Getting a MacBook. Any recommendation for me? Just for common use.

If it's for common use, then you may not need the Touch Bar.

What's touch bar?

where the finger is pointing

Thanks bro.

That seems useless feature.
Let me guess, it add few hundred bucks more just for that.

Are you bounded by a specific budget? For common use, could you be specific?

The cheapest solution for a Macbook which is brand new would be to get the Macbook Air which currently starts at RM4,199 for the most basic model. The screen isn't as sharp and clear as its older brothers because it isn't a "Retina screen" which is apple lingo for a high resolution screen.

Otherwise, you can opt for the 12" Macbook which costs more but is super sleek and portable. One of the nicest and sleekest looking ultra portables around. Not very powerful but enough to cater for web surfing, office work and light photo editing.

A powerhouse would be the Macbook Pro series but since you say it is for common use, it may be overkill.

If you are ok with second hand Macs or laptops in general, you can also opt to see secondhand Macbook Pros in the garage section here in the forums. Some of them have great value.

Well, no, I wouldn't say it's a useless feature. It's aesthetically pretty to look at with vibrant colours and touch functionality to control a host of stuff. Stuff that those MacBooks without the Touch Bar would resort to shortcut key strokes to do the same.

However many Mac old timers would call the Touch Bar gimmicky and unnecessary.

Depend if you are light user or do task , state your budget

Why MacBook ...

I keep mine for not using in a corner ... just occasional during trips only ...

Thinking of getting window o/s lappy ...

If you hv bigger capacity, then just installl windows on your Mac with boot camp ..
You can hv 2 worlds in on laptop...
Switch to windows when gaming and Mac when photo or video editing

This post has been edited by stevenlee: Aug 22 2017, 11:36 AM

I got parallel install in to .. Some online game not able to run in win in Mac

Parallel wont be able to run games smoothly. Bootcamp does

Actually, the motive of getting one is ... doing ntg .. literally for web surfing when on vacation ... maybe doing some excel recording expenses ..

Waaa orang kaya hahaha

No la .. Just that wanted to get a Mac for sake of getting one .. Then I'm able to do so .. I do know what to do with it ..

Also because it is troublesome as I always put away the laptop after using .. Currently using custom made desktop too

Web surfing, word processing, video editing etc etc all in mac

Gaming in PC

Depending on ur needs actually, if u are Using the macbook for normal usage.
The non-touchbar is good enough.

But if u like the following, no harm to spend a little more for the touch bar too,
1) Touch ID - certainly a good and convenient feature for anyone, especially MacBook Pro one is 2nd gen, the same as iphone 7, fast and accurate for payment, unlocking your macbook or installing of apps or changing settings for your macbook.
2) 4 thunderbolt 3 ports - now maybe overkilled, but one cannot deny that it will make the machine more future proof.
3) 28W vs 15W Processor - The touchbar version can technically run at full speed much longer than the non-touchbar version, due to the throttling by the heat. For normal tasks, one may not be able to tell the difference this is true, but it is also something to consider. The base clock rate is higher for touchbar version explains this.
4) Touchbar - yes, it may not be perceived as essential now, but with the software upgrade and better support for third party app, this may not a bad thing to have. At least for touchbar version, one possess the full potential of the MacBook Pro comparing to the non-touchbar version, no matter u really use the touchbar or not, at least you have a choice anytime later. And the extra of touchbar is just a fraction of the total price of the macbook.

Wow that's certainly more extra perks for touchbar version. Thanks a lot

yup, bootcamp is better. i prefer to use either Mac or Bootcamp (Windows) and not both at the same time.

if got budget just get the TB version

because using parallel cannot fully utilised memory. graphics etc. shared with mac.

bootcamp different story.

i use parallel just to use IE for my company website. yes my company a bit oldskool........must use IE lol

Using MacBook Pro TB 2016 version. Got it earlier this month and so far I really enjoy it. Web browsing, Youtube and movie is no complaint with the retina screen either.

Only things is to backup my pen drive and format to FAT system otherwise I most my excel read only and I can't saving any new files into it.

u can format to exFAT but also other ways

if wanna use NTFS and gain write access, install paragon NTFS for mac

vice versa as for windows, install paragon HFS+ in windows to gain read/write access for HFS+ format hdd

if youre using iphones and ipad along with you then a macbook will come very handy..

exFat is not a good format to use, it is not compatible in a lot of devices.

install third party tool to manage NTFS in MacOS is a better option. NTFS is more widely recognized format afterall.

bro,
beside Paragon advise by Bro Fridaus, what program do you use?

that is one of the best one already

depends. if old system sometimes cannot read. but win10 and latest macos sure no issue.

I am not talking about computers I am talking about those home appliances.

depend also. if one wanna use pendrive or external drive. for external drive not recommended to format fat32.

u cannot transfer files more than 4gb if using fat32.

I never recommend fat32 I never recommend exfat as u suggest instead. At this century, no one should even think about fat32 in the first place.

Many home appliance or computer devices like tv, wireless router, cloud storage etc all do Nor recognise exfat but NTFs is certainly not a problem.

Since it can only be recognised mostly in computer systems, it is not useful file system if one is to use it across different systems.

that's why NTFS is the best file system to use. Since macOS or other OS can recognise it natively for read at least but Windows does not recognise hfs even for read without third party tool.
it is way easier to just stick to NTFS for everything and just make macOS capable to write on it.

This post has been edited by westlife: Aug 31 2017, 05:22 PM

parallel need to pay in order to get it right?

You need to buy the program if that is what u mean .. YES

Yup, i mean that..need to pay in order to get the program/app and it is not cheap..

For.common use just buy the cheapest macbook air

For normal use get the MacBook Air will be good...

If you buy Toshiba Canvio portable hard drives, it comes with free Tuxera that enables your Mac to write to NTFS file formatted drives

being using SSD for years...
not going to get HD anymore..
i hv severalmHigh Cap SSD can be use as external drive..
currently using 512GB SSD as my Macbook backup..

Careful bro. My SSD once died on me before. Once corrupt, percentage to recover data are very small.

same to our macbook also or other laptop... all also using SSD now..
that why i seldom use more than 2 year for my laptop or any external drive...
i keep changing every 1-2 year for all things that involve storage..

Did u get your MacBook yet

I have an old 2008 mbp. Cannot tahan the colour of the screen. Sitting at a corner now.