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[quote=Anonymous]I am an elementary ESL teacher, and had nightmare issues this past spring (freezing, dropped Zoom meetings, etc.). I have recently upgraded router, WiFi, and extenders.

I do not want the quality of my tech to interfere with my distance teaching, if at all possible.

I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro with 2.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory, 256GB PCIe-based flash storage.

Zoom says that “Dual and single core laptops have a reduced frame rate when screen sharing (around 5 frames per second). For optimum screen sharing performance on laptops we recommend a quad core processor or higher.” Does this mean my processor is slow?

Things I think I would like to be able to do:

- use a secondary device (monitor, iPad, etc.) so that I can simultaneously share my screen and see ALL of my students (when I use only my mbp and share my screen, I can only see a few of my students — others disappear) — this is crucial because of the language issue. I think duet display and sidecar enable this?
- have no issues with showing a video with sound
- use a document camera 
- have the full options of the Zoom application (I don’t think all the options show up on my current mbp?)
- use my iPad and Apple Pencil as a whiteboard
- not have to worry about having several applications running at the same time
- be able to use other peripherals that might help (external webcam, external microphone, etc.)

My current mbp has audio jack issues (microphone cuts in and out). I’d like my new laptop to be good for 5+ years.

Should I upgrade now? Suggestions on specs?

Thanks!

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