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Your Opinion Of Best Option (Considering Price Diffs)

  • 15" MBP with Vega 16

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  • 15" MBP Refurbished Radeon 560X

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  • 13.3" MBP + eGPU

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boon4376

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Original poster
Nov 15, 2018
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Hey Everyone,

I was holding out for the 15" Macbook Pro with the Vega graphics because I thought that the GPU was important for video editing, however, the more I look into this, the more that I see that the CPU is actually much more important for this purpose, and maybe the GPU is not worth the cost difference.

I use Adobe Premiere.

3 Options
1. Seeing as how a new 15" MBP with Vega 16, 16GB memory, 6-core i7 Processor, and 512GB ssd is over $3,000

2. An equivalent apple certified refurbished from July 2018 is only $2,379 - the only difference being it has Radeon Pro 560X instead of Vega.

3. Or am I unlikely to notice that big of a difference if I instead went with a quad-core 13" MBP with intel iris graphics and maybe getting a an eGPU for faster rendering at home.​

(Would be getting apple care either way - leaning toward refurbished 15" option, but also like the idea of 13" portability + extra power at home for rendering.)
 
I thought both were important but the performance difference between the i7 and the i9 was not much & not worth the extra $$ but I may be wrong. I will still probably go with a Vega and max out the RAM and go 1tb on the ssd
 
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