I recently purchased a 15" i7 266. To be honest it is a bit overkill for what I do with it. I upgraded to 8 gigs ram which does help with virtual machines. But I didn't notice anything drastic upgrading from my 2.53 core 2 duo machine. I put the 7200 hard drive in from my old machine, but it really seems to be slowing down. Time for a fresh install. I just got a friend a 2nd gen blackbook and I swear that machine feels faster than mine. I don't know why.
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Did You Buy A HIGH Spec MBP?
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To me yes, I bought top of the line everything in august except for the ssd because this is going to be my computer for the next 6-7 years. I had enough money at the time and if I would have done more research at the time I could have got more because I paid the $360 to apple for 8gig of ram along with the $45 for the 7200 rpm hdd.
I bought the base 2010 15" MBP 2.4 i5 last month from Amazon for $1,675 no tax and free shipping. I just doubled the RAM and am using all 8Gb for Photoshop CS5. Next I will likely get a Hitachi 500gb 7200 rpm drive for about $69 (I don't care if it takes 4 seconds longer to launch an application so not in the market for an SSD besides I prefer the storage space and performance is already great. For $200 more I could have gotten a 5% faster laptop but instead that $200 gets invested in more ram and bigger and faster hard drive. Already sold my old ram for $40 and will use my 320gb stock drive as a cloned backup.
Very happy and would do it again. As long as it does everything I need fast I don't believe in future proofing since the extra money spend up front is best used to upgrade more frequently since prices drop fast. Next year Light peak and Sandy Bridge, year after that big and affordable SSD drives, then IPS panels... I would rather spend less upfront and upgrade every two years than three, but if you need more power today then just get it
Very happy and would do it again. As long as it does everything I need fast I don't believe in future proofing since the extra money spend up front is best used to upgrade more frequently since prices drop fast. Next year Light peak and Sandy Bridge, year after that big and affordable SSD drives, then IPS panels... I would rather spend less upfront and upgrade every two years than three, but if you need more power today then just get it
My strategy: I would not buy any "high spec" that I could change by myself such as ram and Hard drive.
So i brought 15" i7 with 4G and 500G(7200rpm Just $50more so worth it) and HD screen.
just my personal opinion
So i brought 15" i7 with 4G and 500G(7200rpm Just $50more so worth it) and HD screen.
just my personal opinion