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Buying a Macbook Pro?
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@RyanDS My suggestion would be to go for the 13" MacBook Pro retina. It's really not a great deal heavier than the MBA, and you get much more bang for your buck. The one I was looking at was this:
13-inch: 2.4GHz
with Retina display
Specifications
2.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz
8GB 1600MHz memory
256GB PCIe-based flash storage
Intel Iris Graphics
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Hayznut 2 posts
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Registered 13 years agoHaving the exact same dilemma as you had in deciding between the 13 and maxed out 15 inch. How do you find the portability of the 15 inch? Got a huge mammoth Dell XPS 17 and it's pretty much desktop only due to its size and weight so definitely want something a bit slimmer. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years ago15" easily portable, very thin and relatively light. Goes into a "back pack" or "ruck sack" or whatever the hipsters are using these days very comfortably. I wrap mine in a hand knitted button down laptop case with an ironic cat motif in the design.
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yegon 6,511 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAs portable as the 15" is, if I was going to leave the house with it, I would have gone with a 13" personally. I only ever take my iPad mini on the go these days so going 15" was an easy decision - Id have actually bought a 17" if they still made them.
The problem with the 13" though is that the native res is still the same real estate as 1280x800 (2560x1600) which is pretty laughable these days. You could scale it to 1680x1050, but it kind of misses the point of "retina" to some degree if you're always going to use it at that res.
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CharlieStCloud 5,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoTake a look at this:
... may as well buy now rather than waiting another seven or eight months for the new MacBooks.
Not sure where the (new) 12" MacBook Air is going to fit in all this. -
@Hayznut Nicely portable. Comfortable on your lap on the sofa for instance. I haven't taken it out of the house yet, but I foresee no problems with that. For me, a 15" was a desktop replacement.
If all you really need it for is a portable machine to read the web and type on, the 13" might be better value for you. -
dominalien 10,703 posts
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Registered 15 years agobinky wrote:
If that's what he needs, a Chromebook will suffice.
If all you really need it for is a portable machine to read the web and type on, the 13" might be better value for you..gif)
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mothercruncher 19,474 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFuck me. I know I'm late to the party, but I installed an SSD in my 2010 MacBook Pro this week. Did the nerd thing beforehand and timed starting up from cold, opening Safari and loading the Eurogamer front page. Original drive was 2 minutes and 36 seconds.
The SSD is all done in 37 seconds flat. It's like a new machine. -
Zerobob 3,017 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI'm looking at buying a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro to replace my current laptop, which is getting extremely hot during use these days.
Is now a terrible time to buy a MacBook Pro though? The spec was last updated in March 2015, and the general consensus online is that a new MacBook Pro is imminent.
However, experience also tells me that a new MacBook Pro may not be without its problems, and the current model is a very solid laptop.
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THFourteen 54,987 posts
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MMMarmite 1,659 posts
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Registered 15 years ago@Zerobob Personally I'd wait until the wwdc keynote in early June before I made a decision. They don't always announce hardware at wwdc but upcoming changes may get a sneak peek (Polaris performance boost, new tech etc), otherwise it'll be a quiet spec bump later in the year.
Also if they put Polaris into a new rMBP it should run cooler and give a better battery life, unless they decide to make it even thinner. -
Zerobob 3,017 posts
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Registered 12 years agoOK I may wait it out then, but then the Polaris-based machine may no be available until early 2017, then availability may be an issue, and it also may have hardware issues of its own.
Thanks for the advice and info though, all food for thought. I'm just a bit desperate for a new laptop and work as a web developer, so getting a MacBook Pro seemed like the thing to do.gif)
I'm also in the middle of a personal project making a game, and don't really want to put dev on hold. I just don't trust my current laptop and the temperatures it's reaching. I may take it apart and liberate it of dust.
As far as I see it, the only rival to the MacBook Pro is the Dell XPS 13, but battery life isn't quite as good, and the screen isn't quite as good, and higher resolutions don't scale quite as well within Windows... and it's OS is Windows... I really wanted to go with OSX this time around with Bootcamp. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAha!
A stealth "buy my iOS game" post.
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Zerobob 3,017 posts
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Registered 12 years ago@THFourteen
Haha, well if you don't blow your own trumpet, nobody's going to blow it for you
I'm actually developing a browser-based fantasy card game in JavaScript, more for practice than anything, but I do quite like concept I've arrived at. I was looking to potentially port it to mobile using PhoneGap.
