Hi all, just looking some guidance on what you'd do if you were in my position regarding purchasing a new 2020 MacBook Air / Pro. I currently have an early 2015 MBP 13 i5 2.9/8/512, its running well to be honest and meets my needs. I want to change to something a little newer though. In terms of usage, I do usual web browsing, email, social, youtube, run VMs on Parallels and VirtualBox and some light video and photo stuff on imovie and photos / photoshop. My HDD is about 3/4 full but I could trim that to below 256Gb and my RAM usage is normally around 6 / 7 Gb when using VMs and at max workload. I would however use an iPad mostly more often now than the laptop only going for it when I need certain ports.
I've been researching the new hardware, and it would look like the MacBook Air would meet my needs, certainly the i5 with 16Gb for a little future proofing, but being honest I want the touchbar, so that means really the MacBook Pro. By the time I add on the extra RAM and maybe HDD space I'm kind of at that price anyway. So i'm leaning towards the base 2 port MacBook Pro in its standard configuration, but also eyeing up the base 4 port model. I know its overkill for what I need and £500 more expensive but if it does me another 5 / 6 years then it might be the better choice. I'm ruling out the iPad Pro 'laptop replacement option' as I need USB A in my workflow which I'll deal with using one of the all in one adaptors.
I can get EPP discount at Apple store so I could get the £1799 model for £1690, and with a sale of my current 2015 MBP I reckon another £350 / £400 for it at least bringing it down to a more palatable amount. My main concern with getting the base 2020 2 port model is if I start speccing it up I may as well just get the base 4 port and given its already on older CPU i would be wanting to change it sooner.
Of course, other alternative is just to wait and see what happens over the next year or so with ARM and a possible 14" screen. So any guidance in what you would do given the choices?
I've been researching the new hardware, and it would look like the MacBook Air would meet my needs, certainly the i5 with 16Gb for a little future proofing, but being honest I want the touchbar, so that means really the MacBook Pro. By the time I add on the extra RAM and maybe HDD space I'm kind of at that price anyway. So i'm leaning towards the base 2 port MacBook Pro in its standard configuration, but also eyeing up the base 4 port model. I know its overkill for what I need and £500 more expensive but if it does me another 5 / 6 years then it might be the better choice. I'm ruling out the iPad Pro 'laptop replacement option' as I need USB A in my workflow which I'll deal with using one of the all in one adaptors.
I can get EPP discount at Apple store so I could get the £1799 model for £1690, and with a sale of my current 2015 MBP I reckon another £350 / £400 for it at least bringing it down to a more palatable amount. My main concern with getting the base 2020 2 port model is if I start speccing it up I may as well just get the base 4 port and given its already on older CPU i would be wanting to change it sooner.
Of course, other alternative is just to wait and see what happens over the next year or so with ARM and a possible 14" screen. So any guidance in what you would do given the choices?
