Looking for a laptop

[AlexMorway]

What type of laptop from apples line up should i get? Very minimal gaming mostly photoshop a little multitasking? 2500 usd max but don't want more power than i need.

[scighera2]

1 minute ago, AlexMorway said:

What type of laptop from apples line up should i get? Very minimal gaming mostly photoshop a little multitasking? 2500 usd max but don't want more power than i need.

None, apple laptops are terrible value. Not to mention for the same price you could get a Windows laptop that is like 5 times more powerful.

[Guest]

Apple laptops are actually great production laptops in my opinion. But they are expensive. They are also not really made for gaming so I wouldn't expect any gaming except maybe Minecraft (if they still support the os, been a while).

 

I would recommend looking refurbished if you want an Apple, or wait and see if anything goes on sale (rare, but happens). Or look to the 2016, none touch bar models.

If you want something simple and windows, the Dell XPS 15 is a pretty great choice. The Gigabyte Aero 15 is also pretty great.

[scighera2]

1 minute ago, Syn Messer said:

Apple laptops are actually great production laptops in my opinion. But they are expensive. They are also not really made for gaming so I wouldn't expect any gaming except maybe Minecraft (if they still support the os, been a while).

 

I would recommend looking refurbished if you want an Apple, or wait and see if anything goes on sale (rare, but happens). Or look to the 2016, none touch bar models.

If you want something simple and windows, the Dell XPS 15 is a pretty great choice. The Gigabyte Aero 15 is also pretty great.

No, for a similar price you can get a windows laptop with a much faster CPU and a bigger screen.
The only thing apple laptops are good for is separating idiots from their money.

[Elite14]

8 minutes ago, AlexMorway said:

What type of laptop from apples line up should i get? Very minimal gaming mostly photoshop a little multitasking? 2500 usd max but don't want more power than i need.

what types of games does "minimal gaming" include?

[Elite14]

1 minute ago, scighera2 said:

No, for a similar price you can get a windows laptop with a much faster CPU and a bigger screen.
The only thing apple laptops are good for is separating idiots from their money.

well I don't think apple laptops are great especially given their price, there not bad laptops, there just really expensive for the performance you get. what your mostly paying for is the statics symbol and they do have pretty good build quality 

[Gikero]

I don't recommend using a MacBook for gaming. The Retina MBPs have extremely dense pixel counts (high resolution). Running under native resolution gives everything a fuzzy look. Running at native means low performance. The dedicated graphics Apple uses aren't designed for gaming and are put in a very thermally constrained body. I've had so many Apple laptops with dead/failing GPUs in my shop. If you MUST have a gaming PC, get a separate computer, otherwise your sacrificing so much to have a single PC that won't deliver what you want.