Honestly.
I've said on this forum that I'm about to purchase MBP 2018 13" 16/512/i5 but I'm close to abandoning buying Mac completely.
Just looking at plain 'price/value I'm getting' comparison I am not even getting dedicated GPU. In Poland, this MBP with student discount is 10300 PLN. This is, give-or-take 2416 Euro / 2802 USD. That really is a huge amount of money and I am the person that often spends a lot on tech. So for this money, I am NOT getting dedicated GPU. I do get 4-core GPU but in my workflow, I don't get to use 4 cores that often - FCPX utilizes GPU much more than cores/CPU power.
Admittedly it gives me some level of satisfaction to have a machine which looks like that, but I don't think this factor alone is worth it.
I am looking for a new laptop and daily driver in times when I don't have access to my PC. I still have MBP 13" 2012 i5/8/512 but that is mostly owned by my wife and it doesn't work that well, to be honest. Burned pixels are visible on its LCD. When I bought it in 2012 I was sure that it 100% would be a reliable machine, with no audio/any kind of issues. From what I am reading on this forum now is that things are different now - people are only buying new MBP and they're getting replacement after replacement after replacement.
What's your thinking? What would you do in my situation? Open to discussion here.
I've said on this forum that I'm about to purchase MBP 2018 13" 16/512/i5 but I'm close to abandoning buying Mac completely.
Just looking at plain 'price/value I'm getting' comparison I am not even getting dedicated GPU. In Poland, this MBP with student discount is 10300 PLN. This is, give-or-take 2416 Euro / 2802 USD. That really is a huge amount of money and I am the person that often spends a lot on tech. So for this money, I am NOT getting dedicated GPU. I do get 4-core GPU but in my workflow, I don't get to use 4 cores that often - FCPX utilizes GPU much more than cores/CPU power.
Admittedly it gives me some level of satisfaction to have a machine which looks like that, but I don't think this factor alone is worth it.
I am looking for a new laptop and daily driver in times when I don't have access to my PC. I still have MBP 13" 2012 i5/8/512 but that is mostly owned by my wife and it doesn't work that well, to be honest. Burned pixels are visible on its LCD. When I bought it in 2012 I was sure that it 100% would be a reliable machine, with no audio/any kind of issues. From what I am reading on this forum now is that things are different now - people are only buying new MBP and they're getting replacement after replacement after replacement.
What's your thinking? What would you do in my situation? Open to discussion here.