What's faster than a MacBook Pro with or without retina?

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There was a need to take a MacBook to the department for convenient periodic video editing in Final Cut Pro X and Abobe Effect of videos for a YouTube blog. It is important that the work in the editors goes as quickly and comfortably as possible - i.e. to exclude whenever possible any poddtormazhivaniya. (for example, in previews of video files)
Budget - around 70 tr.
Considering options, I came to the secondary market, where I found options for this money:
Macbook Pro 15 (2012, noRetina) i7 (2.3 GHz (i7-3615QM) Ivy Bridge) RAM16Gb SSD256Gb GeForce GT 650M with 1 GB
Macbook Pro 15 (2013, Retina) i7 (2.4 GHz ( i7-3630QM ) Ivy Bridge) RAM8Gb SSD256Gb GeForce GT 650M with 1
GB
next year's poppy, with a similar filling, but with a retina and with 8 GB of ram
It subconsciously seems to me that the retina will consume resources for the retina itself and thus work with the interface on it (search for the necessary files, preview video / photo) - will slow down.
Accordingly, on "non-Retina" it will be faster, and even 16 GB
Do I think right?

Answer 1

Will influence. But only on the responsiveness of the interface.
If we compare the parameters of video cards:
for a MacBook with a regular screen - NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and Intel HD Graphics 4000
for a MacBook with Retina - NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and Intel HD Graphics 4000
Processors even in the same family - i7-36xx
So the video processing process ( which heavily loads the processor) only the amount of memory can affect, and even then not much. In the place where it costs 8GB, it will simply write to disk more often.
Unless you want to process 2K+ video... Well, then you'd better take a MacPro instead of a MacBook.

Answer 2

Better not Retina with 16Gb of memory, 8Gb is not enough. In addition, in non-Retina 2012, it will be possible to replace the SSD with a larger disk or put a second one instead of a DVD drive.
In retinas:
- you can’t install a second disk, you can only replace it and the choice for replacement is very limited and a special adapter will be needed for a non-native disk
- the memory is soldered, so it will not be possible to expand
it no worse than Retina with a complete absence of glare