rMBP 13 or 15 inch

It depends on how much horsepower you want.

Why did you sell your 15" rMBP? The Haswell version has not even launched yet. What will you do if Apple decides to launch it later this year?

Anyway, the 13" and the 15" rMBP are two different laptops. Do you want portability? Or do you prefer a larger screen and more horsepower?

 

We have both a 2013 15" and a 13" both base models. For basic use there is no difference i can see. The 13" is great for moving around the house which is my wife's. My 15" spends most of its time on my desk. I have a 09 27" imac too and much prefer the 15" Retina, the imac is just for tv/movies/ live webcasts now. MBPr for everything else.

 

Well the new processors are only supposed to be more energy efficient, not really any faster, so don't expect a big change in speed, especially since you mentioned the difference between 8 gb and 16 gb is not much.

Why don't you get something touchscreen since you already have an imac?

 

defo 15" rMBP, the 13" is seriously underpowered...at least for the current early 2013 model.

 

If you like that ThunderBolt display, and you prefer larger screens... you're going to have a hard time staring down at a 13" MacBook Pro with Retina (or without). Try looking at one for a while. It's painful. The resolution isn't there.

 

If you don't know, how are we supposed to suggest what's best for you?

What confuses me more than anything is that you just sold your rMBP and then say you really want a laptop.

I'd suggest seeing a doctor perhaps?

 

That's a good one.

 

How can total strangers in a forum even pretend to know your workflow? We aren't you.

 

I've been going over this for a long time.

I think best value option is between 15 pro or 11/13 air.

I've been wanting rmbp 13 initially and kept that thought until recently.

The lack of quad on 13 disqualifies it from pro in by book.

If you require 13 and don't mind spending more on the 13pro, you won't get the best value, but you will get what you want.

 

Seriously underpowered for what? I do everything on it including photo processing and videos. Is the 15" faster? Yes. But I tried one and other than batch processing the difference is not much.

 

handling photos with resolution above 4k, i find it laggy while trying to process large amount of layers at the same time.

 

Being slower than the fastest machine available does't make it too slow. According to this forum, nobody did any professional work until quad cores and the fastest discrete GPUs were invented. Everything is relative and some find the far more portable 13" to be better than larger machines for those reasons. If pure speed were the issue, I'd never get any of the laptops, but a maxed out desktop machine.