Hey,
I need a laptop for work/personal use. My office provides ****** computers and I'm tired of dealing with it so I'm in the market for purchasing a laptop I can use both for work and for personal use. I'm lookin forward to the increase in productivity.
I have a bit of a dilemma right now and I'm curious to get some feedback from folks. Essentially, I got 3 options on the table.
1- I purchased a 2019 entry MBP 13 with 256 GB for $1179 at Microcenter. The machine is perfect with no dead pixels, great panel uniformity, and no backlight bleeding (I've seen others with all of the aforementioned issues) . I think I got a real good deal considering this retails for $1499 - $1179 was the cheapest I've seen it. However, the draw back on this purchase is the following for me. I imagine a scissor key 13/14 with hopefully reduced bezels is going to come out Q1 of 2020 or worse case H1. I could probably resell that MBP and take a few hundred dollar hit to help source the new one when that happens tho.
2 - I have in my possession a 16 MBP- I'm in love with the keyboard and while the design language is largely the same, the increase screen real estate is fantastic and the laptops looks more modern. The down side here is that obviously it's significantly bigger than the 13 and will have reduced portability. My primary use case for the device is to sit at my desk @ work plugged into 2 24 inch 1080p screens and occasionally 'undock' the device for meetings in conference rooms where I would use the device on a conference table. I don't travel much, and I would plan to use it at home for productivity I don't get anything done when I'm using my gaming PC. Eventually, I'd purchase 1 27 4k screen to go with it.
3- wait for the 13/14 MBP refresh. I'm really sick of those work laptops though and I can really use a productivity focused machine now.
Decisions Decisions.. to make it harder, my 13's return date expires tomorrow.. after that, if I decide to keep the 13 later, I'm going to be playing the panel/QC lottery again which I'm not looking forward to. so this decision is semi permanent
I need a laptop for work/personal use. My office provides ****** computers and I'm tired of dealing with it so I'm in the market for purchasing a laptop I can use both for work and for personal use. I'm lookin forward to the increase in productivity.
I have a bit of a dilemma right now and I'm curious to get some feedback from folks. Essentially, I got 3 options on the table.
1- I purchased a 2019 entry MBP 13 with 256 GB for $1179 at Microcenter. The machine is perfect with no dead pixels, great panel uniformity, and no backlight bleeding (I've seen others with all of the aforementioned issues) . I think I got a real good deal considering this retails for $1499 - $1179 was the cheapest I've seen it. However, the draw back on this purchase is the following for me. I imagine a scissor key 13/14 with hopefully reduced bezels is going to come out Q1 of 2020 or worse case H1. I could probably resell that MBP and take a few hundred dollar hit to help source the new one when that happens tho.
2 - I have in my possession a 16 MBP- I'm in love with the keyboard and while the design language is largely the same, the increase screen real estate is fantastic and the laptops looks more modern. The down side here is that obviously it's significantly bigger than the 13 and will have reduced portability. My primary use case for the device is to sit at my desk @ work plugged into 2 24 inch 1080p screens and occasionally 'undock' the device for meetings in conference rooms where I would use the device on a conference table. I don't travel much, and I would plan to use it at home for productivity I don't get anything done when I'm using my gaming PC. Eventually, I'd purchase 1 27 4k screen to go with it.
3- wait for the 13/14 MBP refresh. I'm really sick of those work laptops though and I can really use a productivity focused machine now.
Decisions Decisions.. to make it harder, my 13's return date expires tomorrow.. after that, if I decide to keep the 13 later, I'm going to be playing the panel/QC lottery again which I'm not looking forward to. so this decision is semi permanent
