I am looking to buy a new macbook. I am not sure whether to go for the Air, 13inch Retina or 15inch Retina.

I mainly use my current laptop for browsing the internet on my sofa, however I also want to be able to use photoshop and logic without a struggle.
My thinking so far is, MBA 13inch is portable and fast with good battery. rMBP 13 is more powerful but still portable. rMBP 15 has better graphics performance than the 13ich and might be worth the extra and sacrifice some portability.
Thoughts?
Thanks.

If you're going to start using Photoshop, you'll get much better performance from the 15" rMBP's discrete video card. I wish that I had gone for the full 1GB card on my 15" non-Retina because, sometimes, the 512GB discrete card just isn't powerful enough. If you're looking at portability, then I'm assuming that you wouldn't even consider the non-Retina 15"? I would rule the Air out entirely, so you're left, in my opinion, on the differences between the 13" and the 15" rMBP - and in performance, the 15" rMBP just can't be matched by the 13" model.
You may get some differences of opinion here - were it me, I'd go for a non-Retina 15" since you can still add your own RAM and a SSD to it. That being said, it's nowhere near as portable as the 15" rMBP.
Good luck with your journey...
Clinton

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