13’ MBP TB 2017 vs Razer Blade Stealth vs MBP nTB 2017

[Braveshock]

Hey,

Have a quick question regarding performance between MBP 13’ 2017 TB 3.1 Dual Core i5 512/16GB vs Razer Blade Stealth 13’ Quad Core i7 512/16GB and MBP 13’ nTB 2.3 Dual Core i5 512/16GB.
Could you tell me what is the performance of above laptops once you connect them to the external monitor with USB-C and which one would the the best solution regarding browsing (a lot of tabs and dekstops opened at the same time), microsoft office work, music, occasionally 1080p video rendering, mayne some AutoCAD occasionally for next 3-4 years? I and my family have iPhones and I like the ecosystem like integrity, continuity, airdrop, airplay ect but unfortunately I had bought MBP TB 2017 with 8GB of RAM and returend it because to much memory pressure. I bought MBP 2017 with 16GB of RAM and had some problem with fan noise and returend it as well (I would expect something more quite that what I had for more than 2300$). Now I’m considering if it’s worth to buy another MBP and give one more chance or check something with Windows 10 and lose the integrity with iphones.
Thanks for any help
Regards
Matt

 

[Poki]

The Razer Blade Stealth is much faster in CPU intensive tasks due to the quad-core chip. In most tasks, you should see an up to 40% faster performance according to Intel. However, the iGPU is only an HD620, compared to the Iris Plus models in the MBP, so you lose about half of the graphics performance. External GPUs are an option for both notebooks. All other parts are about equal. The TB MBP is just a small percentage faster than the nTB MBP.

If you want the fastest possible 13" notebook, you either have to wait for the MBPs with 8th gen Intel chips, or get a Windows notebook right now. If you can live with the slower CPU, you'll at least get better graphics performance with the MacBook Pro.

 

[Braveshock]

The Razer Blade Stealth is much faster in CPU intensive tasks due to the quad-core chip. In most tasks, you should see an up to 40% faster performance according to Intel. However, the iGPU is only an HD620, compared to the Iris Plus models in the MBP, so you lose about half of the graphics performance. External GPUs are an option for both notebooks. All other parts are about equal. The TB MBP is just a small percentage faster than the nTB MBP.

If you want the fastest possible 13" notebook, you either have to wait for the MBPs with 8th gen Intel chips, or get a Windows notebook right now. If you can live with the slower CPU, you'll at least get better graphics performance with the MacBook Pro.

Thanks for uour answer.
I watched some review on youtube about Razer BS and a man said that this computer even with Quad Core can handle with 1080p but cannot work smoothly with 4K. I haven't heard that 13' MBP TB cannot work with 4K.
I'm still considering Razer BS but just afraid of Windows 10 and how this equipment will look like in next 2-3 years - if the quality will be the same as at the beg. Razer (and Windows) has some advantages like in my opinion better keyboard, more programs and games (I have PS4 but of course having this opportunity I would you this laptop to play some non heavy games). External GPU works better with Razer and Windows than OS X. Have some feeling that microsoft office works better and faster on Windows than on OSX
But from the other hand MBP has some advantages as well - iPhone integrity, it works perfectly with external monitor (you don't need to adjust any DPI for different monitors. It just works once you connect it). At the end the quality should be better (I used my old 2013 MBP and it worked fine but now really don't know once I've returned 2 laptops so far).

 

[Poki]

Editing 4k works better on the MacBook Pro solely because of Final Cut Pro X. Try using Premiere Pro and the Razer Blade is going to have an advantage - how big it will be depends on how well the GPU acceleration works, but due to the faster iGPU in the MBP, it won't be by much. Final Cut is not available on Windows, so if you want the smoothest video editing process and like or want to try FCP X, it's certainly worth a try.

eGPUs are natively supported on macOS High Sierra, so in many cases, they work just as good on a Mac as on Windows. If you want to use Windows-only games or software, you can always install Windows on a Mac via Bootcamp. Though I doubt there's any software (games excluded) that you can't get on macOS.

MS Office is just about as good on a Mac as it is on Windows. The UI is different though, so that's a preference thing.

"iPhone integrity" -- you mean iCloud by this, don't you? Depending on what exactly you need, there is an iCloud app for Windows, which is supposed to work quite well (haven't tried it myself).

Quality control for sure won't be better with Razer - you always can get lucky, or unlucky for that matter.

 

[Braveshock]

Editing 4k works better on the MacBook Pro solely because of Final Cut Pro X. Try using Premiere Pro and the Razer Blade is going to have an advantage - how big it will be depends on how well the GPU acceleration works, but due to the faster iGPU in the MBP, it won't be by much. Final Cut is not available on Windows, so if you want the smoothest video editing process and like or want to try FCP X, it's certainly worth a try.

eGPUs are natively supported on macOS High Sierra, so in many cases, they work just as good on a Mac as on Windows. If you want to use Windows-only games or software, you can always install Windows on a Mac via Bootcamp. Though I doubt there's any software (games excluded) that you can't get on macOS.

MS Office is just about as good on a Mac as it is on Windows. The UI is different though, so that's a preference thing.

"iPhone integrity" -- you mean iCloud by this, don't you? Depending on what exactly you need, there is an iCloud app for Windows, which is supposed to work quite well (haven't tried it myself).

Quality control for sure won't be better with Razer - you always can get lucky, or unlucky for that matter.

iPhone integrity it’s for me something like Airdrop stuff. You can easily send some pictures, documents from your phone to mbp and from mbp to phone. You don’t need to connect your phony via usb cabel and search pictures through catalogues.

Do you think is worth to get MBP TB instead of nTB? I know TB model has better CPU and...TB on the board but worth to pay it almost 400$ for it

 

[Braveshock]

Do you know how big difference in performance is between i7 7660U vs i5 model 7267U when I connect my 4K monitor? I see in Best buy you can pay 1999$ for nTB with i7 when i5 woth TB costs 2199$