Apple's new MacBook may well be the template for all laptops in the future, but right now it's a compromised machine.
Lenovo's LaVie Z laptop running Windows 8.1 is not as thin as the new MacBook, but it's lighter, and it has all the ports you need without requiring a special dock or dongles.
The new MacBook's 2.03-pound weight is light, but the LaVie Z is somehow lighter: It weighs 1.87 pounds.
It also has a larger 13.3-inch 2,560 x 1,440 resolution touchscreen display, whereas the new MacBook has a 12-inch 2,304 x 1,440 non-touchscreen display.
And unlike the new MacBook, which has a single USB-C port, the LaVie Z has two USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI output and an SD card slot.
Lenovo's laptop also out-muscles the new MacBook's puny 1.1GHz Intel Core M processor with a 2.4GHz Intel Core i7 chip, Intel HD Graphic 5500 graphics, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid-state drive storage and a 720p web camera. (Sorry, new MacBook owners: You're stuck with your low-res 480p camera.)
Battery life, however, looks to be lower than the new MacBook's: Up to seven hours according to MobileMark 12 benchmarks and up to nine hours for video playback. In comparison, the new MacBook gets up to nine hours on web browsing and up to 10 hours viewing video in iTunes.
The LaVie Z has the new MacBook beat on almost every spec, but all the extra features come at a cost: The laptop starts at $1,499, which is $200 more than the new MacBook.