Hello,
I need to buy a work laptop for my wife and I need some advice as to which model is most appropriate.
This will be used almost exclusively for work purposes so things like gaming won't be a factor at all.
I have narrowed it down to the 2015 15" or 13" MacBook Pro but I'm leaning towards the 15" due to the extra screen real estate.
Until the actual units gets benchmarked, I guess we have to rely on claimed battery life which favours the 13" model but only slightly. And of course the extra pound on the 15" also favours the 13" model for work travel which she may increasingly need to do in the future.
But my main point of confusion is using external monitors.
Namely the difference between the Iris 6100 (13"), Iris Pro (15" base) and R9 370X (15" high end).
Extra screen real estate is a big plus and atm we have an UltraHD TV, a LG 49UB850T to be precise which can do 3840X2160 @ 60hz via HDMI 2.0 which I'd like to have the option of using. I assume a lightning to HDMI adapter is all I need? Is that the same as a mini displayport to HDMI?
Will there be a difference in how each of these will drive the TV?
As in, can each graphic card drive just the TV, mirror or extend the desktop. Ideally she'd want to extend the desktop so that she can work on the laptop whilst simultaneously have lots of other documents up on the TV to quickly reference.
Does the inclusion of a dGPU decrease battery life? If so, can it be turned off when she's working 'unplugged?'
I'm also leaning towards the 15" models for the faster SSD which should make loading large documents (some several hundred pages I've seen) quicker?
I also can't wait for Skylake as she needs the computer more or less now. Am I correct in assuming CPU doesn't matter much for her uses anyways?
RAM will be maxed out at 16GB. Faster clocked on the 13" it seems (1866 vs 1600MHz) but will that make a tangible difference?
The computer will last many years so a larger SSD would be welcomed hence if she chooses a 15" the high end model makes more sense since it already comes with double the storage and not much difference in price once you factor in a SSD upgrade to the base model.
Sorry for the long post but I thought I'd give as much info as possible.
Cheers
I need to buy a work laptop for my wife and I need some advice as to which model is most appropriate.
This will be used almost exclusively for work purposes so things like gaming won't be a factor at all.
I have narrowed it down to the 2015 15" or 13" MacBook Pro but I'm leaning towards the 15" due to the extra screen real estate.
Until the actual units gets benchmarked, I guess we have to rely on claimed battery life which favours the 13" model but only slightly. And of course the extra pound on the 15" also favours the 13" model for work travel which she may increasingly need to do in the future.
But my main point of confusion is using external monitors.
Namely the difference between the Iris 6100 (13"), Iris Pro (15" base) and R9 370X (15" high end).
Extra screen real estate is a big plus and atm we have an UltraHD TV, a LG 49UB850T to be precise which can do 3840X2160 @ 60hz via HDMI 2.0 which I'd like to have the option of using. I assume a lightning to HDMI adapter is all I need? Is that the same as a mini displayport to HDMI?
Will there be a difference in how each of these will drive the TV?
As in, can each graphic card drive just the TV, mirror or extend the desktop. Ideally she'd want to extend the desktop so that she can work on the laptop whilst simultaneously have lots of other documents up on the TV to quickly reference.
Does the inclusion of a dGPU decrease battery life? If so, can it be turned off when she's working 'unplugged?'
I'm also leaning towards the 15" models for the faster SSD which should make loading large documents (some several hundred pages I've seen) quicker?
I also can't wait for Skylake as she needs the computer more or less now. Am I correct in assuming CPU doesn't matter much for her uses anyways?
RAM will be maxed out at 16GB. Faster clocked on the 13" it seems (1866 vs 1600MHz) but will that make a tangible difference?
The computer will last many years so a larger SSD would be welcomed hence if she chooses a 15" the high end model makes more sense since it already comes with double the storage and not much difference in price once you factor in a SSD upgrade to the base model.
Sorry for the long post but I thought I'd give as much info as possible.
Cheers
