2016 MBP TB upgrade to 2018 MBP TB - Worth it?

[jeme]

Upgrading from a 2016 MBP TB to 2018 MBP TB - 16GB Ram and 1 TB SSD. This upgrade will cost me about $1500, I have the money saved up and the main reason is that I need the extra storage. Is this a worth while upgrade?

This is a combined work and personal machine so other than my ipad this is the next most used computer. I appreciate any thoughts or comments! Thanks!

 

[chrfr]

Upgrading from a 2016 MBP TB to 2018 MBP TB - 16GB Ram and 1 TB SSD. This upgrade will cost me about $1500, I have the money saved up and the main reason is that I need the extra storage. Is this a worth while upgrade?

This is a combined work and personal machine so other than my ipad this is the next most used computer. I appreciate any thoughts or comments! Thanks!

I'd put the money aside and wait to see if there's a totally redesigned MBP coming in 2019. The keyboard issues are still not fully resolved.

 

[Ma2k5]

It is a good performance bump due to the extra cores (as well as some other improvements), but I don't think it is worth parting with $1500 for the upgrade. I'd rather wait out for 10nm update before upgrading.

 

[jeme]

Thanks for the input - I still have 12 days left in the return window! From what I hear the next redesign is in 2020 and 2019 will be a spec bump. I really needed the HD space. OK thanks!

 

[pubmsu]

You can get iCloud Drive instead which will seamlessly offload your least recently used files to cloud.

 

[Cashmonee]

No one has any idea when a new MacBook Pro will be released and what that release will entail. There may or may not be a 2019 MacBook Pro. If there is, it seems likely to be a move to 9th gen CPUs and possibly something like the current Vega GPUs being standard. It seems likely AMD will not have a new laptop GPU like the current Radeons available in time for a 2019 MacBook Pro. As for a 2020 redesign, who knows?

All this to say, if you need a laptop now, then upgrade. There is no indication that 2019 will be something revolutionary and 2020 is a complete wild card. Having said that, it seems like you may only need more storage. In that case, if an external drive would work for you, I would take advantage of the Thunderbolt 3 ports you have and get an external drive. I personally would not spend $1500 to go from a 2016 that was fast enough to a 2018 simply to double the drive space.
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You can get iCloud Drive instead which will seamlessly offload your least recently used files to cloud.

This is a good idea, especially for personal stuff. I do not know that I would trust this solution for mission critical work files.

 

[baypharm]

Why not buy an external TB SSD for much much less than $1500?

 

[Love Divine]

Absolutely not, not even for one second and not even for half that price.

Buy external storage and wait another 2 years before doing it or one year after the next re-design has been out, at minimum.