Which one to keep? 2015 Pro vs 2017 Macbook

[itzme]

So I sold my broken MacBook, went to windows, missed Mac iOS and thus decided to come back. Went to eBay to purchase and and the same time won two auctions with a low best offer. They both came in today. Set up fine on iCloud ect. I will keep one and sell the other.

So I bought;

MacBook Pro Retina early 2015-2.7gz 128gb. Only 83 battery cycles. Has AppleCare plus for a few more months. Education surplus a bit scratched but overall no dents looks good.

MacBook 12 inch 2017 model. 36 battery cycles. Still under warranty. Can buy square trade warranty or Apple plus care if I desire. Absolutely pristine. M3 8 ram 256 gen hard drive.

I have a 12 iPad and a older 9.7 iPad Pro so the 12 kinda duplicates the macbook 12.

Pro for 12
Size is cute and it’s new
Cons
The dreaded keyboard issues, underpowered. Lack of ports does not bother me as it came with a few.

Pros for 13
Size is nice. Still pretty new. Feels sturdier
Cons
Is used, might not be supported as long.

I could keep them both as my teens would like that and I got both of them for a total of 800.

 

[itzme]

So I sold my broken MacBook, went to windows, missed Mac iOS and thus decided to come back. Went to eBay to purchase and and the same time won two auctions with a low best offer. They both came in today. Set up fine on iCloud ect. I will keep one and sell the other.

So I bought;

MacBook Pro Retina early 2015-2.7gz 128gb. Only 83 battery cycles. Has AppleCare plus for a few more months. Education surplus a bit scratched but overall no dents looks good.

MacBook 12 inch 2017 model. 36 battery cycles. Still under warranty. Can buy square trade warranty or Apple plus care if I desire. Absolutely pristine. M3 8 ram 256 gen hard drive.

I have a 12 iPad and a older 9.7 iPad Pro so the 12 kinda duplicates the macbook 12.

Pro for 12
Size is cute and it’s new
Cons
The dreaded keyboard issues, underpowered. Lack of ports does not bother me as it came with a few.

Pros for 13
Size is nice. Still pretty new. Feels sturdier
Cons
Is used, might not be supported as long.

I could keep them both as my teens would like that and I got both of them for a total of 800.

[doublepost=1533385846][/doublepost]Bump anyone? Cant make up mind.
[doublepost=1533386099][/doublepost]I ama lightweight consumer. One child is a CS major. The other heavily into music and art creation.

 

[Fishrrman]

Keep the MacBook for yourself (the lightweight consumer).

Give the MBPro to the "music and art" kid.

Buy another MBPro for the CS major.

Problems -- solved.

 

[Howard2k]

MBPro scores 3548 vs the MacBook which scores 3522, so on paper they're very close, but the MBPro has active cooling so will be able to maintain higher clock rates for longer.

But could you manage with 128GB SSD? I am running 256GB and I'm a pretty light user. I offload a good amount of data to NAS so 256GB works well. But I don't think I'd enjoy juggling everything with just 128GB of local storage.

If I was running regular sustained heavy tasks and I cared about how long they took to execute, I would lean to the MBPro perhaps. In fact, I have this same MBPro but with 256m and I love it.

But if I was just doing light tasks and was ok with the questionable keyboard and smaller screen, I think the 256GB would swing it for me.

If they were both 256GB it would be the MBPro for me. But that 128GB is just the deal breaker for me in this case. Even with options for NAS, external storage etc.

 

[smbu2000]

Well if you need more storage on the MBP, then you can use something like a Nifty Minidrive (or equivalent) to "add" storage via micro sd.

When I was using a late 2013 13" 256GB MBP I picked up a Minidrive and 128GB micro sd card to use as my music "itunes library" and for other misc. files, leaving my main drive for the OS/applications, etc.

 

[itzme]

Keep the MacBook for yourself (the lightweight consumer).

Give the MBPro to the "music and art" kid.

Buy another MBPro for the CS major.

Problems -- solved.

Keep them all and then spend more! It’s the Apple way!
[doublepost=1533395306][/doublepost]I ordered a micro drive so I do have that coming.
[doublepost=1533395468][/doublepost]The 12’’ 2nd gen iPad Pro is very nice for a 2nd monitor using duet and it works very nicely on Remote Desktop. I have a swift point and cintrix mouse and they work well with the Remote Desktop.
[doublepost=1533395608][/doublepost]We have wireless/bt everything so lack of ports not an issue

Sprung for larger iCloud storage.