USER can upgrade RAM as needs/desires changeģ. Reasons I opted to purchase this for her:Ģ. It's more than sufficient for typical needs (we aren't computer gamers), and hers is a little faster than mine (late 2011). I bought one of these NEW for my wife a little over a year ago. If you buy one of these legacy MBP's today, brand new in the box, it was still last updated in 2012. So even though it may be a '2013 MBP' if it is this model, it was last updated 2012.

Just to clarify, the 2013 MBP is a non-retina display? If so, this is what I refer to as their 'legacy' MBP and it has not been updated since 2012 by Apple.

Thanks for the help, I'll contact the seller for the MBP. As for used, you're going to have to look it over, kick the tires, and decide for yourself if the wear and tear is acceptable. But for a Haswell MBP vs a Broadwell Macbook, get the MBP. If this were a 2013 MBP vs a 2016 Macbook with Skylake, it'd be a tougher decision. I think we've gotten to the point where the vast majority of the power draw over the 6-8 hours you use a laptop is now from components other than the CPU, so reducing the CPU's power consumption doesn't help as much as it used to. There's supposed to be a power savings due to the smaller transistor size in Broadwell, but I haven't seen much from the Broadwell and even Skylake laptop benchmarks I've seen. Broadwell does have a better integrated GPU, but Apple uses Intel Iris or Iris Pro in their MBPs, so the MBP should still be better for gaming. Broadwell is just Haswell shrunk down to 14nm, while Haswell is still 22nm. The speed difference between Haswell (used in the 2013 MBP) and Broadwell is nil.

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