If you're looking to replace any Macbook in the Ultrabook 13-14" screen size category, I would seriously consider either the Dell XPS 13, Razer Blade Stealth, or the Thinkpad X1 Carbon - They all offer Core i7 processors up to 16GB RAM, SSDs in the 256-1TB range, Dell's and Razers offer full 4K displays. Razer's and Dell's laptops have really good build quality in comparison to the typically top notch Apple builds. In the bigger 15" size, the big options are Dell's XPS 15 and the Razer Blade (2016), these laptops have differing approaches: Both laptops offer higher speed GPUs - Dell's is a Nvidia 960 series and Razer's is a state of the art Nvidia 1060 series GPU. Both offer Quad Core 6700 i7 Processors, both offer up to 4K Displays. Dell's build is lighter and thinner than Razers, but Razer's is one piece black aluminum - almost like a Black MacBook Pro.

What's interesting here is that Bill agrees with Steve Jobs on the tablet issue. Both Bill and Steve advocating against just dropping technology in to improve education. Steve was more direct, but Bill says the same thing, that it's the Teachers that matter, a good teacher can improve students with less technology far more effectively than a mediocre/poor teacher can with lots of technology.

This sounds like a pissing contest between TSA and Senator Collins. So what's the end game here, if she wins, and an independent study occurs and finds that the X-Ray based scanners are risky (very likely), does the TSA dump those machines in favor the EM backscatter machines or do they fall back to pat-downs and the metal detectors. In either case the TSA will have to handle more work, which will raise our costs, which supposedly the GOP is trying to fix (how I don't know). So the real question comes down to, how does Senator Collins profit from advocating for an independent review, she clearly believes the TSA is lying about the safety of the X-Ray scanners, and wants change, but how does this change help her. That's the real question!