MacBook Pro Hardware Upgrades

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The 13" only has integrated graphics card, you don’t buy the 15" just for the processor speed, buy it for it’s discrete graphics card. Go used, avoid problems, skip the touch-bar, save money.

Best Mac for SketchUp

My 2¢ as mac user since mastodons roamed the earth and a relentless sketchup user… Do not go for the macbook air, they are fantastic machines for what they are (we have one) but you need the dedicated high end graphics card of a macbook pro to drive sketchup. Ram: 8 gig will run sketchup ok, 16 gig is very good, 32 gig a bit better, it’s diminishing returns in terms of experience. Multiple apps and simultaneous background processes are where I notice this. The i7 is a faster chip but the rea…