[mikeyg36]

Originally Posted by SIM Curly

It'll be for when I start college in the fall. So whatever school work I need on there plus music downloads.

What are you doing in college? Graphic work? Video editing? Photos? How big is the music library? What apps are you going to use? The answers to these questions determine the space you need. I'm running only 256gb and I think it's too small. 512 should be good.

[Camaro_Corvette]

What's a Mac?

[SIM Curly]

Originally Posted by mikeyg36

What are you doing in college? Graphic work? Video editing? Photos? How big is the music library? What apps are you going to use? The answers to these questions determine the space you need. I'm running only 256gb and I think it's too small. 512 should be good.

Nursing school so no video or photo editing. Music library will be 1000+ songs i suppose and growing.

[SIM Curly]

Originally Posted by Camaro_Corvette

What's a Mac?

[mikeyg36]

Originally Posted by SIM Curly

Nursing school so no video or photo editing. Music library will be 1000+ songs i suppose and growing.

512 will be plenty

[mikeyg36]

Originally Posted by Camaro_Corvette

What's a Mac?

[SIM Curly]

Originally Posted by mikeyg36

512 will be plenty

Lowest on MBP with ought retina is 750gb but you can switch to 500 SSD for $540. Is the difference between a regular hard drive and a SSD one needed?

[Camaro_Corvette]

Originally Posted by SIM Curly

Originally Posted by mikeyg36

Macbook Pro was the obvious choice. Come on.

[Hitman84]

Holy crap mac's are expensive. My windows desktop cost around 2k with the same specs but it was built like three years ago....
I hate apple....that said if higher specs are lower price...go big or go home!

[SIM Curly]

Ughh found this. The macbook pro with no retina tax with 3 year protection and all is $1800.

Refurbished 13.3-inch MacBook Pro 2.9GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7 with Retina Display

Originally released October 2012
13.3-inch (diagonal) Retina display; 2560-by-1600 resolution at 227 pixels per inch
8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
512GB Flash Storage

720p FaceTime HD Camera

Intel HD Graphics 4000
$1,779.00

[mikeyg36]

Originally Posted by SIM Curly

Lowest on MBP with ought retina is 750gb but you can switch to 500 SSD for $540. Is the difference between a regular hard drive and a SSD one needed?

If you get the SSD it will run as fast as an iPad. It turns on in like 8 sec lol

[hush18]

You're overpaying on all of those. You can get a good ultrabook for less. You don't need a TB of space. I have over 6,000 songs and that's slightly over 30gb. You don't need to have an ssd unless you want it. Only difference it's going to make is booting.

[SIM Curly]

Originally Posted by hush18

You're overpaying on all of those. You can get a good ultrabook for less. You don't need a TB of space. I have over 6,000 songs and that's slightly over 30gb. You don't need to have an ssd unless you want it. Only difference it's going to make is booting.

I dont want a dell

[camaro-dreamer]

If you are going in for nursing, all of these are major overkill. I have an air. I love it. The SSD is amazing to me. I guess I don't really understand why you need 8GB of ram. My air has only 4GB, and I run engineering simulations.