Question Which brands are easy to open to clean dust and upgrade SSD + RAM (e.g. Question Dell inspiron 1545 cpu,ram upgrade What it comes down to is, is this $200 savings and the current configuration worth it over keeping what I have and waiting a bit longer? I would normally get $200 off retail at any other time. The 5/12 sale is only for an additional savings of $200. But with my work and educational discounts, I could get the current MacBook Pro Retina 15" at $400 off the retail (sale ends 5/12/16) and I can get $750 in trade-in value. I've looked at the charts telling you where in the life cycle we are for the MacBook Pros and they all say to wait until the next generation of MacBook Pros come out in the Fall.
Moreover, the laptop gets really hot and the fan seems to run all the time. Even if I tried the battery replacement and SSD upgrade, it would cost $500-$750 based on macsales and ifixit prices. But there doesn't seem to be an easy DIY battery replacement kit for this model since the cells are all glued in place. I've already looked into replacing the battery and upgrading the SSD. That said, the battery of my current laptop won't hold a charge for more than a day or two and at full charge I can only use it unplugged for about an 90-120 minutes (no video or games, just normal web, Word, Excel and email). I'm not a gamer or programmer, but I do use the Adobe suite (Photoshop and Illustrator mostly) and make use of complex reiterative formulae, macros and scripts and multiple open spreadsheets in Excel. What gains could be had other than the graphics improvement? And will this configuration last me another 4 years? In 2012, I special ordered the laptop with maxxed out processing speed and RAM to get the longest life out of my computer.
I've looked at comparison charts of the processors, but really have no good understanding of what distinguishes the "ivy bridge" vs "broadwell" (?) architectures.
Is it worth it to buy the current MacBook Pro Retina 15" with 2.5 GHz quad core i7 with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD and AMD Radeon R9 M370x w/ 2GB GDDR5? I currently have the mid 2012 MacBook Pro Retina 15" with 2.6 GHz quad core i7 with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M w/ 1GB GDDR3.
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