i have 2011 mbp took dump presumably gpu failure. in middle of exporting pictures while hooked external monitor, , computer , monitor went black, restarted, had lines on screen....and won't restart now....keeps restarting on , over. i'm 3 months out of apple care warranty. understand, require $700 logic board repair make computer ticking bomb same fault.
so, i'm curious others in scenario? photographer, i've been wanting upgrade retina mbp @ point.....should bite bullet , fix logic board , upgrade @ same time??? need computer enough power comfortably run photoshop, lightroom, etc, , deal large raw files. of storage on external hard drives, i'd have ssd increased loading speeds.
newest macbook pro retinas values? have known flaws, or desired configurations best money? also, memory upgradable? advice!!
my advice logic board replaced (it not run $700, should run $315 depot repair), , sell it.
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i have 2014 11-inch haswell macbook air i5 1.4 / 8 gb / 128 gb. had since october, 3rd mba. clean install of yosemite. virtually no apps installed. no flash. if have bluetooth off , brightness 2/3 might scrap 6 hours of battery use. not using the web. i'm typically using nisus or basic text editor (bbedit) browsing web, on text based sites, no flash, adblock on, 5 or 6 tabs 4.5 hours. watching film 2.5 hours. if leave computer on nothing open, , go sleep disabled, lasts 7 hours. it's not yosemite. getting same on mavericks. know people 12 hours or on 11-inch haswell wifi off, , writing on text editor. took apple shop, nothing showed on battery test, did clean install in case of runaway process (ironically, have runaway process giving me 2 hours battery life total, that's on thread) there many factors impact battery life. see battery life charge se...
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