which Apple Macbook to buy????

almillar

1. Macbook Pros are due an update soon - probably a bad time to buy, you could get a faster computer for the same price by waiting a day, or a week, or a month...
DO NOT buy the MacBook Pro with DVD - it's ancient and not cheap.
That leaves you with the Retina Macbook Pro - that would be the most popular one I guess, and the most powerful. It's the biggest/heaviest of their 13 inch laptops, but everything's relative, and these are still thin, light laptops IMO.
Or the Macbook air - this is thinner, lighter, less powerful with fewer ports and most importantly, loses the Retina screen. You pay a lot for a very thin laptop.
Or the new Macbook. Again it's less powerful, and it's even thinner, but does have a retina display. It doesn't have much travel on the keys because it's so thin. Also only has a USB-C port so you have to be seriously committed to wireless. A big price to pay for a really, really thin computer!

Yolina

I can't help with selecting a mac, but as a photographer I can tell you that a 13" screen for photo editing will be a bit cramped. My laptop is 15" and I really wouldn't want to work on anything smaller. I also have a much larger monitor at home that I use for editing when not out and about.

NeverEnough

Bought a new Macbook Pro with the 3 year John Lewis warranty offer a month ago - its the one with 16GB RAM, 15" though - 13" is just too small in my opinion for serious Photoshop work as its very cramped on such a small screen. The Retina display is wonderful and with 16GB RAM performance is really fast even when rendering HD video.

We have a few ancient Macs in the house as they never seem to die - oldest is a G4 Powermac desktop which still runds perfectly, as does the old G5 Powermac desktop and laptop. Unlike Windows laptops which I don't seem to have much luck with - they seem to last about 18 months -2 years before some terminal event.

zagubov

They keep their usefulness so don't assume you need the newest model, or the newest OS version.

You just don't want one that can't use old USB connections.

Have a look at ebay (use auctionsniper or similar to ensure you get the one you want) . Secondhand can work really well. I love macs but not their prices so I never owned a newly-bought one.

j88kln

I will have a good look around and take the Mrs to the shop so she can see which one she prefers. I only said 13" because my 15 Windows laptop seems big, but I understand you ned a bigger screen for photoshop.

many thanks for all the help and information