Hi everyone, New to the Mac scene so i have a couple of questions if people have the time.
I'm going to America for holidays in May, and so wanting to buy a macbook and save a bit of money on the exchange rate from here in the UK. Would the new specs of macbooks be in the stores at this point and furthermore, what would people recommend? I was thinking of the 13" macbook pro but maybe tempted to go for the 15" if people recommend it.
Thanks.
I'm pretty sure the new macs are in shops within a day of being available online. Not sure if they do it they do it the same day in the UK cos they tend to come out around 2pm GMT, (I'd like to know myself actually, cos they can't very well change the display models at lunch time and you'd be pretty annoyed to learn you got an old mac at the mac store 3 hours after they announced new ones, without getting a discount). Whatever happens, it definitely won't take 3 months.
No one can tell you the relative merits of the 13-inch to the 15-inch until they know how apple divides up the processors and gfx card options across the product line. Sometimes, the MBP is barely worth the extra over the white macbook, currently the 15-inch MBP is probably not worth the extra over the 13-inch, since anyone who needs a gfx card would probably want the 512MB VRAM model and that's almost twice the price of the baseline 13 inch.