Are owners of the 2011 13" MBP happy with your purchase

hello everyone. first of all, let me in no way trying offend anyone. asking because tempted purchase machine. have read if ram increased 8gb's, amount of video ram increased 512. guess i'm scared because machine not have dedicated gpu. admit machine using ancient old girl, has been me through thick , thin. current mac g4 emac 1.42ghz g4 , 64mb of video ram. don't want buy gonna disappointed with. how keyboard? comfortable type on long periods of time? know may sound odd question, lot of writing. had posted thread on here month ago , got lot of great responses. have been looking @ 15" machines on amazon , reviews there. mentioned 15" mbp keyboard had wider spacing of keys used , liked lot after got used it. tempted top of line 15", don't want stupid , buy ferrari if need jeep wrangler. guess i'm being silly, keep reading reviews on amazon saying 2011 13" model step backwards compared previous model because previous model came nvidia gpu. use computer surf web , write. watch movies on youtube , hulu. current machine no longer supported on hulu , gets me have been user of os x since first mac, 500mhz g3 imac came os x disc 10.0.3 (i'm pretty sure version of x came with). don't want have buy new computer every 2 or 3 years. want theoretically use 8 years if wanted , why wondering if need top of line 15". know sounds crazy of , suppose might be. if buy 13" going purchase 750gb hd. know ssd better in many ways, rather have huge traditional hd. have pretty sized music library , have lot of podcasts. keep of itunes library on external 1tb drive use time machine. thank replies.

sincerely,

larry campbell
hickory, nc

p.s. remember if 13" not need upgrade cpu. remember advice last time asked question 13" mbp.

 

i think listed great on 13", i'm typing reply on 2011 13" right now. of things listed, manly e-mail, web surfing, financial software via parallels , lots of youtube vids , love machine, did drop 4gb of ram in watching activity monitor realize machine never uses on 3 or 4 gb feel better there.

can't speak size difference on keyboard between different models, have 13", luck decision, don't think go wrong either model

 

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