Originally Posted by
tmiw
I'm actually considering going back to the 15" from the 13". VMware and Flash seem to make my 13" rMBP's fan go full throttle, for one thing. I kinda get why for the former, but watching videos should not cause that to happen for the latter. It'd also be nice to have a separate GPU for games again. I'm not sure if I want those enough to deal with the weight penalty though, which is why I went to the 13" in the first place.
I suspect that's an issue with Flash on OS X, not the machine. As for VMWare, it should depend on what you're running on it, but two extra cores usually helps quite a bit with virtualization.
The Geforce 750M in last year's MBP 15 was disappointing for gaming (judging from PC laptops with the same GPU) but the series of AMD chips which the current one comes out of is getting better reviews (the exact model number used in the new MBP 15 is not yet available in any PCs, though.)
A bit surprising that Apple released that now, rather than in June/July for the quad-core Broadwells; I wonder if Intel's changed plans again and only told top-tier partners.