Refurb MBA or refurb rMBP

hello wonderful people of internet! (or trolls, guess)

anyway have decided abandoning 3 year old windows laptop (except gaming, still reason) in favor of shiny new (or in case refurbished) macbook, using for:

streaming video, surfing web (forums, social media ect.), light photoshop , video editing (i'm photoagrahy), school/homework, not torrenting things, playing odd low graphics indie game/roguelike , possibly setting parallel run linux or windows.

main deciding factors portability(i taking school), battery life(previous reason), ram/speed(for paralells, photoshop , games), storage(will download lots of stuff, use sd card, old laptop or family nas this).

models comparing are:


and



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rmbp pros (hehe) , cons

pros:
-much more powerful mba
-8gigs of ram
-retina display
-more ports

cons:
-less storage mba
-less portable
-less battery
-more expensive

mba pros , cons

pros:
-very portable
-amazing battery life
-more storage
-cheaper

cons:
-much less powerful rmbp
-less ram
-worse screen rmbp



note: prices in cad, while 2 pictures above models i'm considering, if can find version relatively same price better suited, feel free post them down below, want computer last @ least 3-4 years.

 

to last 3-4 years, i'd suggest saving/stretching 2.6/8/256 rmbp.

if that's impossible, rmbp - ram , cpu mean more useful down road, , can use external storage, whether in cloud or external drives. rmbp seems hold resale better.

 

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