


I think that the things it cannot do are not important for most users. Regarding the first question, yes, it does less but it does it better. But I am not disagreeing, that must be a factor they consider. After all, in the current situation they raised the price of the base (non-mini) iPhone 12 and the base iPad Air. But I don't think they are "too" concerned with that. If you had MBP13 2017(sold until 2019), then you could easily take a hit of selling it as used on ebay and that $200 towards your new 4 core Mac.Ĭlick to expand.That too is a factor. My point here is that sometimes you are better of saving money towards future update rather than internal upgrades. This trick well worked back then but sometimes it fails to work. If you had MBP13 2017(sold until 2019), then you could easily take a hit of selling it as used on ebay and put that $200(RAM price which you didn't spend earlier) towards your new 4 core Mac.īut what was wrong with 20 Retinas? I am still using mine and it even has dual fans for 13 inch as opposed to single in MBP2015. The same goes with M1, M1 with 8 gigs is much better than 4-core MBP with 16gb of RAM. But then they came out with MBP13 2019 4-core with 8gb RAM ran circles around old dual core. Let's say you bought MBP13 2017 base for $1300 and upgraded it a lot with 16gb RAM. So sticking(paying more) in 2011-2012 with 8gb of RAM would be a good decision instead of buying 2-4 GB. Because even MBP13 2015 and dual core no touchbar MBP13 2017 were almost the same in terms of performance. Those machines were still the best around time. Click to expand.This trick well worked back then but sometimes it fails to work.įor example, Sandy Bridge intel CPU was a huge step forward - i got mine with dell xps 2011 and in 2012 i also bought MBP13.
