Name: How To Know Which MacBook You Should Buy
Uploaded: 2018-10-09T04:41:10.000Z
Duration: 3 min 57 s
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It's never been a worst time to buy a new MacBook.

The MacBook Air, the regular MacBook, and the MacBook Pro,

But each one comes with this killer trade-off

that makes it hard to recommend one over all of the others.

It has all the ports a lot of people need:

Standard USB ports, an SD card reader, a display out.

And that's good because today a lot of modern laptops require you to buy

dongles and other accessories in order to work with stuff you want to plug into it.

It's barely changed in the last eight years,

reducing the bezels, putting on hi-res screens.

or doing graphics, or anything like that.

It's just a basic machine that you can get at a pretty good price.

and there are rumors that it's gonna drop even further later this year.

it checks all the boxes you're gonna want.

It has one of the most powerful Intel processors

you could get, at least, 12 hours a day on it,

meaning you don't have to worry about carrying around a charger everywhere you go.

And even though it does look a little bit older,

it's still plenty portable and light enough to take around with you.

Now let's talk about the regular MacBook.

This one came out a few years ago you might remember,

It's almost like an iPad bolted on to a keyboard.

and, of course, that gorgeous hi-res Retina display.

But there are also a ton of drawbacks to this one.

First of all, it only has one port that you use for everything.

you can't charge and plug in an accessory at the same time.

And most accessories don't work with Thunderbolt right now,

Another problem with the MacBook is the power performance.

It's way underpowered compared to the, even the MacBook Air.

You're not gonna be able to do a lot of photo editing,

or video editing, or other intensive tasks.

And it's way too expensive for what you get, spec by spec.

At 1,300 bucks, you're essentially paying for the design and portability above everything else.

and it comes in two sizes: 13 inch and 15 inch.

which was inspired by the regular MacBook,

the MacBook Pro has four Thunderbolt ports,

meaning you can plug more stuff in it at once, and charge.

But the marquee feature of the MacBook Pro is the new TouchBar.

When Apple first introduced the TouchBar,

it tried to make it seem a lot cooler than it was.

it makes it more annoying to hunt down the keys you wanna find.

A lot of users who have bought the MacBook Pro for the last couple of years,

have complained that specs of dust or dirt can get caught in the keys,

That seems like a stupid, fatal flaw for something that's so expensive to use,

and Apple still hasn't really addressed the issue.

If you can find the older version of the MacBook Pro,

the model before the big redesign a couple years ago,

and it performs just as well as today's MacBook Pro.

There's no perfect answer when it comes to picking a new MacBook right now.

and the whole lineup is in dire need of a refresh.

but at least it checks all the boxes for what most people need.

it even fits inside one of these envelopes that we've all seen floating around the office.

And so, let me go ahead and show it to you now.

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How To Know Which MacBook You Should Buy

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