Those who sell and rebuy every refresh...

[Hydrocity]

Had a 2010MBP and upgraded since the i5 is a significant jump in performance. Lost like 300 ... I know there will be an upgrade to ivy bridge etc but ivy is a speed bump on top of sandy .... while the 2010 model used a core 2 duo which is a downgrade for intense tasks.

For day to day browsing and small tasks, I see NO difference with my 8GB RAM and 120GB SSD setup (2010 vs 2011 MBP). In fact the battery life on my 2010 MBP was a little higher. But on intense tasks like batch editing of photos, the 2011 is noticeably faster!

So if you use it for intense processing workloads, I would say upgrade now and lose 300 odd and keep enjoying the higher performance or upgrade later and lose a little more money but get an even better laptop. It all depends on what you use it for.

Thanks for your post.

I dont know what I want to do yet.

A) Keep things how they are
B) Upgrade to the 2011's
C) Sell my current MBP, buy a PC desktop for gaming/editing and buy a MBA for laptop use.

I will most likely go route A. I may upgrade next gen.

 

[jondob]

For those who sell their previous MBP and buy the new gens, about how much do you lose?

Im thinking about selling my 2010 MBP for a 2011 MBP. I have a couple of reasons:

I think I bought an overkill machine. The specs are in my sig. I think I want to sell and get a lower spec'd machine such as an i5. I may make money out of it, but I dont know because I am selling a used machine.

Second, how would you sell a MBP like mine. I think I bought it for just over $2000. It is a lot of money, which worries me because what if no one wants to spend that much money on a computer.

I have a sata 3 ssd which I can take advantage of in the 2011, where I can not in the 2010.

I was thinking of buying a PC for gaming and either a i5 MBP or Macbook Air. Any ideas?

(I use my MBP for internet, school, documents, email, video, music, a little video editing but I think I may use the PC to do most of the editing)

The i5 is more powerful than your 2010 if I remember, so that doesn't make sense if you're looking to downgrade. I'd look at the new Air if I were you, the Air will be more than enough for what you do.

 

[Hydrocity]

The i5 is more powerful than your 2010 if I remember, so that doesn't make sense if you're looking to downgrade. I'd look at the new Air if I were you, the Air will be more than enough for what you do.

While it may be more powerful, I do believe it will be cheaper. I bought my machine for 2500$ but that included 4gigs of ram, final cut express and iwork.

How is the MBA for editing. What if I prefer editing on Mac OS? would I be screwed with the MBA. (It is not so much editing, but more putting together clips, add a few transitions and text and exporting.)