Macbook pro. Little bit of a waste of money?

exomonkeyman

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Hello there.

So a bit back 5-6 months ago i bought a 2nd hand macbook pro mid 2013 i5 4GB ram laptop.
But it feels like i spent more on the apple's name branding and the professional metal aluminum casing instead of the actual guts of the laptop. The OS is awesome but with 4GB ram it hits 700MB RAM in seconds with JUST running Photoshop and more times than not even the OS can feel sluggish and not much faster than what windows 7 or a windows 8 machine would offer.

I do photography and filmmaking and VFX and graphics arts blah blah. and i'm looking for a good laptop. My question here is that would i get a faster still awesome laptop with £600-£700 with windows 8 that may not look as nice but the guts of the machine is MUCH faster and performance for general storing files and doing small editing and small photo editing and perhaps even ok gaming.


Any help
 
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Have you considered upgrading the RAM? From personal experience with video editing 4GB is just not enough for editing especially if you are working with HD video. I have an early 2012 MacBook Pro and upgraded the RAM shortly after I purchased it. However, I did not purchase the RAM from Apple as it way overpriced. The specs said it would max out at 8GB but I installed 16GB and it recognized it all. I'm not trying to discourage you from looking at a PC (my desktop and other laptops are PC's).

exomonkeyman

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I have a main windows 7 pc which is my post powerful. So i'm a windows pc guy. even tho i like the mac OS as you said a windows laptop still can be cheaper even tho the specs can be much faster.
 
Have you considered upgrading the RAM? From personal experience with video editing 4GB is just not enough for editing especially if you are working with HD video. I have an early 2012 MacBook Pro and upgraded the RAM shortly after I purchased it. However, I did not purchase the RAM from Apple as it way overpriced. The specs said it would max out at 8GB but I installed 16GB and it recognized it all. I'm not trying to discourage you from looking at a PC (my desktop and other laptops are PC's).
 
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exomonkeyman

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I will try to upgrade my RAM to 8GB it seems like the best option thanks.