Here's a CPU benchmark comparing my current machine and the mid-2012.

They are willing to finance me a Macbook Pro and found one they could afford: a MacBook Pro 13' mid-2012 - Ivy Bridge i7-3520M 2.90GHz, 8gb ram ( these specs I guess - priced around 910 USD while a newer one is around 1500-2000 USD - my HP costed around 400 USD ). The playback while editing has been really bad - even though I can handle some laggy days and don't care about the final exporting time (I'm at Windows 10 using Premiere CC 2015 (plus Lumetri for coloring), exporting at 1080p, working with 1080p footage sometimes with some 2k from a DJI Phantom - the playback for the 2k footage is ridiculous) In addition, this model has a backlit keyboard, a 'no button' glass 'inertial' multi-touch trackpad, a 'MagSafe 2' power adapter, and an internal, sealed battery that provides an Apple estimated 7 hours of battery life.Right now I'm doing some freelance jobs editing videos for a friend's video company using my 2014 HP laptop ( Haswell i5-4200U 1.60GHz, HD4400, 4gb ram - full specs here) and it's not been a good experience. It does not have Gigabit Ethernet or Firewire '800,' although adapters are available at extra cost. It does not have an internal optical drive.Ĭonnectivity includes 3-stream AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0, two USB 3.0 ports, two 'Thunderbolt' ports, an HDMI port, an audio in/out port, and an SDXC card slot. This particular model - the MacBook Pro 'Core i7' 2.3 15-Inch (Mid-2012 Retina Display) features a 22 nm 'Ivy Bridge' 2.3 GHz Intel 'Core i7' processor (3615QM), with four independent processor 'cores' on a single silicon chip, a 6 MB shared level 3 cache, dual graphics processors - a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory and an 'integrated' Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics processor that shares system memory, as well as an integrated 720p FaceTime HD webcam.

Mid 2012 macbook pro 13 i7