The Apple logo is pictured at a retail store in the Marina neighborhood in San Francisco, California April 23, 2014.
The Apple logo is pictured at a retail store in the Marina neighborhood in San Francisco, California April 23, 2014. REUTERS

The year 2015 experiences overwhelming new Apple devices and affluent updates for the current versions, including the Smartwatch, the MacBook in 12 inch, updated version for music making software – Logic Pro, updates on MacBook Air and new version for MacBook Pro 13 inch laptop. Deciding to buy an Apple laptop may be easier, but which MacBook is the million dollar question.

Unfortunately, Apple has not designed and developed every MacBook with similar features rather each model and each version has its upsides and downsides. The final decision involves multiple factors like checking the preferable features, portability and the budget.

Outdated MacBooks

Even though the stores display the outdated, MacBook pro 13 inch, MacBook Air 11 inch and MacBook Pro with Retina 15 inch, we shall candidly get them axed. The MacBook Pro with Retina 15 inch is a bit gigantic and the MacBook Air 11 inch is too small for a laptop and propelled with poor hard drive and lacklustre 1,366x768 resolution. Naturally, both of them are considered outdated.

Real contest

The CNET writers call MacBook 12 inch as an engineering marvel, for its cutting edge technology, feather-weight, wafer-thin and fanless features, yet it foregoes certain irreplaceable features like the common ports to connect with peripherals and the mainstream processor, Core i5. However, in terms of storage capacity, with the same $1,299 investment, you get 256GB for MacBook and 128GB SSD for MacBook Pro 13 inch.

Meanwhile, Apple MacBook Air has been in the market for several years, it has been able to lead the crowd, even though it has comparatively lower resolution and wide bezel in the screen. It just costs $999 and is one of the reasons for its success. It also has record break battery power with 18 hours of video playback and 10 hours of online streaming.

12 inch MacBook

13 inch MacBook Air

13 inch MacBook pro

Pricing

$1,299

$999

$1,299

Resolution

2,304x1,440

1,440x900

2,560x1,600

CPU

1.1GHz Intel Core M

1.6GHz Intel Core 15

2.7GHz Intel Core 15

RAM

8GB

4GB

8GB

Storage

256 GB SSD

128GB SSD

128GB SSD

Weight

0.93kg

1.34kg

1.58kg

Ports

USB C

USB 3; SD card slot; Display port

USB 3; SD card slot; Display port

Final verdict:

· Apple MacBook Pro 13 inch is an all-rounder, with high-resolution, multiple ports, excellent battery charge and of course beautiful, but the portability is under question.

· Apple MacBook 12 inch can handle multiple tasks; offers web surfing experience and easy portability, but when it comes to battery power, it can last for just 8 hours.

· Apple MacBook Air 13 inch can manage plenty of mainstream workload, with its best battery life, damn good display quality and with OS X. The most well-built is Apple’s MacBook Air and the most exciting part is, it is $300 less than the other two.

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