Hello everyone,
since my Air died a couple of month ago from a coffee spill incident I'm in the market for something new. I waited up until now, because I knew that Apple will release new Pros but now I'm not sure which one in which configuration I should be getting (or if a Pro would actually be the right choice at all). Because, the new MBPs are quite pricy I was hoping to get some suggestions/insight here.
I'm a mathematical modeling scientist and even though I have an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015, 4 GHz, 16 GB RAM) in the office, I'll be traveling from time to time (and giving presentations) and expect to work from home more often in the future. Aside from work, I do the usual things... watching movies (streaming and from disk), webbrowsing with quite a lot of tabs, mail, light photo editing, etc.
Programs I use regularly are:
Because of all the professional use,I don't think that a Macbook would be suitable. Furthermore, I think that if I now buy something new, I'd like to have up to date components. So no older MBP or Air (I think).
The configuration I thought to fit my needs would be 13" with 16GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD. Or what do you guys think?
Thanks a lot for the help
since my Air died a couple of month ago from a coffee spill incident I'm in the market for something new. I waited up until now, because I knew that Apple will release new Pros but now I'm not sure which one in which configuration I should be getting (or if a Pro would actually be the right choice at all). Because, the new MBPs are quite pricy I was hoping to get some suggestions/insight here.
I'm a mathematical modeling scientist and even though I have an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015, 4 GHz, 16 GB RAM) in the office, I'll be traveling from time to time (and giving presentations) and expect to work from home more often in the future. Aside from work, I do the usual things... watching movies (streaming and from disk), webbrowsing with quite a lot of tabs, mail, light photo editing, etc.
Programs I use regularly are:
- Matlab (also for multicore jobs)
- Mathematica
- R and RStudio (also for multicore jobs)
- Papers
- TeXShop
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Keynote
- MS Office (Word, Excel)
- Source Tree
- 1Password
- Chrome
- Fantastical
- Reeder
- and smaller thing like Notes, Evernote, Atom, Dropbox
Because of all the professional use,I don't think that a Macbook would be suitable. Furthermore, I think that if I now buy something new, I'd like to have up to date components. So no older MBP or Air (I think).
The configuration I thought to fit my needs would be 13" with 16GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD. Or what do you guys think?
Thanks a lot for the help