Hello to you all.
I'm long time reader of the MacRomours forum but this is my first post. So I need your help. I have been using mac computers for over 20 years. Since 2011 as my daily driver (for work and for personal stuff) i have been using a 15" 2.2 quad core MBP. Most of the time i have been really satisfied with it. But in the last year there have been more and more problems with it such as a motherboard replace which happaned 2 times. So I'm planing to buy new MBP with TBar but I'm not sure should I buy the 13" 2.9 GHz dual core with 16 gb of ram and 512 gb ssd or the 15" 2.7 GHz quad core with 16 gb of ram and 512 ssd. I know that the quad core version is alot faster but the price difference is huge as well. Would i notice the speed difference between my current mac and the new one if I went with the slower one. My usual use consists of sending emails, using chrome and safari (10-15 tabs at one time), large ms office documents, using itunes, ocassional vm use and simillar stuff. I know that the processor itself is still slower then the older one but there are a lot of components which are much faster in the new mac. Does anybody have experience with this or can anyone help with my choice in any other way ? Thanks in advance.
I'm long time reader of the MacRomours forum but this is my first post. So I need your help. I have been using mac computers for over 20 years. Since 2011 as my daily driver (for work and for personal stuff) i have been using a 15" 2.2 quad core MBP. Most of the time i have been really satisfied with it. But in the last year there have been more and more problems with it such as a motherboard replace which happaned 2 times. So I'm planing to buy new MBP with TBar but I'm not sure should I buy the 13" 2.9 GHz dual core with 16 gb of ram and 512 gb ssd or the 15" 2.7 GHz quad core with 16 gb of ram and 512 ssd. I know that the quad core version is alot faster but the price difference is huge as well. Would i notice the speed difference between my current mac and the new one if I went with the slower one. My usual use consists of sending emails, using chrome and safari (10-15 tabs at one time), large ms office documents, using itunes, ocassional vm use and simillar stuff. I know that the processor itself is still slower then the older one but there are a lot of components which are much faster in the new mac. Does anybody have experience with this or can anyone help with my choice in any other way ? Thanks in advance.