Quick vote - which 13" MBP retina would you buy?

Please help us decide!

What will you use it for?

 

my vote goes to the first one. That's what I did. You could always get an external drive if you need more space but if funds is not an issue I would have gone with the second choice.

 

Are you in the U.S.?

If you use education pricing you can get the 2.6, 16GB, 512 for $1879 plus tax.

Its a tough call man. Depends on what you use it for. If just for what you said, the 8gigs of ram is probably enough. On the other hand, you can always get external storage down the road. You cannot up the ram if needed.

 

The first model, for my needs. the extra RAM really helps a lot. As for the storage, id probably just end up going for a nice thunderbolt external lol.

 

First, Ram is soldered in, can always use an external if you need it, and technically you can replace the SSD in the rMBPs because it's a card, so down the line, upgrading the SSD will get cheaper

 

Oh, thats another thing. Since the RAM isn't user upgradeable it would be good to already have that fixed at the highest you could have it.

 

Both are utter overkill for your needs.
Since you have the luxury of sufficient funds you might as well flip a coin.

Because you wanna burn some cash the 15" would be worth a consideration.

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Cpu isnt upgradeable either.

 

I love discussions on RAM and how much RAM and average user needs

 

I would have gone with the second one.

The space is quite useful, whereas you don't really need 8GB of RAM for the things you've listed.

As much as the SSD is technically upgradeable, there are very few people who actually bother.

Using an external drive (unless for backup), defeats the point of having a laptop computer.

 

me, too.

We have to add though that the op here just wants spend some cash.
Economicaly speaking he would be best served with a nice ipad air.

 

considering they had no issues with the 4GB Viao not sure the need for quadruple the RAM, I would of went for the larger SSD but thats just me

 

I think that is the wise move. You can always increase storage space by buying a cheap external USB3.0 drive or by replacing the SSD drive with a bigger unit in the future ( check EBay, the 512GB is about $500).