My sister is going back to nursing school and since she has a dinky 2011 macbook air 11in laptop. I was thinking of letting her have my laptop for the 2-4 years she's going back to school. I currently have a 2017 Macbook Pro 128gb SSD. I use my iphone xs max and iPad Pro 11 95% of the time but I do need a laptop for the 5%. I have an external 2tb harddrive I use to store music, photos, etc... movies as well. Its kinda annoying to offload stuff but that's what 128gb gets me.
I have a side consulting gig that I do for 2-4x a year and that involves using page documents, pdf, online research online, and synthesizing information with interviews to write a report. That's one thing I need laptop for.
I was thinking about a 2015 macbook pro 15 inch. One, is I want a mac that I can keep long term and store music, pictures, movies for a long time, long time. It doesn't make sense to buy new because again I use my ipad and iphone for 95% of my use(there are periods when I do not even use my macbook for months). That's one reason why I want 1tb ssd for that reason.
Some things that might be of concern is, on rare occasions, it doesn't happen too much, I might take the laptop to work. Some times I might work in my car and type documents for 30mins to an hr. But that's a few handful of times that's happened. I'm not used to a big laptop. I don't think I've owned a 15 inch laptop in over 13 yrs! I always buy 13 inch. Also I like to work on coffee shops when I do this consulting work so the size might be a bummer (gotta reward myself with a latte for working on the weekends). One thing that stinks is I'm all in on usb-c so that's a bummer to go back to a propriety charging standard.
So does the 15 in macbook pro make sense for me? I figure with 16gb ram, the AMD radeon r9 graphics card m370x it should last me a long time and won't lag. Plus the keyboard is classic and should last me a long long time (unlike my 2017 keyboard which is till covered under the apple keyboard warranty, so I don't trust it long term). Finally having a big screen would be great for working on multiple documents plus a few web browsers.
I'm open to suggestions. Also if you got a 2015 macbook, where did you get it if you bought it used?
I have a side consulting gig that I do for 2-4x a year and that involves using page documents, pdf, online research online, and synthesizing information with interviews to write a report. That's one thing I need laptop for.
I was thinking about a 2015 macbook pro 15 inch. One, is I want a mac that I can keep long term and store music, pictures, movies for a long time, long time. It doesn't make sense to buy new because again I use my ipad and iphone for 95% of my use(there are periods when I do not even use my macbook for months). That's one reason why I want 1tb ssd for that reason.
Some things that might be of concern is, on rare occasions, it doesn't happen too much, I might take the laptop to work. Some times I might work in my car and type documents for 30mins to an hr. But that's a few handful of times that's happened. I'm not used to a big laptop. I don't think I've owned a 15 inch laptop in over 13 yrs! I always buy 13 inch. Also I like to work on coffee shops when I do this consulting work so the size might be a bummer (gotta reward myself with a latte for working on the weekends). One thing that stinks is I'm all in on usb-c so that's a bummer to go back to a propriety charging standard.
So does the 15 in macbook pro make sense for me? I figure with 16gb ram, the AMD radeon r9 graphics card m370x it should last me a long time and won't lag. Plus the keyboard is classic and should last me a long long time (unlike my 2017 keyboard which is till covered under the apple keyboard warranty, so I don't trust it long term). Finally having a big screen would be great for working on multiple documents plus a few web browsers.
I'm open to suggestions. Also if you got a 2015 macbook, where did you get it if you bought it used?
