Should I go for the 1.2 Macbook?

[nalbagli]

Hi, I am planning on buying the New Macbook, because I absolutely love it but I have doubts mainly because I don't know if the performance would be enough and I hope you can help me. I wanted the 1.3 model but I have not been able to find it so I may be buying a 1.2 from eBay.

I mainly use the computer for college tasks like excel, word and powerpoints (sometimes with large images on PPT). I do light photo editing on Pixelmator, web browsing spotify, sometimes short video editing on iMovie.

I wanted to know if the macbook has enough power to handle this type of activities and not get stuck or too slow. (Mainly on large powerpoint documents as I do a lot of presentations on my mac.)

Thanks

 

[Kristine]

It should be fine. I am doing exactly the same stuff on my MacBook (apart from using iMovie) and I have the base model.

 

[Geert76]

I agree with the poster above me, I think you will be fine with the base model (1,1GHZ) for your needs, and save yourself the extra $$$ for the 1,2GHZ model

 

[dexterbell]

You can easily do all that with the base model.

 

[Suxamethonium]

I have the 1.2 version, more than adequate for all of those things. Just spent today working on a very large presentation for a talk I am giving, was perfect for the task. Now just need the adapter to arrive so I can use the Macbook to actually give the talk!

 

[nalbagli]

Thanks for the answers I was getting ready to order one on eBay that was almost the same price but it was sold, now I am screwed because I am not from the US and I am only going to be there three weeks until the en of may so I can't order it from Apple.

Too bad, I think I'll have to buy the 13 inch MBP Retina

 

[eddiexhart]

Thanks for the answers I was getting ready to order one on eBay that was almost the same price but it was sold, now I am screwed because I am not from the US and I am only going to be there three weeks until the en of may so I can't order it from Apple.

Too bad, I think I'll have to buy the 13 inch MBP Retina

I'm with you on this. I have the 1.1 MacBook but for some reason I'm just not content with it. Its getting perfect use.. RIGHT now. But what if later down the year I need to work on something more intense, I don't think it can handle. Plus I can't justify this 1.1 vs the latest 13" rMBP. the only down side is the smaller HD but everything else is far more superior. It truly is a tough decision.

 

[KPOM]

Thanks for the answers I was getting ready to order one on eBay that was almost the same price but it was sold, now I am screwed because I am not from the US and I am only going to be there three weeks until the en of may so I can't order it from Apple.

Too bad, I think I'll have to buy the 13 inch MBP Retina

Some Best Buy stores have the base model in stock, as do some suppliers on Amazon.

 

[johnparjr]

There in stock at a lot of Apple stores you just need to go in the website doesn't reflect store stock on these