Hi everyone,
I've been looking to pick up a replacement for my 2011 non-retina MBP and am not really excited about the 2016TB's, or at least not at the price (I also have deep concerns about the keyboard). I saw that there is no longer a BTO option for the 2015 model with the Radeon GPU and I was wondering if, for my usage, that's worth worrying about.
Basically, beyond normal lap-top-y things, I want to be able to do some scratch video editing (in 1080 or 4K proxy files) before I move my projects to my Retina iMac 27". I'd like to think that the Iris Pro graphics are enough for this, BUT, my current 2011 MBP is TERRIBLE for these simple tasks, even after I put in a Samsung Evo SSD and 8 GB of RAM. It's stutter-y and laggy and just miserable. So I guess I wanted to know if I can get an un-self-conscious "buttery smooth" experience with light video editing in the base model 2015 or if I should go to the refurb store and hunt down a Radeon one. Any help is hugely appreciated. I posted a similar thing in a different thread but I realize it probably wasn't the correct place to put it. Thank you.
PS: I basically spent all day searching for benchmarks that might have answered this question, but it seems as if the Iris Pro vs. Radeon question was not at the forefront of the internet's collective mind in 2015!
I've been looking to pick up a replacement for my 2011 non-retina MBP and am not really excited about the 2016TB's, or at least not at the price (I also have deep concerns about the keyboard). I saw that there is no longer a BTO option for the 2015 model with the Radeon GPU and I was wondering if, for my usage, that's worth worrying about.
Basically, beyond normal lap-top-y things, I want to be able to do some scratch video editing (in 1080 or 4K proxy files) before I move my projects to my Retina iMac 27". I'd like to think that the Iris Pro graphics are enough for this, BUT, my current 2011 MBP is TERRIBLE for these simple tasks, even after I put in a Samsung Evo SSD and 8 GB of RAM. It's stutter-y and laggy and just miserable. So I guess I wanted to know if I can get an un-self-conscious "buttery smooth" experience with light video editing in the base model 2015 or if I should go to the refurb store and hunt down a Radeon one. Any help is hugely appreciated. I posted a similar thing in a different thread but I realize it probably wasn't the correct place to put it. Thank you.
PS: I basically spent all day searching for benchmarks that might have answered this question, but it seems as if the Iris Pro vs. Radeon question was not at the forefront of the internet's collective mind in 2015!