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I'm not sure why you'd want to trade, the biggest killer would be the 8 GB non upgradable ram. Ouch. You can upgrade the macbook pro to 16GB and throw in a SSD
by chadcf 13y ago
I'm not sure why you'd want to trade, the biggest killer would be the 8 GB non upgradable ram. Ouch. You can upgrade the macbook pro to 16GB and throw in a SSD and your complaints will be gone. And yes, this will cost a bit more than the dell but you'll get a bigger screen out of it at least. My machine is upgraded to 16GB and a 500GB SSD and it's worth every penny. If you are ok with a 250GB SSD you can do it even cheaper (last year, I paid about $80 for the 16GB of ram and $500 for the 500GB SSD, 250GB SSD is significantly cheaper)
- gfosco 13y agoI have the 15" Retina MBP with 16GB RAM and an upgraded CPU... It's incredible and I love working on it. Ordering a machine with 4GB RAM now is asking for trouble, no matter the OS.
- wazoox 13y agoAll my linux desktops do perfectly fine with 2 GB. Mac OS X is a slow memory hog, face it. That's one of the reasons I've bought the XPS 13 to replace my old macbook: with similar hardware my linux machines feel just much, much faster than my mac.
- bdcravens 13y agoI have the exact same setup. While the rMBP is tempting, I think I could keep this for a while, as I don't know that I could get much better performance with anything else.