Any advice for me looking at specs.

BaNksY IV

BaNksY IV

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Hi people.

After my laptop died months ago the Mrs has been bugging me for a replacement.
I keep looking at windows based laptops around the £500 mark but always end up looking at the macbook pros instead and lusting after one.

The one I keep nearly hitting but on is the 13" retina i5 8gb ram 256gb ssd model.
My question is are the drives upgradable or can you get decent externals drives for them?
Also how much of the 256gb ssd will be taken up by the os?
Do they come with a Microsoft office type program set? Mainly exel?

Has anyone bought one and wished they saved nearly half and got the windows equivalent or have you got it and never looked back.

Sorry for the newbish post
Just need a little push before spending my hard earned.

Many thanks
 
My question is are the drives upgradable or can you get decent externals drives for them?
Not really, I think you can but its a lot of work and not built to be user replaceable.

Also how much of the 256gb ssd will be taken up by the os?
Have about 210GB to use, I have an external 2tb drive that I've been meaning to connect to my router but I use that for most media.

Do they come with a Microsoft office type program set? Mainly exel?
Yeah Apple have their own suite that I personally like, I don't have huge office needs and I still hate the ribbon based UI. MSFT office is also on OSX, Apple's is free if that matters.
 
I don't believe anything in the retina MBP is user upgradable (or at least not easily) - so you'll be stuck with the exact spec that you purchase.

No idea how much of the SSD the OS will take up, it's not much though - 8GB maybe?

A decent blu-ray external USb drive won't cost you much, I've got one but never used it.

They come with the Apple version of Office so you get Pages, Numbers etc.... if you want you can get Office for Mac but it's not quite as good as the Windows version.

I've had a MBA now for about 2 years and love it, I don't wish I'd saved money and got a Windows PC because I find OSX a lot nicer to use.

Never looked back personally.
 
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