[OSX-Users] Re: New 2015 MacBook

[Jules Field]

All models have 8GB RAM.

256GB ssd and 1.1GHz cpu = £902
256GB ssd and 1.3GHz cpu = £1074

512GB ssd and 1.2GHz cpu = £1117
512GB ssd and 1.3GHz cpu = £1220

Then you'll want an AV multiport adapter (either HDMI or VGA version) = £65
That provides a USB-C socket (so you can charge while showing a 
presentation), normal USB, and either HDMI or VGA.

So top-of-the-range = £1285 for the package. But I'm not convinced the 
1.2GHz->1.3GHz upgrade is worth having, so you could knock roughly £100 
off that.

All prices include VAT.

One thing I have noticed is quite how fast the SSD is. Installing my 
30GB system image from a USB disk takes 3 minutes, compared to 6 minutes 
for a MacBook Pro Retina and over 20 minutes for a "spinning rust" 
disk-based Mac.

Hope that helps,
Jules.


On 22/05/2015 10:26, Tim Chown wrote:
> So what’s the damage for one of those?
>
> Tim
>
>> On 21 May 2015, at 15:21, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
>> <mailto:Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> If anyone would like to see one in the flesh, I've got one in my 
>> office you are welcome to come and look at.
>> Zepler 4211, by the lift.
>>
>> - Weight under 1kg (lighter than MacBook Air)
>> - Thinner than the MacBook Air
>> - Brand new keyboard
>> - Force Touch trackpad
>> - No fans, no moving parts at all (even the keys only *just* move)
>> - 10 hours battery life
>> - 1.1/1.2/1.3GHz Core M cpu
>> - 8GB RAM
>> - 512GB SSD storage
>> - Retina display (12", 2304x1440 pixels)
>>
>> Jules
>>
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>> Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
>> email+iMessage: Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>> Twitter: @JulesFM
>>
>> Senior Tutor, Postmaster
>> Electronics and Computer Science
>> University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
>>
>>
>

Jules

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