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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by shrimpx on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:21PM (#23070737)
The xps is a plastic laptop with a plastic hinged small trackpad. The mbp trackpad alone is worth the extra money. I keep a laptop for 4-5 years. It’s not worth interacting thousands of times a day with an outdated subpar input device to save $10 a month.

I’ve been watching the xps closely and the internal stats are good but the “plastic laptop with a small hinged trackpad” aspect of it make it a no go for me at the price point.

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by alexggordon on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:51PM (#23071809)
Per the specs on the dell website, it's a milled aluminum chassis. Guess that could technically mean there's plastic somewhere, but they seem to be selling the fact it's not plastic.
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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by woah on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:53PM (#23075537)
Through some kind of engineering magic, they've been able to make it out of thin aluminum while still retaining the creaky plastic feeling Dell is known for.
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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by shrimpx on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:14PM (#23082981)
The top shell and the bottom shell are thin aluminum but the rest of the laptop is plastic. The bottom assembly is a plastic body screwed into a thin aluminum shell. Unfortunately I don’t have a link but there are reviews on YouTube where people subject it to the “twist test” and the laptop body creaks and visibly twists under light manual force.
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