Yeah the 15" MBP is still relatively light weight and very slim, if its your primary machine I would definitely get that over the 13". I love my 13, but I use it as a secondary system for travel etc.
Agree with thomasp, the intel card is quite ok on the recent 13" MBP. However for anything 3D and gaming I stick to OS X, because it seems to manage the fan better(?) Under Windows the fans start going off almost immediately when doing anything 3D.
When doing light work, my MPB 13" Retina is virtually silent. When doing really heavy photoshop/lighroom work, the fans kick up quite a bit, but even on full blast is quite tolerable compared to some other high end laptops I've had. As thomas notes, any laptop with a GPU is going to have heating issues, so if fan noise…
Thanks for replying EarthQuake! Do you have the first Gen MBP 13" Retina or a quite new one as people report that the new models around late 2013 perform much better heat wise? I don't mind the fans kicking in with much load, but I can't stand if the device is having a load annoying fan behaviour while just doing some…
Clevor/Sager(same hardwar) laptops have much worse fan issues than a MBP. I had a 13" with a 750M and the fan was super loud and would cycle on and off for no apparent reason. The build quality with these laptops is also questionable as well, I broke the hinge on my within a year of normal use, and I had to have the LCD…
OSX would be my main reason to stick with the mac personally as a matter of OS preference and i also find it an excellent choice for laptop use since it is so tuned to the MBP hardware but then i also have a desktop machine for all the heavy duty CG work - and not too high an opinion of OSX ports of various CG apps. heck…
thomasp: Thanks for the long reply man! I've been able to check out OSX on a friends laptop again and overall it just feels "nicer", so I think I'll end up with a Macbook once my Wacom Companion is refunded :) Thinking about the way of using it I'll probably use it as my main "work pc", regarding Photoshop and simple 3D…