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One additional thing - Apple do have a refurb store - all the machines come with a 1 year apple warranty - the stock changes all the time - worth keeping an eye on - Apple Refurb Store The Retina screen is beautiful - I have one, and I can tell you that it's the finest laptop screen I've used in 20 years spending all my time around computers - but I bought this myself and I baby the machine no end - I just can't hand on heart tell you to pay the extra €300 for one to send into a college with your daughter.

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If it was me, I'd go for the 15' Pro (not Retina) - The education store price starts at €1737.99 :eek: and I have to recommend you at least up the memory to 8GB which is another €100 (sorry). I think you should discount the Airs as I think they'd be too limited for your daughter, so it's really a choice between the Pro and the Pro Retina - both have 13' and 15' screen options - but again for editing photos I think the 15' would be a better choice.

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MacBook Pro Retina - smaller than the standard Pro and have much better screens - but more expensive and SSD only, so no hard disk upgrade.MacBook Pro - larger and heavier - but with more options (notably you can upgrade the hard disk in these).MacBook Airs - small & light, but limited in storage, CPU and screen space.And obviously a bigger and higher resolution screen would be helpful.Īpple laptops are really in three lines these days: In general when you are buying a laptop you need to think about it's main use - in this case your daughters course - a few requirements out of this - editing photo's tends to require a reasonable amount of disk space (to store them), which turns into a reasonable amount of memory (to edit them) and a reasonably powerful CPU (to manipulate them) - most Windows machines allow you to upgrade the memory and disk space - in general this isn't possible for Mac's - so what you buy now has to be up still to the job in a few years time.

(Before I start I'm an IT professional with an amateur photography habbit - I think I'm in a reasonable person to advise you - but please, please get as much advice as you can - at this stage it costs nothing - once you have a machine you'll have spent your money)

I'm afraid on a cost basis this isn't going to be pleasant - Mac's are pricy and I suspect your daughter is going to need one of the more expensive ones.

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