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Should I get the Haswell rMBP

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Wilsoncw1997

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Currently I am using the first gen rMBP, which is max out. I am pretty happy with it because of the 16gb ram that it has and it could handle multiple task such as Lightroom exporting and FCPX exporting.

However, the part that I am not so happy is the GPU(650m). It is okay when I do task that can wait I.e export and rendering. The part which is not okay is when it comes to gaming. I play only battlefield 4 on it, and the current rMBP can play at 1920 x1200 at some max and medium setting with little AA. By the way this overclocked with MSI which it is around 40-50 FPS.

So my question is: is it worth it to get the new rMBP with 750m and upgraded CPU. OR should I wait for maxwell GPU which uses unified memory in the 2014 rMBP?
 
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I'd wait given that you'll not really see a huge difference in performance, even if the dGPU is better in the 2013 rMBPs
 
Wilsoncw1997 said:
Currently I am using the first gen rMBP, which is max out. I am pretty happy with it because of the 16gb ram that it has and it could handle multiple task such as Lightroom exporting and FCPX exporting.

However, the part that I am not so happy is the GPU(650m). It is okay when I do task that can wait I.e export and rendering. The part which is not okay is when it comes to gaming. I play only battlefield 4 on it, and the current rMBP can play at 1920 x1200 at some max and medium setting with little AA. By the way this overclocked with MSI which it is around 40-50 FPS.

So my question is: is it worth it to get the new rMBP with 750m and upgraded CPU. OR should I wait for maxwell GPU which uses unified memory in the 2014 rMBP?
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Gpu got nothing to do with rendering, that task is CPU intensive. In my opinion you can't do games that well on mac. How much money would you need to invest to get new rMBP?
 
I know that gaming on a mac, with windows, is not that worth it. However I like mac because I like osx when I do simple and other task with it, and at the same time can run windows to ONLY play games. $2100 I can spend
 
Wilsoncw1997 said:
W-T-F!!!!! Okay I am so not getting the new one if it is the same chip. Thanks man.
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Yeah it'd be stupid to get the new one unless you have a high income and really just want to.

Only real advantage I see overall is the faster RAM, but that's not worth the $400+ conversion you'd be making for it. The 750M is not a notable upgrade over the 650M.
 
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