MacBook Pro Retina vs Macbook Pro Non-Retina

[yjchua95]

heyy i will be only using for school purposes, my media(music, pictures , videos) will be on cloud. so technically the computer will only be filling with documents and few applications. so i will probably have so much space left

The apps and the VM can take up a load of space already.

Besides, the 128GB SSD's speeds are pathetic compared to the 256GB.

 

[JHUFrank]

hey whats your specs for your rMBP? will 128gb SSD will be enough for Windows in VMs

Negative. I have the 512 version. At least 256.

 

[thunng8]

The bad side to NOT getting a retina, is losing thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0.

The non retina has USB 3.0

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Hey Thanks for the reply everyone. In terms of performance between the two, won't the one with i7 be faster ? Regardless, since the retina one has i5

The i7 in the older non retina MacBook will be slightly faster, but only a few percent. You won't notice the difference.

 

[BoneDaddy]

The non retina has USB 3.0

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The i7 in the older non retina MacBook will be slightly faster, but only a few percent. You won't notice the difference.

Dang it. I knew I shouldn't had taken their word for it. My friend was looking into getting a non retina MBP and I told him his would only have thunderbolt 1 and USB 3.0. I talked to an Apple rep just to make sure. She assured me that it was USB 2.0. I told him EF that, just get a retina.

Thank you for correcting me.