I've been waiting for the new 13 (thought maybe 14) inch macbook range to be released before making my decision. Thing is, even though I use computers constantly for my work (Im a software engineer) embarrassingly I know next to nothing about hardware. I've been looking at forum posts here and people are saying that upgrading from the i5 to the i7 in the new MBP 13" is a waste of money, but I have no idea why!
I use my machine for building mainly web apps. I browse and tend to have a huge amount of tabs open at the same time, and often have a lot of apps running concurrently. I wouldn't say I'm a light user but I'm also not doing _any_ graphical stuff at all. I want to get a machine that will still run smooth in 3+ years as they're a big investment. Ideally I would like to get the 16" but it's a lot of money and I thought I'd ask here about the 13" because it's a lot more affordable, I just don't know enough about hardware to know whether it's suitable for me. There's a ton of different configuration options available and while i know i want 16gb ram, processors are things I just don't know about.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, is the Air an option for me? Again, I use lots of apps concurrently and when I do personal projects on my work laptop (high spec 2019 mbp 15") the fans go quite a lot. So I guess I need a good CPU but GPU not as important?
Cheers
I use my machine for building mainly web apps. I browse and tend to have a huge amount of tabs open at the same time, and often have a lot of apps running concurrently. I wouldn't say I'm a light user but I'm also not doing _any_ graphical stuff at all. I want to get a machine that will still run smooth in 3+ years as they're a big investment. Ideally I would like to get the 16" but it's a lot of money and I thought I'd ask here about the 13" because it's a lot more affordable, I just don't know enough about hardware to know whether it's suitable for me. There's a ton of different configuration options available and while i know i want 16gb ram, processors are things I just don't know about.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, is the Air an option for me? Again, I use lots of apps concurrently and when I do personal projects on my work laptop (high spec 2019 mbp 15") the fans go quite a lot. So I guess I need a good CPU but GPU not as important?
Cheers
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