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Ask HN: 2015 13“ Macbook Pro vs. Latest 15” for Coding?

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I am trying to decide what laptop to get. Will that extra 2 inch vertical and quad core be something I won't be able to live without? Additionally, I'll be traveling up to a couple hours a day with it.

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I went for the 13", after buying a 15" MBP 6 years ago and a 14.7" System76 Pangolin in between. No regrets. I love the new 13" MBP.

do you like a higher res? 15" retina scaled comes in at 1900x1200, which is perfect imo. i find less than 1200 vertical too short, but that's just me. 13" is 1600x1050, which is barely taller than a mba.

I think this is the key difference. At next-to-highest resolution, the 15" gives you a heck of a lot of workspace readable even with these old eyes (with reading glasses ;-).

I love my 15". It's thin and light enough to have a cover. 13" is too small a screen for me. 17" is too large. Hence, 15".

Screens are measured diagonally the vertical difference is:

  >(- (* 15 (sin 10/16))
      (* 13 (sin 10/16)))
  1.17....

Er my bad, meant diagonal.

I bought the 13 and I added a 24 inch ultra wide LG 2560x1080 monitor and this setup is nearly perfect.

tn91 sounds like they are trying to be mobile with the laptop. Bringing a 24" monitor would defeat that purpose.

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