Apple Mac Book Pro 13 Retina vs HP Specter 13t

Apple and HP are the two known giants in the field of Laptop market. Recently on the digitaltrends.com the post compared Apple’s MacBook Pro 13 with retina display and the HP’s Specter 13t. Specter 13t from HP is the company’s most expensive ultrabook recently launched in the market, just 15mm thick and weighing around 1.5 kg. Is lighter than the Apple’s Mac Book Pro 13 with retina. The MacBook also scores in the finish and the keyboard quality, with its superior tactile feel and backlight. Apple’s touch pad has wide smooth surface and the Mac OS X offers good support for multi touch gesture.

Spectre offers two USB 3.0 ports along with HDMI , Display port, card reader and the audio-out. The MacBook also scores in this aspect as the MacBook has in addition to the two USB ports has two super-fast Thunderbolt ports, HDMI, Audio-out and the Card reader. Both support Wi-Fi but do not have the Ethernet connection.

In the field of performance they both have 4^th Gen core i5 processor but a MacBook has much better storage and better 3D performance due to the powerful Intel Iris hardware. In display also Apple has upper hand with the impressive 2560×1600 panel, the Retina display offers high resolution giving superb contrast, high brightness, and good color accuracy. The specter has the standard 1080p panel, HP’s screen supports touch, and this is the special plus point, in favor of the specter.

In the field of storage HP scores heavily. Though both Macbook and the Spectre has same 128 GB storage HP offers the possibility of an upgrade to 256 GB with extra cost. At the cost of Spectre and the cost of additional storage, the cost of the Macbook is higher.

In the zone of portability, both these laptops work on the built-in batteries that cannot be removed. HP has a four cell unit with the capacity of around 50 watt hours, and HP is smaller in size and lighter in weight than the Apple’s MacBook Pro 13. The MacBook also has a higher capacity with battery having 71.8 watt-hour. This means that the MacBook has a longer span of activity. But this advantage depends largely on the other factors like idle and near idle memory loads. In the testing of span of working Macbook Pro had twenty hours of working in Word document as against nine and half in case of Spectre. Whereas in Web browsing Spectre scored well with six hours against poor performance of just fifteen minutes as in case of Apple’s MacBook.

At the end Appl’s MacBook Pro 13 with Retina display wins over HP’s Specter 13t in the vital issues of image quality, performance and the endurance due to better display, faster hardware and longer battery life.