Winner: Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch) Value and configurations On the same test, the Blade 15 lasted 6 hours and 2 minutes. After it continuously surfed the web over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness, the MacBook's battery clocked in at 10 hours and 55 minutes. The Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch) is the battery-life king. Winner: Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch) Battery Life It was like comparing a smartphone speaker to a soundbar. To top it off, the MacBook's speakers were twice as loud as the Blade 15's. When the instruments joined together in the chorus, I could distinguish them on the MacBook, whereas they sounded like a muddy mess on the Blade 15. The cymbals that followed were harsh on the Blade 15, but they were appropriately bright on the MacBook. The option for an Intel Core i9 processor with six cores and a clock-speed ceiling of 4.8GHz makes its way to the 2018 refresh of Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro (starts at 2,399 4,699 as tested).

While the vocals were crisp on the Blade 15, the MacBook offered the depth that brought the song to life. The Blade 15 barely highlighted the drums, but they sounded bright and lively on the MacBook. The MacBook's speakers, by contrast, hypnotized me with their accurate highs and mids. I listened to Starsailor's 'Way to Fall,' and the opening guitar was bright and sharp on the Blade 15. This bout was easier than most, as the Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch) offers some of the best laptop speakers around right now the Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition's speakers are incredibly bad by comparison. Winner: Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch) Audio Packed with an Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 GPU, the Blade 15 nailed 54 frames per second on the Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark (Very High, 1080p), crushing the MacBook Pro's AMD Radeon Pro 5500M GPU, which hit 24 fps.

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