Need help with Macbook Pro

[farsisub]

Hello Fellas

I have decided to purchase a Macbook Pro.I have reduced my options to two models with approximately same price - one new and one used - and I cannot decide which one is better for me to buy. They are the following:


Used
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
MGX92XX/A
13.3"/2.8 Dual-core i5/8GB/512-Flash, Iris Graphic 5100
$1,500
(This model thankfully, has been taken care of extremely well and even seems brand new, no scratches on body or screen also battery cycle is less than 10 !!!!!!!!!!!).


New
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
MF840xx/A
13.3”/2.7 i5/8GB/256-Flash, Iris Graphic 6100, Force Touch Pad
$1,600


Can anybody please provide me with suggestions as to which purchase would be better? I'm not going to use any specific or heavy process with these, just running coding software like Matlab, watching movies and maybe sometimes game.
Does anybody know differences between Iris Intel Graphic 5100 and 6100? Is it a serious option that i have to take into consideration or SSD storage is more important, of course by your experience?

Thanks

 

[jaguarskx]

CPU wise, there is only a minor performance increase of about 4% going from 4th gen Haswell to 5th gen Broadwell.

From what I have read the Iris Graphic 6100 is supposed to have about 10% - 15% better performance than the Iris Graphic 5100. Due to the small price difference of $100 I would simply buy the new MacBook Pro to get the benefits of having a warranty and slightly better specs.

 

[farsisub]

CPU wise, there is only a minor performance increase of about 4% going from 4th gen Haswell to 5th gen Broadwell.

From what I have read the Iris Graphic 6100 is supposed to have about 10% - 15% better performance than the Iris Graphic 5100. Due to the small price difference of $100 I would simply buy the new MacBook Pro to get the benefits of having a warranty and slightly better specs.

what about higher CPU ferequency and SSD flash drive? aren't these important ?

 

[farsisub]

CPU wise, there is only a minor performance increase of about 4% going from 4th gen Haswell to 5th gen Broadwell.

From what I have read the Iris Graphic 6100 is supposed to have about 10% - 15% better performance than the Iris Graphic 5100. Due to the small price difference of $100 I would simply buy the new MacBook Pro to get the benefits of having a warranty and slightly better specs.

what about higher CPU frequency and SSD flash drive? aren't these important ?

 

[jaguarskx]

Since Broadwell CPUs have about 4% better performance than the previous Haswell CPUs, that means the 2.7GHz Broadwell CPU is equivalent to a 2.8GHz Haswell CPU; 2.7GHz x1.04 = 2.808GHz. Therefore, the difference is more or less meaningless. Beside, even if there was actually a 100MHz performance difference you would not be able to tell difference unless you run benchmark tests and it would be pretty minor.


I didn't notice the difference difference in SSD capacity so that is an important difference. If you are okay with buying a used MacBook, then go for it.