Friends,
I teach at a college and my mid-2011 MBA is getting slow. I have need something that can sometimes handle the creation, editing, and exporting/uploading of online lectures. My other needs include reading and editing large .pdfs for research, typical MSOffice apps, and using Lightroom.
I have a 2017 27" iMac that has been serving me well, but I took it home to replace the family's mid-2011 21" iMac. I need something more mobile for bringing to the classroom, to the library, to the conference, etc.
The laptop keyboard refresh has me interested in Macbooks again. What do you recommend here? I hold onto my computers for a long time, as you can see.
I suppose if need be, I could use the iMac to record lectures at home if we transition to some version of online education. Most likely we will have synchronous online courses, so perhaps recording videos is not even that important.
My thought is to buy the higher-end MBP 13" with the faster processor, faster RAM, and better cooling. I would love the bigger screen of the 16", however, since I do a lot of translating and it is handy to have the source .pdf on one side of the screen with Word in the parallel window. This is what I do on my iMac anyway. I am also worried that the battery life on the 16" is not going to last me all day.
Speaking of the battery, perhaps it is foolish to hold onto a MBP for so long, since the battery will degrade. Can the batteries even be replaced on these MBPs? I am losing track of what cannot be replaced in these things.
I teach at a college and my mid-2011 MBA is getting slow. I have need something that can sometimes handle the creation, editing, and exporting/uploading of online lectures. My other needs include reading and editing large .pdfs for research, typical MSOffice apps, and using Lightroom.
I have a 2017 27" iMac that has been serving me well, but I took it home to replace the family's mid-2011 21" iMac. I need something more mobile for bringing to the classroom, to the library, to the conference, etc.
The laptop keyboard refresh has me interested in Macbooks again. What do you recommend here? I hold onto my computers for a long time, as you can see.
I suppose if need be, I could use the iMac to record lectures at home if we transition to some version of online education. Most likely we will have synchronous online courses, so perhaps recording videos is not even that important.
My thought is to buy the higher-end MBP 13" with the faster processor, faster RAM, and better cooling. I would love the bigger screen of the 16", however, since I do a lot of translating and it is handy to have the source .pdf on one side of the screen with Word in the parallel window. This is what I do on my iMac anyway. I am also worried that the battery life on the 16" is not going to last me all day.
Speaking of the battery, perhaps it is foolish to hold onto a MBP for so long, since the battery will degrade. Can the batteries even be replaced on these MBPs? I am losing track of what cannot be replaced in these things.