At yesterday's Mac User group meeting a person approached me about MacBook Pro purchasing advice. I'd had a similar conversation with her several months ago but life has been chucking lemons at her lately and she just plain didn't have the time. My advice was to go for a refurbished 2015 13" with 256 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM & a 2.7 GHz Core i5 processor. She'd been considering an entry-level 2016 non-touchbar 13" MBP but she said she preferred to have a the old-style ports, esp Magsafe. She sent me an email a few hours later saying she'd taken my advice & would pick it up a her local Apple Store next week.
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@matigo The 13" one is a bit unusual: it shipped with a 160 GB HD which I thought a bit odd because the while MacBook available at the same time had 250 GB. And a higher-spec processor, too. That 13" used to be mine: I upgraded it to 4 GB of RAM and a 320 GB 7200 rpm HDD. That made its performance quite snappy in its day. Now it's used to keep track of a bunch of library books.
@streakmachine Belongs to a graphics designer/stage actor. I onece bought a 300 MHz G3 PowerMac from him: it had a 450 MHz G4 grafted onto it, 2 GB of RAM and an absolute brute of a graphics card that's better that the one in my 2005 G5 PowerMac
// @matigo
@streakmachine Had I looked a bit closer, there was an 11" MBA on the other end of the table which would have made the shot even better.
// @matigo
@matigo Nope. The last of the 17" ones came out in late 2011 & had either a 2.4 or 2.5 GHz Quad-core i7 Sandy Bridge on board.
