If your budget can stretch to it, we advise getting the MacBook Pro over the Air for the quad-core processor alone. The 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at $1,299 (£1,299, AU$1,999) for the entry level model packing a 1.4GHz quad-core eighth-generation Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645 and 128GB SSD. It’s far from budget, but it’s a heck of a lot more affordable than the MacBook Pro (2019). There’s also a model with the same specs, but with twice the storage at 256GB, which will set you back $1,299 (£1,299, AU$1,999). This model is packed with a 1.6GHz dual-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, 8GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 128GB storage and Intel UHD Graphics 617. The good news is that with the 2019 model, the MacBook Air is now more affordable. Though that doesn’t mean it’s cheap, if you’re set on an Apple laptop and are on a budget, then this is the one to get. The 13-inch Pro is the current champ for combining price, performance and features, while the 13-inch Air is, while a bit dated in its design, still a tremendously useful laptop available at a very accessible price.The MacBook Pro is aimed at professionals (Image credit: Future) Price and specsĪs we mentioned earlier, the MacBook Air is Apple’s most affordable laptop. It's the biggest and most powerful laptop Apple makes, and unless you're moving up to a 5K iMac or the Mac Pro desktop, it's going to be on the wish lists of photographers, designers, video makers and others.īut for everyone else, there may be a better choice in the MacBook lineup. But it's also slim and light enough to make an occasional trip without being a burden, which is why Apple feels free to charge such a premium for it above both other high-end 15-inch laptops and the rest of the MacBook line. The 15-inch MacBook Pro is a powerful, but still portable, laptop that feels more at home on a desk (perhaps tethered to external hard drives and docking stations) than in your travel bag.

This system ran for 9:34 in our video playback battery test, about 15 minutes longer than the 2014 configuration we tested.

Again, perhaps because this year's test unit has to support a separate graphics card while the one we tested last year did not, the battery life we saw in the 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro versus the 2014 model was nearly identical. Apple claims tweaks to the operating system and battery chemistry should give you about an hour of extra battery life in this 2015 MacBook Pro, versus a comparable 2014 model.

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