A bit of help choosing a MAC

[collectordave]

After using PB for a few months and saving my pennies I now wish to purchase a MAC portable to compliment my Windows portable .

I know very little about MACs. I wish to use the MAC portable mainly to programme in PB but also for playing my music and video files most of which require a HDMI output and are stored on a few external drives mostly connected by USB.

Can anyone help point me at a good MAC portable to do all the above. Budget is not limitless but is reasonable. I have a little experience with a MAC mini so are the portables just as easy to setup?

Cheers

collectordave

[TI-994A]

...mainly to programme in PB but also for playing my music and video files most of which require a HDMI output and are stored on a few external drives mostly connected by USB.

Can anyone help point me at a good MAC portable to do all the above. Budget is not limitless but is reasonable.

They have quite a range, although it would boil down to your needs, and ultimately, your budget.

>> Mac Models

I would personally advise against the new MacBook, as it is pricier, but port-poor. One single miserable USB-C port is all you get, for your charging and auxiliary needs.

[collectordave]

Thanks

Good to compare.

My needs these days are just for a good portable to use for programming etc and I have found that Pure Basic does the job on the MAC plus controlling my music and video collection(Mp3 and AVI files.

Some say

External USB SuperDrive (sold separately)

I allready have seven terrabytes of external drives is that just apples version and will they all still work?

Sorry to be a pain.

[jack]

any usb or fire wire hard drive should work ok, don't know about dvd drives.

[wilbert]

A 13.3" MacBook Pro might be a good choice.
The retina version has a hdmi port, for the non retina version you can use an adapter (as you can for any Mac that doesn't have a hdmi port).
Setting it up is not different from a Mac Mini.

The Apple USB SuperDrive is an external dvd writer (has nothing to do with hdd).
I have one and it is working fine on my iMac but doesn't always seem to work on non Apple computers.

[collectordave]

Ah Thanks to all