Which 15" Macbook Pro?

Mr_Singleton

Looking to get a 15" Mac book pro but was was suprised at the price range for what seems like very little difference.

Cheapest is £1600 with the most expensive being £2550.

Can anyone recommend the price sweet spot. Looking mainly to edit video.
Thanka

shortchanged_2

Just go for the most expensive one it will make you feel better.

Mr_Singleton

But would a cheaper one do just a good a job?

TadleyBaggie

If your not doing graphic intensive work on it, go with the low end models with just the integrated graphics chip. Smaller SSD will also save money, depends on what you need.

DevCoder

Personally Id go at least 8GB / 512SSD as both can't be upgraded after the event. The cMBP is no longer produced and the rMBP ram is soldered onboard.

The iris pro dGPU versus integrated is down to what you intend to do with the machine.

RobTang

All of them come with 16gb ram now so you don't have a choice in that matter.


I'd probably pick the £2k one, 512gb drive 2.5ghz i7 gt750m, many video encoding packages support CUDA so the gfx card is useful even if you don't play games.


All of them will do the same job however and none are exactly slow, so I would advise to get the cheapest one with the 512gb drive.

Mr_Singleton

Thanks everyone for the comments.

Went to my local Apple store on Sunday to get a bit more info from 1 of the geniuses and then buy the one for me.

Genius confirmed that NOTHING in the MBP was upgradeable so what I bought now would stay with me till I changed it.

Decided with that in mind to order a pretty high spec machine with Apple Care and a portable 4tb thunderbolt HD.

Guy got it all together and I had my CC out ready to pay when he said "Right that's £3200 in total" it was kinda like being punched in the face. Went over the individual costs and the total was correct. Decided I needed to sleep on it.

I won a Mac book a few years ago so all my software is Mac re-buying it for a PC isn't really cost effective. Knew it wasn't going to be cheap but feel as if I'm being mugged.

zarf2007

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Thanks everyone for the comments.

Went to my local Apple store on Sunday to get a bit more info from 1 of the geniuses and then buy the one for me.

Genius confirmed that NOTHING in the MBP was upgradeable so what I bought now would stay with me till I changed it.

Decided with that in mind to order a pretty high spec machine with Apple Care and a portable 4tb thunderbolt HD.

Guy got it all together and I had my CC out ready to pay when he said "Right that's £3200 in total" it was kinda like being punched in the face. Went over the individual costs and the total was correct. Decided I needed to sleep on it.

I won a Mac book a few years ago so all my software is Mac re-buying it for a PC isn't really cost effective. Knew it wasn't going to be cheap but feel as if I'm being mugged.

I think if you replaced the thunderbolt storage with this for a slight reduction in speed you would get the price down to a reasonable level:


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Studio-4TB-Desktop-Storage/dp/B00FGKESKC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1414435680&sr=8-5&keywords=External+usb3+4tb

shortchanged_2

zarf2007 wrote: »

I think if you replaced the thunderbolt storage with this for a slight reduction in speed you would get the price down to a reasonable level:


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Studio-4TB-Desktop-Storage/dp/B00FGKESKC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1414435680&sr=8-5&keywords=External+usb3+4tb

Not really, you always get mugged buying apple.

Handsome90

shortchanged wrote: »

Not really, you always get mugged buying apple.

If you compare like for like Macbook Pros or Mac Pros, they cost similar amount.