Thoughts of Avid running on new 13'' MBP?

[Funkyboss]

my old 2011 15'' MBP finally crapped out. I was running premiere, photoshop, after effects, avid and it was hot, noisy as hell, and somewhat slow and laggy but worked fine considering how old it was and also considering I was using premiere to export 5 minute(at most) videos on premiere and avid as well. I never had to do intense hour long, 4K, crazy videos. Unfortunately I am heavily constricted by my budget so I was looking at the new 13'' MBP, this one:
Touch Bar and Touch ID
2.3GHz Quad-Core Processor
512GB Storage

• 2.3GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor
• Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz
• Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
• 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory
• 512GB SSD storage1
• Retina display with True Tone
• Touch Bar and Touch ID
• Four Thunderbolt 3 ports

and boosting the memory to 16gb. Now I don't want to spend money on a new MBP and have it be really slow and laggy but I'm also fine with it to be "regular" to use to start on projects and then finish on stronger machines. I don't see the 13'' MBP on the qualified list of laptops but neither was my 2011 MBP. Basically, I'm on a tight on budget and would the new 13'' laptop to work better than my old 2011 MBP. Any thoughts?

 

[mikethebigo]

It will definitely be much better than your 2011.

That config (i5/16/512) seems to be the most favored configuration around here. I think it will do you well.

 

[Frieg]

Try this first:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/you-think-yer-old-macbook-is-slow-nope-chuck-te-hermalpaste

Felt like i bought a newer macbook afterwards

 

[Funkyboss]

Try this first:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/you-think-yer-old-macbook-is-slow-nope-chuck-te-hermalpaste

Felt like i bought a newer macbook afterwards

The thing is I really don't know what I'm doing with these things. I know how to turn these things on and use the software that I need.

it goes like this - MBP would start up and progress bar would go and then it would start over and over again, few days later i would turn it on and now progress bar would start but then not start over it would just shut off. did everything apple asked me to do over chat support, still nothing, pressing cmd r wouldnt bring up macos utilities it would just turn the screen grey as if macos utilities were coming up but it never did. couldnt bring it in to a apple store cuz applechat said the MBP is too old service in the stores

took is somewhere and they said hard drive is messed, but I thought it was too expensive to recover files and put in new hard drive.

So i purchased an OWS SSD drive and that took me like 3 days to install cuz I dont know what I'm doing, I tried booting up high sierra on a USB but macos utilities said it was a damaged copy. downloaded another copy but the OWS SSD wasn't recognized so again not knowing what I'm doing I formatted it to AFPS, i had no idea what I was doing. finally i was able to load high sierra to the new hard drive that was finally being recognized. it finally booted but it has trouble starting up, like it restarts a few times on start up, and then finally when its running it'll randomly freeze or randomly restart or randomly shut down.

it was too expensive for to me fix, investing in a new one i believe is the better option, i wish i saw this before my MBP started acting up

 

[Frieg]

The thing is I really don't know what I'm doing with these things. I know how to turn these things on and use the software that I need.

it goes like this - MBP would start up and progress bar would go and then it would start over and over again, few days later i would turn it on and now progress bar would start but then not start over it would just shut off. did everything apple asked me to do over chat support, still nothing, pressing cmd r wouldnt bring up macos utilities it would just turn the screen grey as if macos utilities were coming up but it never did. couldnt bring it in to a apple store cuz applechat said the MBP is too old service in the stores

took is somewhere and they said hard drive is messed, but I thought it was too expensive to recover files and put in new hard drive.

So i purchased an OWS SSD drive and that took me like 3 days to install cuz I dont know what I'm doing, I tried booting up high sierra on a USB but macos utilities said it was a damaged copy. downloaded another copy but the OWS SSD wasn't recognized so again not knowing what I'm doing I formatted it to AFPS, i had no idea what I was doing. finally i was able to load high sierra to the new hard drive that was finally being recognized. it finally booted but it has trouble starting up, like it restarts a few times on start up, and then finally when its running it'll randomly freeze or randomly restart or randomly shut down.

it was too expensive for to me fix, investing in a new one i believe is the better option, i wish i saw this before my MBP started acting up

Sounds like you never looked into the logs what actually caused the sudden restarts, right? Thats the first place to look, but if the system doesn't boot you have to boot from usb and then know your stuff a bit with terminal commands... but no fancy stuff, not that hard