Hi, after saving up from my summer job I wanted to finally buy a laptop with great warrenty coverage. I turned to apple because of their 3 year apple care warrenty. I hope to buy a laptop to cover at least 2 years of my BA left and hopefully! 2 years more for MA. Anyway, I am settled for a 13 inch macbook pro; however idk which is better.
I plan on storing a lot of pictures and documents. The macbook pro is less expensive in terms of storage (500 gb of ram while the retina has like 128 SSD) If I do get the regular macbook, I will boost up to 8gb though.
Also can you recommend a good external hard drive to store pictures for a mac?
Thank you!
Should I buy a macbok pro or macbook pro retina?
2014-08-20 3:14 am
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2014-08-20 8:21 am
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The good thing about the retina one is its screen resolution and lighter weight (no in-bulit DVD). It's storage is SSD, so the boot-up / shutdown speed is very fast. The price of external harddisk is very cheap these days, you can expand your storage easily. Or if you don't like carrying the weight of an external harddisk, you can consider some SD card or USB flash drive, some fast speed models are available at reasonable price.For the MacBook Pro, its 500G harddisk can be upgraded to SSD also. My MacBook Pro has a much faster boot-up/shutdown time after changing to SSD. It's worth the money.
For the MBP, you can change the harddisk to SSD by yourself, can choose the SSD brand and size you like and install it by yourself (or a friend). But for the retina one, it's soldered on the motherboard, you can't upgrade it, you have to make the decision on the storage size when buy. The same for the memory also, the retina has the memory soldered on the motherboard, can't upgrade later. The earlier model MBP allow adding memory by yourself, I don't know about this year's model.
Every year Apple has the back-to-school promotion at summer, you can get ~$100-$200 off.
2014-08-20 10:24 am
well, the regular macbook pro is excellent in every way. the new ones (retina) have 'flash drive' (not SSD) which is amazingly good cos they'll never fade (unlike SSD). The screen is amazing as well, if you have an iPhone 5, imagine that, but at 13 inches. However, that said, the old Pro has a lot more storage, which is an advantage if you want to store a lot of pictures.
But, if you get the retina ones, you won't need to boost your RAM to 8gb; the RAM will use your regular hard drive (SSD) as an external source, and since they both have roughly the same operational speed, you won't need to boost your RAM.
So, my advice would be to buy a retina Pro, and then buy an external HDD (i personally use Western Digital's green alongside a dual port (USB 3.0) to store things). The port costs £30 and the HDD for a 3TB one is roughly £70 on amazon.
But, if you get the retina ones, you won't need to boost your RAM to 8gb; the RAM will use your regular hard drive (SSD) as an external source, and since they both have roughly the same operational speed, you won't need to boost your RAM.
So, my advice would be to buy a retina Pro, and then buy an external HDD (i personally use Western Digital's green alongside a dual port (USB 3.0) to store things). The port costs £30 and the HDD for a 3TB one is roughly £70 on amazon.
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