Dell XPS 15 9550 VS MacBook Pro

[Elgauly]

I'm going to buy one of this laptops in the next days but I did not decided yet, so I would like to hear some suggestions. I'm a indie game developer and a CS student so I wanted to invest in a powerful laptop. I am very used to windows and I never used mac os so I don't know if it will be hard for me to get used to it but still I like to hear from you guys, what do you think, should I go for the latest Dell XPS 15 or MacBook Pro?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Quixit]

Buy the Dell, it's cheaper and doesn't run Mac OS. The GPU is more powerful and it's smaller as well.

 

[bjornl]

The MAC is a niche market. If you want to develop for a niche market, then get the Mac. If you want to develop for the 90-95% that use a Windows PC then get the DELL.

I strongly suggest you follow the mainstream as that is where almost all of your eventual customers will be.

 

[burdenbound]

I think it depends, do you plan on doing any development work for osx/iOS? If so you may want to go with the mac because you will need the application Xcode which only runs on mac. You could still develop for mac on a PC but you will need to run a virtual machine, or create a separate partition running osx.

If not then the dell is probably the cheaper option (I actually haven't compared the prices but I'll take my chances).

 

[Elgauly]

I think it depends, do you plan on doing any development work for osx/iOS? If so you may want to go with the mac because you will need the application Xcode which only runs on mac. You could still develop for mac on a PC but you will need to run a virtual machine, or create a separate partition running osx.

If not then the dell is probably the cheaper option (I actually haven't compared the prices but I'll take my chances).

The thing is that I am using Unity for my game development so I can build for os, android, pc, mac etc without worrying too much.