

If you want to spend around a grand on a single Windows machine, you can get a Lenovo Ideapad Y700, a 15.6-inch gaming-ready laptop with an Nvidia GeForce graphics card, a touch screen, and a 1-terabyte hard drive for $945.Īn increasing number of Windows laptops offer an option that Apple reserves for the $1,800-and-up version of its MacBook Pro: biometric login. For that money you could buy a Dell Inspifor $180-and four more for your friends. The cheapest Mac laptop-a 13-inch Air-costs around $999. The world of Windows can also offer a significant price advantage. Other models offer interesting interfaces ranging from various styluses to Microsoft's pucklike Dial. They come in various formats, some featuring a keyboard that folds flat behind the screen (such as the Lenovo Flex 4) on others (like the Microsoft Surface Book) the keyboard can be detached to let you use its touch screen as a tablet. The most interesting end of the PC business: two-in-one, or convertible, laptops. On the Windows side, however, multiple manufacturers ship entire categories of computers Apple doesn't even make. Buying a Mac is easy: Only one company makes them, and Apple doesn't even try to fill every product niche.
