Need advice

[mtenuta]

Hi guys I asked the same question in the Air forum but am curious if I will get a difference response here.

. I'm currently debating on a early 2013 13 inch mbp i7 with a 250 SSD 8g Ram and a 2016 MacBook air 13 i7 8g Ram 128 SSD. Is the MBP too slow compared to the air ?I do basic office work watch movies etc.

Thanks guys !

 

[old-wiz]

I am writing on a 2013 MBPr 13 inch, i5, 8gb memory and a 512 gb ssd. The MBA screen is nowhere near as good as the MBPr. On the MBPr I watch movies, write, and use it for Quicken and TurboTax. A 2015 MBPr is faster than this one, but it has 16gb memory. My wife uses the MBA and she is happy with it and writes quite a lot on it and the screen doesn't bother her. Both machines have been on pretty much 24/7 but a lot of the time in sleep - I don't shut them off but just close the screen.

 

[Toutou]

At this moment I would not even consider the Air, because of the screen.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Hi guys I asked the same question in the Air forum but am curious if I will get a difference response here.

. I'm currently debating on a early 2013 13 inch mbp i7 with a 250 SSD 8g Ram and a 2016 MacBook air 13 i7 8g Ram 128 SSD. Is the MBP too slow compared to the air ?I do basic office work watch movies etc.

Thanks guys !

They would be similar in cpu performance however the early 2013 MBPs had pretty poor graphics for a retina screen. If you can run to a late 2013 MBP that will give you the sweet spot on cpu graphics and price Haswell and iris graphics were the boost the retina machines needed.

 

[mtenuta]

Thanks for the responses guys. I forgot to mention the mbp is not retina

 

[ixxx69]

Thanks for the responses guys. I forgot to mention the mbp is not retina

Then it's not a 2013 MBP.

 

[mtenuta]

Oh damn sorry 2012