-rate experience compared to a machine engineered to run Windows.
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