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> you are not Apple's target audience anymore

recently researched dozens of Windows notebooks and I found two reasons why the new Macbooks might be still for developers:

- Only notebooks which can drive 2x 5k displays + the internal, there is no Windows notebook which can do this; and having two ultra sharp 27" 5k displays is something that might be attractive for developers

- the new MBP 15 is the lightest quad-core 15" machine by far, also not the worst thing

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Developers is a broad term. "drive 2x 5k displays + the internal" might be appealing, in the same way that gloves are appealing to car drivers.

Maybe your developer archetype is too specific. #NotAllDevelopers

The only competing option to the 15" is the XPS 15, and it looks like (judging by the non-touchbar) Apple is going to stomp Dell in battery life in the high res configuration.

The battery life is "good enough" for both of them... besides developers do not necessarily require fantastic battery life.

When I buy a laptop I don't just care about the battery life it has now - but also about the one three years later. Actually, these days I'll probably keep a laptop for five years, the desktop even longer, since there just is no compelling reason to buy something new sooner. So I want the battery to be good for me even when it's only half the initial capacity.

The ability to connect two 5K monitors is sure to sell a ton of units. /s

The number of people buying the much more expensive 5K monitors instead of the already great 4K monitors is rather small. That's why there are only three different 5K monitor models on the market.

Mhm, have you looked at the Razer Blade, or the Razer Blade Stealth? I'm very certain that the bundled in NVIDIA 10XX will power through.

Company has a very poor track record with supporting reasonable operating systems, the build quality is notably sub-par on older editions of the laptop and the support is apparently awful.

I don't think I will be citing this as an example of "something to compete with apple"

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