Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

better get a new mac though just in case.

My gen1 hasn't missed a beat with anything I've thrown at it in the last year, so I haven't felt the need for 'more'. But I did make sure to get one of the heavier-hitting ones. Work has been large, image-heavy indesign docs, mid-weight illustrator work and batching stuff in PS. I can't see it failing me in the next 12 months either really. Conversely, the Apple wisdom of always buying the best you can probably applies.

No there wasn't an issue with mine, there was just a ruler on the magic mouse in the other room haha

If it is yahoo mail (or similar) you might need to log in to yahoo directly in a browser. Periodically I have to do this, for reasons I can't be bothered to work out.

Conversely, the Apple wisdom of always buying the best you can probably applies.

Which is £1,684 currently. Would you say it's worth that money?

Oooff no, I'd get a pro at that price point. I paid just over 1k for mine which keeps it at the novelty/plaything end of the spectrum so I don't feel bad throwing it around. In terms of value, I'd say this one hits the right balance of power and price (refurb). I prioritise oomph over storage as everything I need ready access to is cloud-based, your needs might be different.

90% of what I do is "as a service", so yes - oomph over storage.

I paid just over 1k for mine which keeps it at the novelty/plaything end of the spectrum

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Hummmmm..... Thanks mate. :-)

I just popped into the Apple Store, the base MacBook and MacBook Pro 13" are really very similar form-wise. Why would one go non-pro unless chasing the last word in weight and size?

Pretty much this - weight and size. The pro is a fair bit heavier though...

Oh man I miss my air, I hope whoever stole it has broken it by now.

Typical workload for me would be a VPN running into our corporate network, Outlook, Excel (sometimes), PowerPoint (a lot), and then a load of browser windows- some internal services, some external such as Salesforce. Nothing taxing, but that said multiple browser windows cause my Air to go at a crawl (4Gb RAM), so as to be practically unusable.

So! MacBook or MacBook Pro?

From a personal standpoint I'm likely to use it to edit or simply mess around with Photographs, and if I ever charge my GoPro again to assemble short video clips to upload to YouTube.

TBH, sound like normal MacBook work fine for you.

2nd this.

I love the MacBooks but see them as back up/secondary machines... a non touch bar MBP has a fair bit more power than a similar priced MacBook...

But if I don't need the power presumably it's just more weight and faster battery drain?

I think the power difference is pretty massive. If I was spending over 1200 on a MacBook I'd prob just drop some more for a MacBook Pro. Especially if it's my only machine. I love MacBooks but wouldn't over invest in one. I'm quite hard on machines though and find all laptops a wee bit under powered.

Ok, to settle this- which would be better for Zwift?

Pro

http://www.designboom.com/technology/jannis-hermanns-lego-macintosh-04-05-2017/

Reminds me of the Elago W3 stand for apple watch

I feel this may be getting out of hand and will therefore go nowhere, however: http://boutique.heathrow.com/technology/apple-macbook-pro-13-with-retina-display-touch-bar-detail

(for those who don't want to click the price is £1,569 for what is £1,749 in the Covent Garden Apple Store currently).

I'm flying to the US soon, this is 10% off Apple Store- something of a pisstake given it's meant to be VAT free, which would be 20% but there you go.

Buy it in the US and it's $1,799 plus sales tax, which (less sales tax as I never know what it is) would be £1,445

Buy it in the US and you also get the Enter key of doom.

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half sized enter key to make you hit backslash all the damn time.