Is it worth taking an old Macbook for Ps, Ae, Ai?

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Hello) I would like to know whether to take an old beech with a budget of 30k rubles? If anything else I can add 5-10k to the Upgrade: 3
I myself have been sitting on Windows all my life, and now there is an opportunity to update the laptop, but after looking at new and used laptops on Windows up to 30k, you won’t really disperse there.
So, could you advise which beech to take "old macbook (air, pro)" or "on Windows" up to 30k rubles
But more interested in the question of whether Photoshop flies and whether vidos are rendered on old beeches up to 30k, or if it doesn't fly, how much more you need to invest in it in order to work comfortably)
Thank you very much who will answer, I myself can’t choose a bunch of everything I’ve already reviewed, and who has no Buki friends, and there’s nothing special to know (

Answer 1

A good new MacBook is an excellent working tool for 5-6 years (of course, if you take a package close to the top with a reserve for the future).
If you have a stable income and you plan to strengthen yourself as a specialist, then it even makes sense to take out a loan and buy a new one. Since these costs in any case will pay off in a few months.
PS For graphic design, I would even recommend looking not at macbooks, but at aimaks, they are much more convenient, especially if you work at home.
PPS I have had an aimak for 4 years. Works great, at the beginning of 2013 I took the top-end package. I plan to sit on it for at least another 3 years, there are no lags, and I often have to work with Photoshop.

Answer 2

No.
Even current MacBook pros are quite average in terms of performance, and junk in an extremely limited budget will be completely inoperable.

Answer 3

It makes sense to consider only the following BU macbooks:
Macbook Pro (without retina) 2012 (MD101, MD102) followed by replacing the HDD with an SSD and adding memory up to 16GB.
Macbook Air from mid 2013 with 8GB RAM.
Macbook Pro Retina 13" from mid 2014 (minimum 8GB RAM)
Macbook Pro Retina 15" from mid 2014.
Earlier versions that had various problems or were much worse than the above, they do not make much sense in 2017.

Answer 4

Bought macbook 2010 for 10k
Intel Core 2 Duo (2.4GHz)
GeForce® 320M - 256MB GDDR3
250GB replaced with 128GB SSD spent 4k
2GB SO-DIMM DDR3 1066MHz - Upgraded to 4GB spent 2k
WXGA (1280 x 800)
and that: 10k poppy + 2k 4giga RAM + 4k SSD = 16 thousand rubles.
Updated quietly to the latest version of Mac OS. For photoshop, illustrator, Excel Word, all sorts of solims, parallel desktops, and enough for a bunch of tabs. Rendering video comfortably only 720p in imovie fullhd slows down.
For 30k, you can take 12 years to increase the operatives, and install an ssd. You will have enough for everything.

Answer 5

If you try hard and sit on ads for a month, you can buy a 2012 poppy mini with an i7 processor for 30 thousand rubles. Only if you see an ad at a given price, buy faster, otherwise outbids (in Moscow) will get ahead of you literally 3 hours after the ad was released. Outbids will then sell such a poppy mini for 45-50 thousand rubles. You can not sit and catch, but buy for the same 30 thousand poppy mini 2012 with an i5 processor.
So, 30 thousand for a poppy (only late 2012!) + 12 thousand for a ssd samsung 850 evo for 512 mb + 16 thousand for 16 GB of RAM. It turns out for 58 such an apparatus that will last another ten years. With i7, of course.
I looked, a new one with the same parameters in 2014 costs 118,000 rubles in the Apple store.

Answer 6

Be patient and save up for a normal macbook, why bother.

Answer 7

Does Photoshop work faster with an apple or something? If there is something to photoshop on now - why a poppy? Slows down - buy more iron for the current colossus. For the sake of Sketch and the rest of the unique macOS, it's worth taking.

Answer 8

Photoshop on the firmware will work even more or less normally, but you can forget about rendering.