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No, lucky wife, dang it, lol. I'm on a crusade to replace all of our windows equipment with Apple products and her Windows machine is dated and losing body parts, so she will be the first to get a new Mac. Since we're retired and starting to travel some she opted for a laptop over a box.
Nope. You will have to purchase it separately. This is one of the reasons why I'm in no rush to upgrade to the "latest and greatest". My suggestion, purchase the Mac Pro tower model just before the latest one (MacPro5,1). Yes, it maybe bigger, but when you think about the extra peripherals you will need to purchase, it can take up as much space as the older towers. eg. you want extra storage drives. You need to buy external drives. You will also need an external superdrive. With the tower, you get 4 internal drive bays (up to 2TB each, though I've heard some using 4TB HDDs), and 2 optical drive bays (1 should already have a superdrive installed, and you can also use the second as bay for an SSD drive). The towers are much more, and easily upgradable than the new model. Plus it will be cheaper than the newer Mac Pro. And you will still be able to use it for at least the next few years before needing to consider upgrading.
I have both the older MacPro and a new 6-core MacPro with LaCie 1TB Little Big Disk Thunderbolt-2 Solid State Drive along with a 4TB USB 3.0 7200rpm ext HDD . The new Mac Pro is still smaller with the ext drives compared to my old Mac Pro.Nope. You will have to purchase it separately. This is one of the reasons why I'm in no rush to upgrade to the "latest and greatest". My suggestion, purchase the Mac Pro tower model just before the latest one (MacPro5,1). Yes, it maybe bigger, but when you think about the extra peripherals you will need to purchase, it can take up as much space as the older towers. eg. you want extra storage drives. You need to buy external drives. You will also need an external superdrive. With the tower, you get 4 internal drive bays (up to 2TB each, though I've heard some using 4TB HDDs), and 2 optical drive bays (1 should already have a superdrive installed, and you can also use the second as bay for an SSD drive). The towers are much more, and easily upgradable than the new model. Plus it will be cheaper than the newer Mac Pro. And you will still be able to use it for at least the next few years before needing to consider upgrading.
Great advice Rod. Interesting that no one else picked up on that. I always remember the three most important words in computing, backup, backup, backup. My Time Capsule has dug me out of the manure a number of times.I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet as it almost always is so I will. lizardskeep you will at least need a portable External HD to perform backups of the MacBook no matter which one you get. Please don't trust one device to store all your valuable travel memories. You can use the native Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner whatever but especially when travelling you need to allow for theft or accidental damage. I would also suggest you keep it in a different place to the laptop and maybe just plug it in once a week or whenever you add new photos.
If you need any advice on this we are more than willing to help.
Great advice Rod. Interesting that no one else picked up on that. I always remember the three most important words in computing, backup, backup, backup. My Time Capsule has dug me out of the manure a number of times.
Cheers,
Stretch