M1 MacBook Air VS Dell XPS 15 9510! Why Pay TWICE As Much?!

Today its time to compare two of my favorite laptops of all time! The M1 MacBook Air and the Dell XPS 15 with its latest 9510 upgrade!

So what comes out on top? Is it worth paying twice as much to get the extra functionality from the Dell?

Lets find out!

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———————What Gear I Recommend!——————————

First Mac ( M1 Mac Mini)

Best Macbook (MacBook Pro 13)

Best Travel Professional Windows Laptop (XPS 15)

Best Thunderbolt 3 Dock (cal digit TS3 Plus)

Best Beginner YouTube Camera (Sony A6100)

Best Overall YouTube Camera (Lumix S5)

—————What Gear I Use!————————————————

Main Camera (I own 3 of these)

Main Lens

Secondary Lens

Main Computer

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[Evan_Rodgers]

“Everybody is making good keyboards these days”
- stares at the Surface laptop

[saktiprasadswain]

1st time we see Apple is in value for money product

[dimashevchenk]

Looks like I am a little obsessed with these m1 mac reviews...

[teunemans]

I've been with XPS for the past few years. As an engineer doing a lot of CAD work it's basically impossible to go with the M1 chip. Also features like RTX on the 9510 are a key part of my workflow for hardware accelerated rendering. I hope Apple will release a laptop with a decent GPU capable with RT cores, then in addition get more software support for my field too. I would gladly switch at that point.

[ericyim]

I used to be a Windows user and consider buying a windows laptop. After seeing the ridiculous price and weird spec matching of Dell xps, I chose to try the M1 MacBook air, and so far so good.

[dougroe]

I’m an all-Apple kind of guy, but I dig the Dell XPS honestly.. that screen to body ratio is aggressive as hell. Looks great!

[heastin]

I have owned my M1 MBA since the day it was released to the public. I went with the base model of the MBA M1 only because I had planned on using it for work. My workflow does not require me to do any graphical rendering of any kind, I actually complete my workflow through the web browser; because browsing apps have gotten so good that it does not force me to download apps. However I do have Office downloaded onto my MBA only for when I need to use my computer offline.

The other reason on why I went with the base model M1 MBA is because of the lack of fan. I hate fan noise, even if its quiet i still hate fan noise. I have had computers in the past with fans and i can have 10 tabs open in chrome and it still requires the fans to kick on. The M1 MBA, I can have as many tabs as I want open and no fan noise what so ever, and the MBA M1 still feels very cool to the touch.

The other reason on why I went with the MBA M1, is that its a typist dream to type on, and the TracPad is the best in class. Why I also went with the mBA M1 is because of the support from Apple stores. Apple retail stores offer the best in class customer care and I love that if I ever have an issue I can just walk in or set an appointment to go into one of their stores and 99.8% of the time my issue can be solved right then and there.

[VetDev]

Great reviews of both laptops and though I'm a bit late to this review, I would like to add, I've worked on dozens of XPS laptops and the two issues that they're notorious for are loud fans kicking on even though no heavy lifting is being produced and the battery life fresh off the shelf will reduce to less than a couple of hours give or take within a year, guaranteed. I will confess, the anti-glare screen that Dell uses is the best I've ever seen.

[MarbsMusic]

As I've noted, I sold my M15 and switch to an M1 MacBook Air (8/8 512) and I love it. My youngest needed a new laptop for HS, he has always used Windows but is all Apple otherwise. We ordered him a new XPS 9500 with 16/512 and the 1650 ti. He wants to play some games but will use his gaming PC for that most of the time. They had the 9500 with that config for about $1200 last week... I couldn't justify and extra $800 for an 11th Gen, 3050 and 3200 vs 2999 Mhz memory. Thus his 9500 cost almost exactly the same as my Air... will be interesting to see what we think of each once it finally gets here.

[lpmoora]

I have the first XPS with the thin bezels (4K touchscreen) bought like 5-6 years ago IIRC, and I still use it every day . These new ones have way better screens, but reading these comments sure makes me think twice about upgrading

[odosmatthews]

Why are you comparing a 15" to a 13"? Should be XPS 13.

[sagar]

Being a M1 Macbook Air user, I agreed with the suggestion, there are some use cases and sometime for doing gaming I am using my windows laptop.

[tcu]

Thanks, Dad. I got my M1 last week after watching a few of your videos. I got tired of my 2019 MacBook Pro being hot as the surface of the sun for barely doing anything. It was heavy and generally impractical.

[yashaspradeep]

I upgraded from the m1 air to the xps 15 9520 for college. Don't regret it, I still use both because they're both good at their own things.

[terencepeiwen]

Still rocking my M1 Macbook Air! Mine is upgraded to 16gb ram and is the same price as the new Dell's XPS 15 8gb 256 version. BTW bro, there is no videos to click at the end of your video..

[Techtastic]

Love your video, as a long time XPS owner (9560/i7/32G /1TB) and Mac owner I’m wondering though why you wouldn’t compare the XPS 13 to to the air and the XPS 15 vs the mb pro? …kudos on the track back issue, for that very reason I’m using the mx 2s when on the go

[EngLhag]

I get amazed on M1 performance, but I really hate Apple's keyboard. I bought my wife a mac air and I simply hate having CMD just next to the space bar to do whatever I am used to doing with Ctrl in regular keyboards. I am so used to use the pinky finger for ctrl+everything.

[nasifazmainshahad]

This is not actuallly a fair comparison cz they are different sizes(13.3 and 15.6) and even prices but you are talking about the 8/256 mackbok air for 999$..but if you spec it up to the dell xps 15 with 16/512 the mackbook air costs 1399$ and the 8 core air 1449$..also the 16/512 pro costs 1699$...go ahead and check it yourself..and maybe compare the xps 13 with the macs

[Lasershot]

Great video but I’m disappointed you just didn’t give us an approximate runtime of the battery life on the XPS simply based on your experience of using it for the days for a typical workload. Battery life is really one of those benchmarks that you don’t necessarily need any fancy test for, it’s just a user experience type of thing.

I know we have the numbers from last year’s XPS but I was curious to see if 11th gen brought some small improvements maybe.

[tonytech]

You should contact Lenovo. Their new 16-inch Thinkpad P1 and Thinkpad X1 Extreme are probably the most powerful, still compact, laptops in the Windows camp.