Who do you think the 2018 13-inch MacBook Pro is for?

[FlushedNotRushed]

Since the 13" now has a quad-core CPU, do you think that alone is worth it to jump from a 2015 13" to a 2018 13"? I can get the laptop for about $1880 new out the door, which is much cheaper than the $2,183.91 from Apple.

Was going to get the 13" base with upgraded 16GB RAM. From my understanding as well, I'll be able to sell this laptop in 2020 when the new shell comes out anywhere from 1300-1700$ depending on quality, which means I only use $~400 for 2 years of use. But then again, we're not positive on what the resale prices will be.

Regardless, I've read the 13" has less problems then the 15" as well as the 13" is the laptop to buy from a price-point type of view.

Any suggestions or feedback would be great. Thanks.

 

[Howard2k]

Since the 13" now has a quad-core CPU, do you think that alone is worth it to jump from a 2015 13" to a 2018 13"? I can get the laptop for about $1880 new out the door, which is much cheaper than the $2,183.91 from Apple.

Was going to get the 13" base with upgraded 16GB RAM. From my understanding as well, I'll be able to sell this laptop in 2020 when the new shell comes out anywhere from 1300-1700$ depending on quality, which means I only use $~400 for 2 years of use. But then again, we're not positive on what the resale prices will be.

Regardless, I've read the 13" has less problems then the 15" as well as the 13" is the laptop to buy from a price-point type of view.

Any suggestions or feedback would be great. Thanks.

I would not, not unless you have a pressing need, and assuming your 2015 is working great.

There are some issues with the 2018s and it's not clear how large those are (kernel panics, keyboard issues, sound problems). It'll also run hotter. So if you're not hurting for CPU cycles, it seems like a bit of a risk IMO.

I have the 2015 13" and I'm tempted, but considering that what I have now works great (apart from Mojave's absurd sleep issues), it seems like a lot of risk for two extra cores and that extra heat. And I believe I'd still have the sleep issues.

If my 2015 died tomorrow I'd hang on until next week and see what the new 13" is.

I'm not heavy on the CPU though. I do some Lightroom stuff but it doesn't really matter to me whether it takes me 2 seconds or 4 seconds to tweak a photo. Or whether it takes 5 minutes or 10 minutes to render a video. That's not worth a significant investment in real money for me right now. It is important that my machine is stable and reliable.

 

[FlushedNotRushed]

I would not, not unless you have a pressing need, and assuming your 2015 is working great.

There are some issues with the 2018s and it's not clear how large those are (kernel panics, keyboard issues, sound problems). It'll also run hotter. So if you're not hurting for CPU cycles, it seems like a bit of a risk IMO.

I have the 2015 13" and I'm tempted, but considering that what I have now works great (apart from Mojave's absurd sleep issues), it seems like a lot of risk for two extra cores and that extra heat. And I believe I'd still have the sleep issues.

If my 2015 died tomorrow I'd hang on until next week and see what the new 13" is.

I'm not heavy on the CPU though. I do some Lightroom stuff but it doesn't really matter to me whether it takes me 2 seconds or 4 seconds to tweak a photo. Or whether it takes 5 minutes or 10 minutes to render a video. That's not worth a significant investment in real money for me right now. It is important that my machine is stable and reliable.

If I boughtt the 18 13" MBP, I'll be after the October Event to see what they say.

But from my understanding, Apple won't do a redesign to fix the 2018 soon, So I'm assuming their aiming towards software to fix these issues.

If there are no announcements / updates of the MBP / Macbooks that catch my eye in the OCtober event, I'll probably buy the 2018 13" MBP.

 

[artnoi]

Well I’m not really a power user who does a lot of demanding jobs but from my computing experience I just feel like the 12” MB and the Air won’t be quick enough for some jobs. I’m a finance student though, not a pro user.

In my everyday, I’m one of those folks who, when working, just open everything from Safari with 10+ tabs to Excel sheets and PowerPoint slides, while downloading torrents or streaming Tidal (flac/acc) in the background. The quad-core model feels much snappier than my gf’s Air and gets much less beach balls when I work like this.

I just use it for all kinds of work - from audio encoding (I have a ver large audio library that’s constantly growing and a wide variety of audio/video hardware with different target codecs), light video editting (for the assignments). I also archive a lot and my computer still gets 90c when compressing large file using 7zip/xz. Now that I’m learning python and Swift, faster computer is a bless for me to see the results more instantly though.

My compliant even for this light use case is that my little ‘pro’ laptop still gets uncomfortably hot on my laps every damn time here in Bangkok.