Potzo Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Currently, I am on Surface Book 1st Gen with i7-6600U. It has absolutely terrible performance in Affinity Designer. Slightly due to 4k monitor that I recently got at the office. I've read here that Macs are better performers in Affinity Designer because of 'Mac first' development approach and Metal on MacOS. So I am finally going back to Apple. Now I have a dilemma between two models. It will be connected to a 4K monitor. Macbook Pro 13 i7-8559U / 16 GB LP DDR 3 - 2133 / Intel Iris 655 / € 2.439,00 VS Macbook Pro 15 i7-9750H / 16 GB DDR 4 - 2400 / Radeon Pro 555X / € 2.299,00 I was going to go with cheapest 13" with i7 and 16gb ram. But realized that 15" is cheaper but performance wise seems to be better choice because of better gpu? I guess it all comes down to form factor? Thanks. Quote designer & frontend dev @potzo.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 I think this is an exercise in splitting hairs, either one will suffice, but I'd go with the Macbook Pro 15 i7-9750H / 16 GB DDR 4 - 2400 / Radeon Pro 555X / € 2.299,00 a bit more screen real estate, a tiny notch up with RAM, the CPUs are pretty close but the i7-9750H is newer, and the graphics will outstrip the intel iris by quite a bit. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potzo Posted November 17, 2019 Author Share Posted November 17, 2019 Yeah, I am thinking the same, it's a no brainer. Maybe the price of the 15" dropped because of new 16" models. Quote designer & frontend dev @potzo.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 5 hours ago, Potzo said: Maybe the price of the 15" dropped because of new 16" models. Possibly, though the new 16" models will have undoubtly the much better and more stable keyboards now. - However in your case between the two shown models, price and form factor wise for graphics screen space and performance the 15" model has the advantage here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSojek Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Why not to buy standard PC with better specifications? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potzo Posted November 17, 2019 Author Share Posted November 17, 2019 Thanks guys for the replies. I will go with 15" and report back how it is Quote designer & frontend dev @potzo.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 13 minutes ago, Potzo said: Thanks guys for the replies. I will go with 15" and report back how it is Awesome, welcome back to the fold brethren Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 22 hours ago, MrSojek said: Why not to buy standard PC with better specifications? Possibly because raw hardware specifications do not tell the whole story, particularly for apps like Affinity because overall performance depends on a combination of raw hardware power & how well that integrates with the OS & the application itself? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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