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Best MacBook Pro 13 setup
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C'mon someone
Stop spamming the forum. You don't need to post every hour or so. We have a life and don't visit the forum every minute to give advise.
Work bought me a 13" rMBP I7 with 1TB SSD and 16gb RAM with the external monitor, keyboard, and trackpad.
Basically a completely maxed out 13" plus the monitor. It must have been pushing $3,698.00+ out the door.
This would be my next setup if I bought my own. Is it overkill? Probably, just doing web development and some server side stuff.
Basically a completely maxed out 13" plus the monitor. It must have been pushing $3,698.00+ out the door.
This would be my next setup if I bought my own. Is it overkill? Probably, just doing web development and some server side stuff.
Yes I was but the last thing you want to do is buy a 1,100 computer and realise it won't suite your needs since that is the main reason you buy it....
Only YOU really know what your needs are
For me, I needed more storage - Logic's full library is happier to be resident
on the system drive .... 256gb for ME would not be enough, for that and lots
of other library storage, I have a samsung EV0840 750gb SSD.
Since I could upgrade mine and on this model you can't "I WOULD" future proof
my purchase and get as much RAM / Storage as possible.
Again, that's right for me .... not everyone and maybe not you !
M.
LOL - so if it turns out not to meet your needs in some way it will be our fault?? Man up and buy it, or not or a different one. You are asking the impossible and expecting an answer in 20mins??? As above, in the end only YOU know what YOUR needs are....
Maxing out the 13" as some here have suggested makes zero sense from a price/performance ratio. Just as the best value of the Air is seen in the base iterations (w/possible RAM upgrade), the sweet-spot for its rMBP counterpart is clearly in the middle stock offering. To spend near or above $2000 specking up a dual-core 13" is insane when you can get the base 15" quad-core (Iris Pro) with far more power and capabilities for less than that. The 2.6 and 2.8 upgrades are miniscule and quite simply money wasters. PCI storage is amazing, but you're paying top $ for every extra storage level you go.
According to price/performance ratio the CPU upgrade is almost always the least favorite option.
First make sure about the Ram and storage.
First look at the RAM for the average user 8 gb ram might be enough in the most cases. unless you are really into video production but then you would know that you need more ram
Then you decide on the storage. Here it's really personal need and comfort if you want to put all your stuff on it like all your movies etc. mostly 256gb is enough , even if you have a 45gb logic x library (I don't exactly know how big such library can get). But you have always the option to expand the storage with external HDDs (with usb 3 or thunderbolt you have super fast transfer speeds )
So if your only concern is storage look for the 2.4 / 8 / 512 option ( don't know if it's in the refub store ) otherwise expand it with external drives for cheaper money!
First make sure about the Ram and storage.
First look at the RAM for the average user 8 gb ram might be enough in the most cases. unless you are really into video production but then you would know that you need more ram
Then you decide on the storage. Here it's really personal need and comfort if you want to put all your stuff on it like all your movies etc. mostly 256gb is enough , even if you have a 45gb logic x library (I don't exactly know how big such library can get). But you have always the option to expand the storage with external HDDs (with usb 3 or thunderbolt you have super fast transfer speeds )
So if your only concern is storage look for the 2.4 / 8 / 512 option ( don't know if it's in the refub store ) otherwise expand it with external drives for cheaper money!
According to price/performance ratio the CPU upgrade is almost always the least favorite option.
First make sure about the Ram and storage.
First look at the RAM for the average user 8 gb ram might be enough in the most cases. unless you are really into video production but then you would know that you need more ram
Then you decide on the storage. Here it's really personal need and comfort if you want to put all your stuff on it like all your movies etc. mostly 256gb is enough , even if you have a 45gb logic x library (I don't exactly know how big such library can get). But you have always the option to expand the storage with external HDDs (with usb 3 or thunderbolt you have super fast transfer speeds )
So if your only concern is storage look for the 2.4 / 8 / 512 option ( don't know if it's in the refub store ) otherwise expand it with external drives for cheaper money!
Thank you !!! That's really what I've been looking for in terms of reassurance . I can finally press the confirm button now
Thanks all for help despite my annoying bumps sorry I was just so keen!
Well I didn't pay for mine
. I can tell you this: having a completely maxed out 13" rMBP is best of both worlds for me. I've had it about 3 months and pretty much everything is instant. Only annoying thing are the fans - they are louder than my cMBP or my iMac when they rev up. We all have laptops and fellow colleagues with the 15" wish they got the 13" for portability reasons. 2014 builds (or most current) are super light, almost on par with the Air.