$70 Savings Worth it?

[OleMagnolia]

Looking to upgrade my older Macbook with a newer Macbook Pro Retina model. I was trying to figure out the difference between these two models

Z0RC-2.8-16-512-RTN http://www.macmall.com/p/Apple-MacBook-Pro/product~dpno~13240588~pdp.iifdcbf

Z0RD-2.8-16-512-RTN http://www.macmall.com/p/Apple-MacBook-Pro/product~dpno~13240595~pdp.iifdccc

As far as I can tell the only difference is the installed operating system. Is it worth the savings to get the Mavericks version and then upgrade to Yosemite if I choose to? Thanks for any info or help.

 

[steveh552]

Looks to me the video card is the difference in price, intel vs. nvidia

 

[campyguy]

IMO the slightly-higher priced Mac is the better deal.

The "difference" is the higher-priced Mac has the stock Intel Iris Pro (found in both Macs) and adds a discrete NVIDIA card, used to drive additional monitors. The "Z0RC" Mac has been upgraded from the stock 256GB RAM to match the "Z0RD" Mac's stock 512GB RAM. IMO paying $70 more for the discrete video card is a no-brainer...

 

[OleMagnolia]

Thanks for your help. I was not realizing the lack of a dedicated video card on the cheaper model. Thanks for pointing that out. I will go with that one instead. On the plus side the Z0RD model has further dropped in price.

So I got that going for me... which is nice.