it's extremely portable as i see from youtube videos from CES 2016. Looks like gonna be the new powerhaus soon haha. Might get one if I have extra cash lying around.

Yeah every year there is an upgrade. If you are getting one, just get 16Gb of RAM. Its worth it.
Best to get a quote from the 3rd party Apple service centers. Where are you located?

Just did a few searches and reading,

1. MBP 13" (broadwell) with 16GB ram & 256GB SSD costs about RM7K
2. MBP 15" (haswell) costs about RM8k (16GB & 256GB), but some shops are starting to clear stocks at 7K+
3. New MBPs should be Skylake but release could be March-June 2016, expected retail price should be similar to current lineup.

Dilemma.. I need a new MBP by March arghh..

Just did a few searches and reading,

1. MBP 13" (broadwell) with 16GB ram & 256GB SSD costs about RM7K
2. MBP 15" (haswell) costs about RM8k (16GB & 256GB), but some shops are starting to clear stocks at 7K+
3. New MBPs should be Skylake but release could be March-June 2016, expected retail price should be similar to current lineup.

Dilemma.. I need a new MBP by March arghh..

If you need it urgently, go for the 13" for portability unless you like the 15" size

Dual core i5 broadwell vs quad core i7 haswell, use mainly for video editing. I'm undecided. 13"'s portability is definitely a win, but I don't mind the extra tad bit of weight and screen if the processor power is useful for my work.

I owned the 13" base model for 3 weeks. Initially got it for video editing purposes. scrubbing through 1/4 resolution laggy as f*ck. Then I decided to buy the MacBook 12" for fun to try out the Core M processor. Scrubbing through 1/2 resolution is even better than the 13" base model lol. Edits 1080p fine BUT renders painfully slow. I run out of battery before i finish rendering. But I loved the portability. Used it for almost 6 months. Now i finally settled on the 15" and fully spec-ed out. LOVE the 4K edits, playback is smooth, scrubbing through the timeline was a breeze. No lags and my playback is full resolution in native 4K. However, the render times are marginally better. Not a whole lot but just 30 seconds to 45 seconds better.

Thanks for the input, not sure it's the dual-core or 8GB ram issue though. Anyway I'm already leaning towards the 15". Would rather ease my work and sacrifice some portability.

Dual core i5 broadwell vs quad core i7 haswell, use mainly for video editing. I'm undecided. 13"'s portability is definitely a win, but I don't mind the extra tad bit of weight and screen if the processor power is useful for my work.

I owned the 13" base model for 3 weeks. Initially got it for video editing purposes. scrubbing through 1/4 resolution laggy as f*ck. Then I decided to buy the MacBook 12" for fun to try out the Core M processor. Scrubbing through 1/2 resolution is even better than the 13" base model lol. Edits 1080p fine BUT renders painfully slow. I run out of battery before i finish rendering. But I loved the portability. Used it for almost 6 months. Now i finally settled on the 15" and fully spec-ed out. LOVE the 4K edits, playback is smooth, scrubbing through the timeline was a breeze. No lags and my playback is full resolution in native 4K. However, the render times are marginally better. Not a whole lot but just 30 seconds to 45 seconds better.

Hang on. When you say BASE MODEL, do you mean the one with the 500GB HDD?

base model refers to the retina MacBook Pro 13" which has the 128GB PCIe SSD. The one i tested was the Mid 2014 model.

Your experience sounds odd. Are you editing with Premiere CC? Maybe OpenCL wasn't fully implemented at the time.

I was on After Effects for years. And now I switched up to Premiere lol. Premiere 4K playback is fine as hell. Haha

I recall building a monster (desktop) for AE early 2014. I remember OpenCL wasn't ready yet because we decided not to go for a Mac Pro and I had to have HW acceleration. I suspect this resulted in your poor experience.

I believe if you were to try a MBP 13 with AE/PP + OpenCL, you might find the RT performance on par with the MB 12 since they have almost the same graphics performance, with the added advantage of faster render times.

The only thing better than the MBP 13 is the MBP 15 with discrete graphics.

I recall building a monster (desktop) for AE early 2014. I remember OpenCL wasn't ready yet because we decided not to go for a Mac Pro and I had to have HW acceleration. I suspect this resulted in your poor experience.

I believe if you were to try a MBP 13 with AE/PP + OpenCL, you might find the RT performance on par with the MB 12 since they have almost the same graphics performance, with the added advantage of faster render times.

The only thing better than the MBP 13 is the MBP 15 with discrete graphics.

Wow pretty shitty repair from Mac City 1 utama.
Received my rMBP last week after sending in for repair. Less than a week received it back after they found:
1) SSD Card Port failed (Replaced I/O board)
2) System Error (Advice to reformat hard disk)

So after 2 days of using my returned rMBP, the SAME PROBLEM happened again!
Here are some nice pretty colourful pics to share...







So i did a diagnostic test and got this, which i'm sure is not the reason for the colourful screens, but still... battery problems after 5 months?? FFS





Sent back my rMBP to Mac City for repair and wasn't too happy. The counter staff wasn't that friendly and insisted previously there was a system error which requires a reformat and i didn't allow them to reformat hence the problem. RIGHT, like i'd pay them RM150 just to reformat when i could do it myself.

Just called them again on the status and i was told that my Logic Board had problems and they just ordered a replacement which will take a week.
Seriously? They didn't detect that during the 1st service? What kind of sloppy diagnostic service did they conduct the first time?

Not happy with Apple so far... had been using Dell notebooks for more than a decade and all my notebooks last me at least 4 years without any issues while a 5 month old rMBP is giving me crap..