Six rounds · house card Windows 3–2, 1 even
The card.
No overall trophy and no tiebreaker. Every round is judged on its own, because the machine that wins your workflow is the only one that matters.
- Round 01Design & feelHouseRound to MacApple builds one laptop very well. Windows builds a thousand and lets you pick. Which matters depends on whether you ever touch the trackpad.
- Round 02GamingHouseRound to WindowsWindows has the catalogue, the drivers and the anti-cheat support. Mac gaming is better than its reputation and still nowhere close.
- Round 03Price for powerHouseRound to WindowsBase Macs are competitively priced. The bill goes strange the moment you need more memory or storage, because you can never add it later.
- Round 04Dev experienceHouseScored evenmacOS is Unix with a good laptop attached. Windows answers with WSL2 and the only consumer GPUs that run CUDA. This one is genuinely level.
- Round 05Battery & portabilityHouseRound to MacApple silicon still leads on runtime, and it runs at full speed unplugged. Windows has closed more of the gap than people credit.
- Round 06Repair & upgradesHouseRound to WindowsOne side sells machines you can open with a screwdriver. The other solders the memory to the processor before it leaves the factory.