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specialgamer 690 posts
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Registered 10 years agoHopefully the next MacBook Pro will have a screen capable of DCI-P3 colour gamut in it, like the new iPad Pro and the most recent iMac. I saw it in action on the new iPad Pro recently and it makes the sRGB ones we've been using for decades look utterly lifeless. Very impressive on photos of people especially.
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mothercruncher 19,474 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYou mean people fucking I presume. -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoWas wondering if anyone uses on of the newer macbook pros?
Looking to get the 15" version, but was wondering if the touch bar is actually useful, and if the massive touchpad is not too large (false detections when typing). -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThere’s plenty of MacBook chat in the Mac newbie idiot thread, Tonka loves/despises his
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nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIt's cognitive dissonance from being one of the world's most tedious android fans. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThe massive trackpad is a PITA
The touchbar is an expensive joke
USB-C is fucking useless. You basically buy a massive dongle, plug that in and go on as if there was no USB-C. The only positive of it is that I can charge my Android phone with the computercable.
The keyboard... oh my gods the keyboard. So fucking shit.
MacOS is increasingly annoying with crap features falling out of it's ass.
And it's not just me being an Android fan. One of the head priests of the Church of Mac is down on the latest MaBook "Pro" as well
https://marco.org/2017/11/24/fixing-the-macbook-pro
Apple are apparently working on a new set of laptops with A Chips in them. I'd strongly advice against getting one of the current batch.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2018/02/06/apple-macbookpro-new-leak-march-launch-release-date/#4cf3000d6706 -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOn the other hand.
Right now the useless fucker is lying folded up next to my monitor. I've got one of the wired Apple keyboards plugged in through that mahoooooosive dongle thing I bought. A decent (non Apple obv) mouse plugged into the keyboard.
The laptop is quiet and powerful enough. It also weighs next to nothing and is tiny (I've got the 13" model) so if I want to bring it home that's no issue.
Alas, I'd have to bring
The keyboard (because the MBP keyboard is an insult)
The mouse (because jumping from keyboard to trackpad is shit)
The mega dongle (because USB-C innit)
I was working from home and thought I could use my real mouse ... hehe. Fucking USV-C. Thought I should move some photos from my SD-Card... hehe. No reader AND my USB one won't work because USB-C
If you just want to browse the internet then go ahead and buy one. If you're planning on using it for work. It wasn't designed with that in mind.
Fuck... thiswas supposed to be my positive take.
It's small and light. That's it. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAs long as I don't have to touch it I'm fine. -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoWell I'm going to wait then. Looking too replace my 2012 mbp, but at that price range I'm also looking at Razer and Surface Pro models. Problem is I really like the apple trackpads and the way they work with safari, can't live without the simple swipe gestures for page back/next and the weighted scrolling. I tried to get about the same thing set up in windows with chrome and the windows precision drivers but it's just not the same. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah, don't even get me started on the price. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoFake_Blood wrote:
I've got a Surface Book and the trackpad is excellent, certainly the closest to Apple and the first Windows laptop I've owned that hasn't left me wishing I had a MBP trackpad. It supports all the swipe gestures.
Well I'm going to wait then. Looking too replace my 2012 mbp, but at that price range I'm also looking at Razer and Surface Pro models. Problem is I really like the apple trackpads and the way they work with safari, can't live without the simple swipe gestures for page back/next and the weighted scrolling. I tried to get about the same thing set up in windows with chrome and the windows precision drivers but it's just not the same. -
HarryB 7,630 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI've been looking for a new macbook but just gonna get a 15" 2015 model at this rate. Keep hearing about reliability issues with the 2016/2017 models. Upgrading from a 2010 model which runs like a turd even with 8GB RAM and an SSD. Think it's more the CPU no longer copes. -
Tonka wrote:
I have the 15" one, with external keyboard and trackpad for docked use. It's a fantastic workhorse, easily up to development, video editing, use as a DAW, and all sorts.
If you just want to browse the internet then go ahead and buy one. If you're planning on using it for work. It wasn't designed with that in mind.
The only "pro" users I know of for the 13" models are pure code/infrastructure DevOps type people, who just plug it into a bank of monitors and never look at it again. Back in the good old days the 13" models didn't even have the "pro" monicker, which I think was the right call.
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