Replacing my mini with a new machine (after WWDC?)

I'm no patient man. I've been working on this character flaw but still need a bit of help from my friends on this site.

It's time for me to upgrade my Mac mini (2011). While it's a nice little machine and the best I could afford a few years ago, my needs now have outgrown it. I've been creating around 1-3 10 min. video's weekly on this dual core i5 Mac mini with 8GB of RAM without any problems, but I wouldn't have mind it being a little snappier and usable while encoding stuff. But I need (and want) something I can take with me, for myself and some client work.

15 inch machines are both too big and probably too expensive for me. I'm currently looking at the 13 inch rMBP (the more expensive one). I'm a bit hesitant about the Intel HD 4000 though (while it did serve me ok on the mini), but I wouldn't really mind getting something like that Elgato H.264 dongle to take a load of the laptop.

I'm pretty sure I know the right thing to do, wait till after WWDC to see if and what Apple will bump. I've heard new processors should also include better (integrated) graphics, but I'm not sure if we can expect those in the 13" one?

So my question is, am I right to wait till after WWDC or should I spend the coming weeks finding a good deal on the higher end 13" rMBP? Also, it's quite important I buy and pay for a new machine before June 20th (because of tax-deduction reasons). That should give me 10 days after WWDC but only if Apple makes orders available on the (newer) rMBP's.

Also, I'm currently hesitant to buy the rMBP even with a great deal because of what I heard about it not being able to handle scrolling on websites (like G+ and Flickr) properly, anyone able to shed some light on that issue?

Ok thanks so much for reading and hopefully willing to help me figure out the right path to getting my next machine.

 

Fair point, but I hope I made it clear that I don't really dislike current performance of my Mac mini system but I both need a portable machine and something that can handle exporting while allowing me to do simple other tasks (writing and browsing the web). But as it stands, your advice would be to both work on a better workflow (please expand) and search for a good deal on current 13" rMBP machine?

 

Thanks for your responses, much appreciated.

I'm not one who needs to have the newest but when spending a whole bunch of money I don't mind doing the research

Anyone willing to expand a little on the scrolling performance of the 13" rMBP 2.6 256GB option? I really can't image I can't have a nice web experience on a machine this expensive. From what I've read now I would probably run the machine on 1440 x 900 equivalent and I do frequent sites like Google Plus and Flickr.

 

Ok thanks so much for the info.

As it stands I'm now able to order a brand new 13" rMBP 2.6/8GB/256 for about 650 dollars off (I'll spare you the euro tax and conversion calculations). That's including delivery, all in. Since it's the 2.6GHz version I can be sure it's a 2013 model, right?

This seems like a very good deal to me and even with a newer processor I can't really see how it would offset this nice discount I can now get.

 

Thank you very much for the info! Is this like Chrome Canary and it 'auto' updates itself or do I have to download every day to get the newest version?

 

Will do, thank you very much sir

 

Would you guys shed some light on using Chrome on this machine? It might be blasphemy but it's my preferred browser.