hello, im looking at ugrading from a 2013 13" macbook air and it is slow its only got 4gb of ram and a 128gb ssd. it is slow! i want to upgrade to eaither a 2012 15" unibody macbook pro with a 1gb gpu or a 2013 15" macbook pro. my question is my budget is $400 and i dont know what to get i want a 2012 unibody macbook pro but i know those have gpu issues right? otherwise its a 2013 15" macbook pro. what do you guys say?
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2013 15" macbook pro and 4k video editing?
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No, the 2012 Unibody MBPs do not have the infamous "Radeongate" GPU issue, that is on the 2011 15/17" MBPs.
Here's the question - do you want upgradability? If so, get the unibody with only 1 GB of VRAM (you HAVE to get the 2.6 GHz Core i7 configuration to get 1 GB - otherwise it's 512 MB of VRAM in lower configs). If not, get the 2013 15".
I know for a fact that the 2012 MBP will NOT handle 4K at the full resolution (I've tried 4K 60 fps on a 2012 27" iMac with the max configuration - 32 GB of RAM, 3.5 GHz i7, and the GTX 680MX with 2 GB of VRAM, and that BARELY worked) - so I'd imagine the unibody would definitely not do it at full-res.
Be ready to:
Hope this helps!
Here's the question - do you want upgradability? If so, get the unibody with only 1 GB of VRAM (you HAVE to get the 2.6 GHz Core i7 configuration to get 1 GB - otherwise it's 512 MB of VRAM in lower configs). If not, get the 2013 15".
I know for a fact that the 2012 MBP will NOT handle 4K at the full resolution (I've tried 4K 60 fps on a 2012 27" iMac with the max configuration - 32 GB of RAM, 3.5 GHz i7, and the GTX 680MX with 2 GB of VRAM, and that BARELY worked) - so I'd imagine the unibody would definitely not do it at full-res.
Be ready to:
- Turn down the resolution to half, or even quarter if you add multiple streams, effects, etc.
- Do some background rendering when you edit (especially if you use Davinci Resolve like I do)
Hope this helps!
The other thing that's SUPER IMPORTANT if you go with the 2013 15" is that the lower-end configs have ONLY integrated graphics! You will have to go with at least a 2.3 GHz i7 to get the dedicated graphics. I don't think the 2 GHz configuration has the dGPU.
