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13” with Touch Bar vs 15” Without

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lumencreative

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I’m looking to buy a new laptop. My 2011 MacBook Pro died so I got a Windows laptop as that’s all I could afford at the time but had enough of Windows now.

So, I’m looking at the MacBook Pros and can’t decide between a new 13” 3.1GHz MBP with Touch Bar or paying the extra £50 for the 15” 2.2GHz without the Touch Bar.

I’m not too bothered about the Touch Bar but wondering whether there’s much of a performance difference between the 3.1GHz i5 and 2.2GHz i7.

Thanks
 
I went with the '13 touchbar version and do not regret it. I find myself using the tb more and more with the apps I use. bettertouchtool offers a lot of customization if your into that. If you can hit up a best buy or Apple Store to play around with the different models. other advantages over the non-tb, its faster, more usbc ports, has Touch ID and the base model has double the storage. good luck.
 
lumencreative said:
I’m looking to buy a new laptop. My 2011 MacBook Pro died so I got a Windows laptop as that’s all I could afford at the time but had enough of Windows now.

So, I’m looking at the MacBook Pros and can’t decide between a new 13” 3.1GHz MBP with Touch Bar or paying the extra £50 for the 15” 2.2GHz without the Touch Bar.

I’m not too bothered about the Touch Bar but wondering whether there’s much of a performance difference between the 3.1GHz i5 and 2.2GHz i7.

Thanks
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Of course the 15 inch is quadcore with iris Pro imp vs the 13 inch dual core it will crush it in multithreaded tasks. However that 15 inch without touchbar was released in 2015, so it’s internals are pretty out of datethese days.
 
thing about "without touch 13" if two ports meet your requirement.
Get money for upgrade SSD/memory for better value.

The main reason of 2016/2017 model is the P3 color display much better that pervious model,
or thing of get a refurb 2016/2017 from apple store for save money.
 
Hater said:
2" extra of screen realestate >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the touchbar.
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Two sides to every coin: 0.7kg lighter >>> 2" extra of screen real estate, in my case anyway.

Although I'm not sure about the performance difference of the CPU (obviously the quad-core will help for some tasks), the 15" 2015 will have dedicated graphics as well. (Whoops, this isn't actually the case.)

Personally, I was faced with the same decision last year and went with the 13" w/ Touch Bar, because the P3 screen is amazing, I love the keyboard and the slimmer, more portable design. It's less powerful CPU-wise than my 15" 2011 I was upgrading from (in terms of multicore performance), but it's better in every other department.
 
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cambookpro said:
Two sides to every coin: 0.7kg lighter >>> 2" extra of screen real estate, in my case anyway.

Although I'm not sure about the performance difference of the CPU (obviously the quad-core will help for some tasks), the 15" 2015 will have dedicated graphics as well.

Personally, I was faced with the same decision last year and went with the 13" w/ Touch Bar, because the P3 screen is amazing, I love the keyboard and the slimmer, more portable design. It's less powerful CPU-wise than my 15" 2011 I was upgrading from (in terms of multicore performance), but it's better in every other department.
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The current 15 inch from 2015 on sale by Apple still and the one quoted by the OP only has an igpu it’s the iris Pro on a haswell chip and is pretty good (somewhere between a 640m and 650m from the period) it’s no recent dGPU.
 
Samuelsan2001 said:
The current 15 inch from 2015 on sale by Apple still and the one quoted by the OP only has an igpu it’s the iris Pro on a haswell chip and is pretty good (somewhere between a 640m and 650m from the period) it’s no recent dGPU.
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Ah, I thought all recent 15" MBPs had a dGPU, my mistake. Thanks for the correction!
 
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