Should I upgrade from the 2015 13" MBP?

[KoolAid-Drink]

I'm leaning towards upgrading my 2015 13" MBP (the processor being maxed out with an i7, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of RAM) to the 2020 10th gen i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive. I was holding out on MBP updates due to the butterfly keyboard, but now that Apple is using a better keyboard, I'm leaning.

Would you say it's an substantial upgrade? To my understanding, the camera is the exact same as what I have (720p) and the battery life seems to be similar, but the speed seems better. My 2015 MBP is getting slow and long in the teeth, kind of.

Thanks for your thoughts!

 

[Dhock_Holiday]

Your 2015 is probably still plenty powerful, I would say wait another year. We may be getting a brand new redesign and a larger 14 inch miniLED display next year. While the current 2020 10th Gen. models are a pretty big jump up the design is essentially unchanged since the 2016 MacBooks were released.

 

[glintoz]

I'm leaning towards upgrading my 2015 13" MBP (the processor being maxed out with an i7, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of RAM) to the 2020 10th gen i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive. I was holding out on MBP updates due to the butterfly keyboard, but now that Apple is using a better keyboard, I'm leaning.

Would you say it's an substantial upgrade? To my understanding, the camera is the exact same as what I have (720p) and the battery life seems to be similar, but the speed seems better. My 2015 MBP is getting slow and long in the teeth, kind of.

Thanks for your thoughts!

My 2015 i5 13” just can’t cut it any more. Running a Microsoft teams meeting and it doubles as a hair dryer the fans are at full power and the Cpu is sitting @100+ deg C.

Ordered a new 10th gen i7/32/1TB and it should be delivered on Monday. Based on Geekbench results it is 1.6 times faster single core and nearly 3 times faster multi core so to me that is a worthwhile upgrade.

I don’t get everyone’s worry about a 720p webcam... No one wants to see me in any greater detail. It is for conferencing and is more than ample for my use but YMMV.

 

[ctjack]

I'm leaning towards upgrading my 2015 13" MBP (the processor being maxed out with an i7, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of RAM)

Would you say it's an substantial upgrade?

Here is the video of comparing exactly your Macbook with the i5 base Air:

Not exactly MBP 13 2020 10th gen, but at least gives some idea on how your Mac stands against other Macs in 2020.

 

[nothingtoseehere]

I also have an MBP 13“ early 2015, and I tried the new MBP 2020 10th gen. Returned it after 1 week - of course the new device was a great machine bit it did not wow me enough. Will be sticking with the old one for a while, it is still snappy and can handle all I need (word processing, MS Office in general, VCs, occasional Parallels).

 

[coffeeplease]

I sold my early 2015 13" MBP since it felt sluggish as it was i5 / 8GB. Currently, waiting for the 10th gen i5/16/512 model to arrive. Upgrading from a dual core to quad core processor will definitely speed things up. You already have 16GB of RAM so you can probably get away with it for another year, at least until the rumored 14" models come out, and you can decide then. I'm happy with the current 13" MBP so I bit the bullet instead of waiting.

 

[Zen_Arcade]

I'm leaning towards upgrading my 2015 13" MBP (the processor being maxed out with an i7, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of RAM) to the 2020 10th gen i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive. I was holding out on MBP updates due to the butterfly keyboard, but now that Apple is using a better keyboard, I'm leaning.

Would you say it's an substantial upgrade? To my understanding, the camera is the exact same as what I have (720p) and the battery life seems to be similar, but the speed seems better. My 2015 MBP is getting slow and long in the teeth, kind of.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Go for it. It's a quad core instead of your dual core, the graphics are faster, the RAM is faster, storage is faster, etc. It will show your 2015 a clean pair of heels. I had a 2015 3.1/16/1TB, the 16" that replaced it was a revelation.

One downside is that you have to run Catalina on it; which is why I went with a 2019 16". It's also USB-C only, and the touchbar is a complete waste of time and money.