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Thoughts on the 2015 Gold MacBook?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 1692186" data-attributes="member: 68040"><p>I have been thinking about it for a while now and since I'm almost done with the necessary paperwork for either a credit card or loan purchase, it's about time I make up my mind. I have been exploring other options, like the 13, 14 and 15 models of Dell's Alienware, and the Dell XPS 13; I know this is not the place to discuss these models, but I really like the Dell XPS 13. I played around with it at a store and even though it's being sold for a very high price, it actually felt rather good, responsive, and well-made for a Dell laptop. Hey, I'm not hating on Dell, but their products never really focused much on the quality, in my opinion, compared to (pre-Dell) Alienware and Apple, for example.</p><p></p><p>I found the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter at the local Apple store so I'm not really worried about the single-port thing when it comes to the rMB, however I'm worried about the performance. I'll be using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) simultaneously almost all of the time, along with Google Chrome or Safari with A LOT of tabs open due to research, so I'm really contemplating whether or not the rMB will be able to handle them with only 8GB of RAM and a 1.1 GHz Intel Core M processor because that's the only one available here, no 1.2 GHz (not that there's a huge difference anyways) or if it's going to perform slowly like my mid-2010 MacBook Pro which has an Intel Core i5 processor with 4GB of RAM?</p><p></p><p>I don't think I'll be able to tell with just a quick test-drive at the store, I'd need to actually rent one out for a couple of days in order to find out in real-time, but that's definitely not an option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarek, post: 1692186, member: 68040"] I have been thinking about it for a while now and since I'm almost done with the necessary paperwork for either a credit card or loan purchase, it's about time I make up my mind. I have been exploring other options, like the 13, 14 and 15 models of Dell's Alienware, and the Dell XPS 13; I know this is not the place to discuss these models, but I really like the Dell XPS 13. I played around with it at a store and even though it's being sold for a very high price, it actually felt rather good, responsive, and well-made for a Dell laptop. Hey, I'm not hating on Dell, but their products never really focused much on the quality, in my opinion, compared to (pre-Dell) Alienware and Apple, for example. I found the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter at the local Apple store so I'm not really worried about the single-port thing when it comes to the rMB, however I'm worried about the performance. I'll be using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) simultaneously almost all of the time, along with Google Chrome or Safari with A LOT of tabs open due to research, so I'm really contemplating whether or not the rMB will be able to handle them with only 8GB of RAM and a 1.1 GHz Intel Core M processor because that's the only one available here, no 1.2 GHz (not that there's a huge difference anyways) or if it's going to perform slowly like my mid-2010 MacBook Pro which has an Intel Core i5 processor with 4GB of RAM? I don't think I'll be able to tell with just a quick test-drive at the store, I'd need to actually rent one out for a couple of days in order to find out in real-time, but that's definitely not an option. [/QUOTE]
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