Ask HN: 13 or 15 inch macbook

Re:Ask HN: 13 or 15 inch macbook by lsiunsuex on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @10:04AM (#9961515)

For web development / light photoshop, illustrator work the 13 (6 months old) has been working fine for me. I came from a 15 and I never left the house without my bag. With the 13 assuming a full charge, I just grab it and go. I gave my old (3 years) 15 to my wife and though she never takes it anywhere without a bag either, she's never complained about it's weight.

Not sure if the 13 can push a 4k monitor but I've had no problem connecting 2 additional non 4k monitors to it - 1 over the built in HDMI and 1 via the thunderbolt HDMI adaptor.

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Re:Ask HN: 13 or 15 inch macbook by tmaly on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:16PM (#9963472)

how much ram do you have in your 13? I am curious as I may have to do some light photoshop work.

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Re:Ask HN: 13 or 15 inch macbook by lsiunsuex on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:22AM (#9967589)

8gb of ram and 128gb of SSD (basically a base 13 model) - both have been fine for light photoshop work (not that I ever do heavy photoshop work) but I have come close to running out of storage - dropbox and a time capsule close by help, but it's something to keep in mind.

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Re:Ask HN: 13 or 15 inch macbook by tmaly on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:39AM (#9967665)

I am also planning on running linux off of virtualbox I know I wanted 16gb of ram, but I never gave drive space some thought. Would a 256gb ssd be enough?

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Re:Ask HN: 13 or 15 inch macbook by honest_joe on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @08:30AM (#9968135)

13 2015 model can drive 4k model just fine ;)

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