Technically you could do all that you need, but technically you could do it all on a RaspberryPi, you'd just be waiting forever while it encodes and decodes. Your life is going to suck while you wait and wait and wait. I'm on a 2014 with the i7 upgrade, and I'm jumping ship to the new M1Pros, this machine is still good and the keyboard is great, it's fine for watching video, but for editing and converting it really drags. My 2014 looks fine when it is running, but it picks up marks and looks awful when the backlight goes off. If you live in the US and have good credit you could get a base mpr from best buy with their card for 1800, and finance it for 36 months with 0 percent interest, or even an air with the same 10% discount and financing if you want to go even cheaper.įinding a good 2015 is hard to find IMO, 20 had the screen coating issue. The batteries on these things go fast so try to get one that has been recently replaced. If you go this route I would pay special attention to how much wear the machine has and it's battery health as that may indicate how much it has been used. If you factor in this risk it still might be cheaper to buy very used if they are cheap enough, and then buy another clunker when that one fails, but you will also have to deal with this hassle, back ups, and having a crappier computer. It is like buying a 20 year old car, it could become totalled simply by a part failing. I would only buy one that old if it was very, very cheap. The machine is basically totalled in that it costs more to fix it than it's worth. Other parts might also fail later so it is definitely not worth it to repair. My 2015 logic board and battery just failed which would cost about 1k to replace. I would be worried about the machine breaking.
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