• After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart we announce that we will no longer be publishing new content on iMore and the iMore forums will be closing as of November 1st, 2024.

I am buying a new macbook pro retina 13.5 inch. RAM or Processor upgrade?

I

iMore Question

My question is if i should upgrade RAM to 16 gb, or the processor to the i7? I will be using this for school. My most intensive applications would be Skyrim via bootcamp, Parallels Desktop, and sketchup. For $200 I can upgrade either the RAM or processor. Should I even upgrade one?
 

Rob Phillips

iPhone X & Apple TV Champion, Moderator
Champion
May 1, 2012
13,760
5
38
Visit site
Welcome to iMore! You might want to consider the RAM upgrade. All of today's processors are so darn fast I don't think you'll notice a difference between the i5 and i7 for what you'll be doing.
 

Latest posts

Trending Posts

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
262,069
Messages
1,773,542
Members
441,382
Latest member
Mohammadreza