Is it worth it to spend $500+ to go from 1.4ghz to 2.8ghz (2019 13")?

[Hieveryone]

- comparing a 13" to a 15" ? .. I am a professional and use a 1.4 just fine...lol, and I definitely don't miss lugging that 15" around! lol!
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if you watched the video in post #29, you would see that the 2.4 is ONLY 5-9% quicker basically than the new 1.4, so there's that.... why spend $ on something you don't even use??

Yeah the 15" is real heavy for me and bulky too. Did you have the later gen 15"? Or the original silver only one with lots of ports?

I haven't seen the whole video but wouldn't single threaded processes be faster? I'm guessing because of turbo boost it doesn't perform THAT much faster but for basic stuff like opening/closing apps, watching youtube, I would guess base clock speed matters...

 

[kp98077]

Yeah the 15" is real heavy for me and bulky too. Did you have the later gen 15"? Or the original silver only one with lots of ports?

I haven't seen the whole video but wouldn't single threaded processes be faster? I'm guessing because of turbo boost it doesn't perform THAT much faster but for basic stuff like opening/closing apps, watching youtube, I would guess base clock speed matters...

I had a 2019 15" loved it! BUT was just too big for me! always on the go, used to the 13s now.... anyway you slice it the new 1.4 is simply 8% slower than the high end 2.4..... so that's the question, is spending the extra $300-500 worth it? I don't really miss my 15 to be honest.. was just sorta too big..... I can throw my 15" in a bag and go, or couch surf, our outside... super easy..

 

[watchmainspring]

- comparing a 13" to a 15" ? .. I am a professional and use a 1.4 just fine...lol, and I definitely don't miss lugging that 15" around! lol!
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if you watched the video in post #29, you would see that the 2.4 is ONLY 5-9% quicker basically than the new 1.4, so there's that.... why spend $ on something you don't even use??

But how much faster is the 2.8ghz optional upgrade?

 

[x-evil-x]

- comparing a 13" to a 15" ? .. I am a professional and use a 1.4 just fine...lol, and I definitely don't miss lugging that 15" around! lol!
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if you watched the video in post #29, you would see that the 2.4 is ONLY 5-9% quicker basically than the new 1.4, so there's that.... why spend $ on something you don't even use??

because higher numbers mean better right? Anyone that watched the video see that the baby 1.4 ran around 3.1 ghz continuously in the test while the higher clock speed one ran at 3.3/3.4.
I wish i got a higher clock speed 15” macbook pro. Why did i spend my money on the 8 core LOWER clock speed one.
We cant tell someone enough that clock speed numbers dont matter much. Some people are just set in their own ways and assume higher clock speed means better performance which it doesnt necessarily mean.
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Yeah the 15" is real heavy for me and bulky too. Did you have the later gen 15"? Or the original silver only one with lots of ports?

I haven't seen the whole video but wouldn't single threaded processes be faster? I'm guessing because of turbo boost it doesn't perform THAT much faster but for basic stuff like opening/closing apps, watching youtube, I would guess base clock speed matters...

just watch the whole video and learn. Higher clock speed doesnt always mean better performance there are other factors. Why else would the 15” 8 core have a lower clock speed than the 6 core 15” macbook pro? The 8 core is faster so your reasoning makes no sense.

 

[Hieveryone]

because higher numbers mean better right? Anyone that watched the video see that the baby 1.4 ran around 3.1 ghz continuously in the test while the higher clock speed one ran at 3.3/3.4.
I wish i got a higher clock speed 15” macbook pro. Why did i spend my money on the 8 core LOWER clock speed one.
We cant tell someone enough that clock speed numbers dont matter much. Some people are just set in their own ways and assume higher clock speed means better performance which it doesnt necessarily mean.
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just watch the whole video and learn. Higher clock speed doesnt always mean better performance there are other factors. Why else would the 15” 8 core have a lower clock speed than the 6 core 15” macbook pro? The 8 core is faster so your reasoning makes no sense.

Faster under what scenario? 4K video editing? Or just basic stuff like opening notes...?

 

[alias99]

Faster under what scenario? 4K video editing? Or just basic stuff like opening notes...?

You constantly state that one of the main things you use your computer for is watching youtube. So how about you click the link to the video and watch it?

 

[tomscott1988]

Literally google it or go on youtube and watch there is so much info out there already.

At the end of the day 6-10% extra performance gain... do the math 1299 to 1799 is a 38% percentage increase.

Like I said before I dont know why people worry so much if you need a machine to do heavy lifting the 13" isnt the machine. Its a good compromise it packs a punch when your on the go but when you need to do some actual work the screens too small and your limited to 16gbs of ram and if you want to use a 4k display the integrated graphics are the bottleneck and if they are like any other 13" MPB the fans will go wild when try to render that amount of pixels. If you want to make it a desktop by the time you buy the displays keyboard and an EGPU your easily in the £4000 territory.

Its always been the same but you can buy a low end macbook pro say the base 1.4 with 256gb and 8gb which is a ok spec for on the go for £1500 perfect for when your on the go and you can then buy a base iMac which beats most of apples laptop range apart from the top end 15 which is £3500 on its own with the spec you need like 1tb 32gb and vega.

The base iMac with a 512gb ssd and and say spend £150 on 32gbs of ram to make 40 this would be £2169.

You get the 5k display, upgradable ram keyboard and mouse and your still under budget for a one machine set up and its more flexible. Apple tech like airdrop and icloud mean syncing documents and your desktop is easy. If you use the creative cloud it syncs all your settings anyway and you can use the cloud drive you get with it to save your assets.

You can have both for £3669

Really you have an extra 350 additional so you could go for the top build to order for more performance.

In my opinion it makes more sense and far better value for money.