One can only Office (the Office had 11 MS), Wi-Fi / surfing and with a little dimmed lights easily 12 hours, and even a tick work longer without mains connection!
By way of comparison. My Macbook Air Mid 2013 11 "(I want to keep for travel and night shift work definitely, despite the screen) comes to 9 hours with the same parameters as above (letter, WiFi, Surfing, bit darker) This is times a challenge to the competitors in the market of business notebooks! And again a value next to the Retina display, which I would never make more concessions.
I thought it was the beginning pity that Apple no QUALITY notebooks more with 17-inch, DVD, Firewire and Ethernet interface and even replaceable RAM and even against an SSD priced interchangeable HD more building - except the 13 "MacBook Pro without Retina mid 2012 the yes ( yet is offered) and after no longer screws the new Mac Mini "may" also be upgraded in my possession as - Do not Laugh Media Server and DVD player with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD itself gewechseltem..
My point: you must necessarily still have to buy a MBP 13 "Retina a plan of how much disk space and how much RAM you will need in practice, since one in retrospect can replace anything (maybe even the HD, but when. selbermachen then voids the warranty).
In my case 128GB SSD rich and 8GB of RAM for Microsoft Office 11, a little image editing with Pixelmator and tonality, bit graphic design with Affinity designers and little games with network Wi Windows XP under Parallels Desktop 9 (Call of Duty 1 and 2, GTA 2, 3, Vice City, San Andreas, Far Cry, RtCW, Doom, Rott, DN3D and various other "before Steam Times Online nannying" - acquired sweetheart.
All you need is to set up no boot camp, because sufficient Parallels and safety reasons running without power completely from old XP. If you want to 7 or 8 operate a Boot Camp partition with Windows, are m. E. even 256GB HD / SSD too little, because it should be more equal 512GB. And the prices that calls for Cupertino, however, are then already far beyond good and evil ...
Those who work with multiple VMs foreseeable and / or large Photoshop files or large image catalogs and corresponding workflow, should also have 16GB RAM. Place at image editing and video editing as well (but not mandatory) 15 inches as here. 13
Advantages and disadvantages are indeed written down already in advance go eden review. An advantage but would still as "Double Plus" of the Apple MacBook Pro Retina 13 "8GB RAM 128GB SSD:
++ Lasting value! The resale value makes up for many a stomach ache when pay ... nowhere is so high in the PC market like Apple. Some things are hardly cheaper on the used market, such. As some Mac Pros and the fabled 17-inch Macbook ... Please Apple, construction again!
Final tip: Get even the micro-SD with 64GB to part, which can be flush push into the card slot on the right side. And since then the documents / data plan. For Time Machine backup either any USB hard drive or even the Airport Time Capsule 2TB.
In conclusion, I have regretted this purchase under any circumstances, even an HDMI port for TV / projector has found in this device yet its place. For Ethernet, however, you need a Thunderbolt adapter. What exists Thunderbolt 2 ports need not be a disadvantage 2.
