If you're willing to put up with an external monitor - moving it ever year/semester, taking up desk space, enjoying it in your room and then not enjoying it when you're not in your room, etc - get an Air. The new 15" isn't too big, either - its footprint is barely bigger than my older 13", in fact. Either one is lighter than a stack of books, but the 13" is easier to carry in a greater variety of bags it's not much bigger than a typical spiral notebook. It really wasn't bad on my 13" non-retina MBP, but it would've been nicer on a 15" (and awesome on a long-gone 17").įor portability - eh, I can't say personally, because it's been over four years since I switched from a 15" MBP to my 13".
My example was using the built-in Split View mode to put the lesson plan in Safari on the left half of my screen and a Pages document for notes on the right.
#How portable is 15 inch macbook pro 2012 non retina reddit windows
Screen size helps when you want to see multiple windows at the same time. (re-reading the thread, I guess this is the common factor) What I'd be thinking about is screen real estate and portability. The school would, or should be able to, run these things on their own computers, too. The only time you might wish you had more grunt is if you're crunching huge data sets (are you running an atomic particle collider?) or dealing with lots of multimedia editing. I'll say it: Most computers you can buy can run almost anything you'll need to do for classwork. A MB Air will run an external monitor, too.
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