Apple’s new MacBook Pro 13, MacBook Air, and Mac mini look awesome, as awesome as anything I’ve ever seen from Apple. One more thing: don’t buy them… yet.
If you need a “new” 13″ MacBook, there are plenty of “old” MacBooks around guaranteed to work with 100 percent of the stuff that works on 13″ MacBooks. The “old” 13″ MacBooks (even pre-owned and used ones) just took a big price hit, so it is bargain time for those who seek 13″ MacBooks.
The new chip? Super awesome!!! I’m not sure that everything a “pro” user uses will work perfectly on the new silicon, but I don’t know that it won’t. The key concept here: no one really knows how the new Macs will fare with software that was not designed with these new chips in hand.
If you’re a casual user (aka not a power user), shop to your heart’s content. The top of the line 13″ MacBook Pro weighs in at $2,299, plus tax and Apple Care. (You should purchase Apple Care. It’s a sucker purchase unless your Mac breaks, but then you feel like a genius.) Expensive? Of course it is. It’s from the fruit company. Worth it? We’ll see. The value of products from Cupertino is in the eye of the beholder. No matter how much you love the idea of “new,” for today, think “old.”
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