In fact, even though I’ve written about all of these things, none of the machines I own include them. It doesn’t have modern technologies like Handoff, a Retina display, USB 3, or Thunderbolt of any variety.
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My 2010 MacBook Pro has served me well, but it’s old. It’s not like the machine won’t get used. 
At the top of my list, and certainly one of the most important factors, is that I spend all of my professional time on my Mac. Here we go (generally in no particular order): Now I’m looking at the first week of December. If I’d gone through these mental exercises in the hours after the machines were announced, I’d be getting one two weeks earlier. But I thought that posting my thought process might help other people who are also weighing many of the same questions. Let me reinforce that this is my situation I’m not trying to be universal or tell you what to buy. As I was deliberating, I wrote up the following list of reasons this MacBook Pro, at this time, is the new computer for me. That initiated a lot of internal analysis.Īnd I still bought one. I realized that I could buy an existing 27-inch 5K iMac (announced last year) and a new base 13-inch MacBook for roughly the same price. Macs have often cost more (although just as often they shake out pretty even or better when you configure competitors’ low-priced computers evenly), but these are definitely a few hundred dollars more than previous models. We’ve since learned that the limit is due to a Intel’s memory chips to maintain acceptable battery life using the available processors.Īlso, these new models are expensive. 
The 16 GB RAM limit was the first thing to make me pause my current machine is maxed out at 8 GB and I often hit that ceiling when I’m editing photos and running many applications in the background. But like a lot of people, I didn’t order one right away.
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