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Who buys the MBP 13"?
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I have a 2012 13 base MBP which I got about 6 months ago.
I got it because I could upgrade it down the line with an SSD and RAM when i need it. The base 13 air would have been 1299 with 8 GB ram which was just a bit to much for the time and I wanted more than 128 GB of storage which would have put the price out of question.
If I were buying today though I'd go with the base 13 MBA with 8 GB RAM because it would be the same price as the MBP at 1199 and because internal storage isn't as big a deal to me now as it was then. And I've been craving the MBA form factor.
It's whatever though I'll just upgrade in 3-4 years to whatever crazy macs are out then. Retina display, quad-core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD standard
I got it because I could upgrade it down the line with an SSD and RAM when i need it. The base 13 air would have been 1299 with 8 GB ram which was just a bit to much for the time and I wanted more than 128 GB of storage which would have put the price out of question.
If I were buying today though I'd go with the base 13 MBA with 8 GB RAM because it would be the same price as the MBP at 1199 and because internal storage isn't as big a deal to me now as it was then. And I've been craving the MBA form factor.
It's whatever though I'll just upgrade in 3-4 years to whatever crazy macs are out then. Retina display, quad-core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD standard
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alot of people. I had a friend who worked in a premium reseller she told me the 13" mbp base sell like hot cakes then the mba the last to go are the 15" as people go for portability more then specs while price being the biggest factor. Only people who do professional work or have $$ buy the 15 inch.
Right now that would be people with $999.99 to spend on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD101LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B0074703CM
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD101LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B0074703CM
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It's the footprint really - the 15" actually feels lighter to me (less dense) and is better value but I went 13" anyway.
Reason being it's powerful enough for my needs, is compact enough for couch surfing and I have a 24" monitor for when I do real work on it.
Quad core would be nice but I think most just want to believe they require MOAR power.
I second that!
I bought mine May last year (right before the 2012 models came out, but I was afraid they're gonna pull it out in favor of Retinas and didn't want to risk that
I've swapped the HDD, added RAM and I love it! Well a couple of months later I found a great deal on 15" cMBP (with 2 SSDs, 1GB VRAM, high res) - 1 year old, but in perfect condition and... I couldn't resist
I know I could probably do just fine with the 15" alone, but I like to have separate home and out of home computers. That's just the way my old fashioned brain works
Before my turn to Mac I had a stationery PC + a netbook (man, that was a horrible idea, when I think about it now. That tiny 10" screen and cramped keyboardAnyways the 15" is my main machine (with SSD and the 750GB HDD I took out of the 13"), hooked up to a TBD and the 13" is my "the on the go" laptop. And it handles pretty much everything I need it to handle - InDesign and Photoshop are the most "extreme" tasks I throw at it, but that's what I need it for. To start something, to try out or develop some ideas, that I then finish on the 15". And it just works. And with the SSD and 8GB RAM I can't find a usage that would make him stutter, so it suits me just fine.
Of course it's not the best gaming machine, so that's a job for the 15" to handle my very occasional gaming (Colin MacRae, F1, Shank etc
I own a 13" MacBook Pro, Early 2011 and one of the main reasons for my purchase was the price. Since I purchased it, I have doubled the RAM and also installed a 480GB SSD to speed it up. While I would have liked to have gone for a bigger screen, I felt that the extra size would have just made using it harder for me. I wanted something that was portable which the 13" is.
It has served me well so far and I'm sure it will continue to serve me well, well into the future!
I mainly use mine to record DJ mixes and radio broadcasting (both using the built in line-in input), and also blogging.
It has served me well so far and I'm sure it will continue to serve me well, well into the future!
I mainly use mine to record DJ mixes and radio broadcasting (both using the built in line-in input), and also blogging.
