Mac vs Windows - It's not close in 2026!

it's time to find out which of these lovely laptops can survive a drop i feel like i should clarify that we don't get sent these laptops every single penny i might be about to burn is my own i genuinely think this is the most expensive science experiment we have ever done three two one i freaking whacked my foot afterwards oh no three two one that was much worse dear god macbook pro please subscribe so i can buy more three two one it's so heavy that noise pro windows let's see about this military durability three two one oh kind of bounced a little bit it's like giving more yikes i see the damage okay so the macbook neo you can see it's actually pushed the entire hinge so it's actually off kilter so the lid doesn't completely cover the base and then inside oh no way everything is completely intact it just looks like you had a slightly bad haircut on the right but apart from that that's incredible genuinely scared to open the budget windows oh dear god i mean that is a dead laptop there is no work being done on this anymore

you're also practically guaranteed to get more storage when you go windows in both cases here budget and pro are same priced windows machines have literally doubled the storage of their mac counterparts so instead of the macbook neo's 256 gigs this hp has 512 and instead of the two terabytes that i managed to get on the macbook pro for my money this asus has four which is just a massive and very clear win for windows storage is one of those areas where apple makes its biggest margins so they will try to preserve that at all costs as long as those costs fall to you

assuming that the mac can do everything that you need from your computer then you will likely have a smoother experience doing so in apple's closed ecosystem like nothing to this day on windows beats the ease of air dropping from an iphone to a mac or just being able to hit copy on some text on your iphone and then without any kind of setup just paste it on your mac and also you're like me and you focus a lot on small imperfections you're much more likely to prefer the way the mac looks and feels i mean just as an example i can't find a single animation on this $600 macbook neo that isn't running at a smooth 60 frames per second whereas on the $4,500 windows the thing will still just randomly feel laggy when doing simple things

apple's new twenty twenty six macbooks have completely divided the internet there's one army who's insistent that this is our ip for windows laptops but then the other side arguing that actually windows gets you a better display more powerful chip more ram more storage basically more everything so let's settle this we've got the featherweights the $600 macbook neo versus the best $600 windows laptop from hp but then also the high end heavyweights the $4,500 new macbook pro versus the best $4,500 windows laptop we'll test them all across 12 categories to find out who reigns supreme in 2026 whatever budget you're willing to spend

you can tell that apple as a company is much more calculated they give you the bare minimum for each tier of laptop to make sure that the more expensive macbook air and the macbook pro remain as tempting as possible other companies don't really care so while the budget windows gives you a headphone jack a full size usb a port and two usb cs with every one of these ports fast enough to qualify for the usb 3.2 standard the mac is just headphone jack and two usb c's one of which is actually a slower usb two port so you'd only really want to use that for charging as opposed to hard drives or external displays

it is absolutely true what people are arguing that if you go for a mac you get a lower spec for your money like this macbook neo has eight gigabytes of ram compared to 16 on hp and even at the top end the macbook pro here has 48 gigs of ram compared to 64 on its equivalently priced windows but how much does that actually matter when you're trying to get stuff done so ram one is a test of how long does it take to get started i timed each laptop going from fully shut down to booted up logged in and ready to type into a word document and this shows a pretty clear advantage to the top end macbook pro it won by a landslide maybe this is just the insanely fast ssd speeds inside the thing

i was not expecting how much better the macbook neo's build quality is versus its hp windows equivalent like look at the hinge can you see how much give this hp has compared to the mac which pretty much only moves when you apply some proper force to it hp has some aluminum in the body but the vast majority of the parts that you interact with are plastic and that makes it feel a lot cheaper like you can push down on the body and actually see it bend with a little bit of creaking too if you lean too hard on it that is not the case with this macbook neo the entire body is machined out of one big block of aluminum and you can feel that sturdiness i can't get a squeak out of it

i was curious if the macbook's day to day performance is so much higher do you see that come at the cost of battery and to answer that question i charged each one of these laptops two fold and just let them drain while doing a controlled combination of youtube watching light gaming and video editing and this is just as much a test of chipset efficiency as it is a test of battery size because here in the world of laptops let me tell you there are enormous differences in chip power consumption something that becomes very apparent when looking at the high end windows laptop which dies at just four hours sixteen likely thanks to its rtx fifty ninety graphics card guzzling power even when it's not being pushed to its limit