![]() ![]() I use all of this for interface design for large responsive web applications (mobile, desktop, tablet) and iOS and Android app design. I frequently use Sketch for UI design as well as the full Adobe CC Suite– Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, After Effects, etc. The Macbook Pro has an Intel Iris Graphics 6100 compared to the MacBook’s Intel HD Graphics 5300. The new Retina MacBooks seem to have a better display, but I haven’t used one in person so I can’t confirm how good it is compared to its older brother, the MacBook Pro, which I can tell you with certainty that it's the best monitor I've ever stared into. It wasn’t bad, but compared to my cinema display it was very noticeably not as good. This was my biggest gripe with my Air, albeit not a huge gripe. My Air also didn’t have a retina display and the colors weren’t nearly as vivid as my 27” external monitor. This graph alone make me pretty wary of using a MacBook for my main machine, but I still bet you could get by with it if you were determined enough. And also see that the rMBP crushes both of them at 12s– that's with a 2.2GHz i7 from 2014, let alone the 3.1GHz you can now get with the rMBP. ![]() ![]() In the chart below, the new 2015 MacBook appears a good bit slower than the 2013 MacBook Air i7 when using Photoshop. ![]() Thanks to Marcelo Somers for pointing that article out. I'm definitely no processor expert.Īccording to this review of the 2015 MacBook's performance, the MacBook might not be as powerful as the Air over the course of a full day, but can be for short bursts of time, hence the turbo boost. But again, my Air didn’t have a dual core and didn’t have turbo boost. The i7 (Air) seems faster than the Core M (MacBook) according to this comparison. The biggest differences are the processor and the graphics. Processor 1.3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M, Turbo Boost up to 2.9 GHz.The new (maxed-out) Retina MacBook has similar specs with a few differences: My 2013 MacBook Air had the following specs: Also note, I designed 95% of the time with my MacBook Air hooked up to my 27” Apple Cinema Display. That really depends on what you expect from your main machine now doesn’t it? While I haven’t used the new Retina MacBooks, I can tell you about the 2013 MacBook Air, which has similar specs and has served me incredibly well as my main and only machine over the last 2 years doing full-time design. ![]()
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