Im thinking of buying a new laptop that is light and easy to carry around. Is the new macbook worth the buy?

Portable + long lasting battery life + highly optimized OS is what you get from the new macbook

you'll love it.

Portable? In what way? Not the same as normal laptop/

You didn't mention the main purpose of the laptop though? Work? Gaming?

macbook is under utilize if you just for surfing

just to note that Macbook only got 1 port
the usb type C port.

when i start using mac, i never think to go back windows seriously

I bought my Macbook White used and loving it despite being 6 years old. Still very zippy compared to my Lenovo Flex2 with W10. Since then, I upgraded the RAM and hard drive to SSD. Now can fly.

The joy of virus free world.

I have been using Mac since errr.. 1999. Heavy user since 2006. Never once I encounter a virus in any Mac I use.

So yeah.

tumpang thread ... I'm considering to get one as well. Which Mac is best for developing apps, photoshop and stuff, no gaming and movies every now and then.

Had multiple laptops + windows, upgraded to 16gb ram still runs slow. sigh

Got la. Ransomware. Usually idiots who use iTunes info on suspicious sites or malware infected apps from the App Store.

What kind of apps? Web apps? Mobile apps? But in general, MBP 13" is good enough. with min 256gb disk space. 15" would be better since screen is bigger, got dedicated GC

Yeah I know got mac virus/trojan etc.

And you're right, only idiots would fall for that and get infected.

if you have the money then just give a try...

you will not regret on buying it... but you will under utilise it when you bought... because limited "FREE" applications...

i'm 'under-utilising' one MBP 13" but no regret....

I'm running PS, AI, INDD, iMovie, Final Cut Pro X and a few other apps (not programming) on 2012 MacBook Pro with 8gb RAM. Still smooth.

web and mobile apps. plan to learn up swift soon.
MBP is quite expensive, would MBP 13" do the job?
Also about the upgrades, do I need to go back to the authorized centers to make changes in the future? Thanks.

If you don't play games at all, the MacBook Air is actually not bad.......so long as you don't need any Windows only softwares like most CAD softwares.

Sometimes Finder will hang. Only way is to Force Quit and wait few seconds. Same problem on Windows where Explorer.exe will crash or hang.