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Help me decide between the new base model 15" or the 17"
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MacSince1990
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Prodo123
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GDDR3 vs GDDR5
Technically his VRAM is out of date...not what I was trying to say but that works too lol
Yes, I understood the amount of VRAM is out of date. Clearly 256 Mb wasn't enough.
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Best way to go is SSD + optibay, IMO. OS X, apps, documents, photos on the SSD, everything else on HDD through symlinks.
That was one reason I wanted a current unibody MBP. Powerful enough, classic design, and a nice place for my optibay. I'm sure the "residigned" 2012 model isn't going to cut it for 2 hdd...
Recently I bought a cheap (80) Kingston V+100 96 Gb for my wife PC from amazon.co.uk.
Best upgrade you can do on a computer nowadays.
Prodo123
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Erasmus
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Hey OP, what kind of SSD do you have? And how does it perform in the 17"?
As I use Boot Camp with Windows 7, even using Optibay, I think I'd need a 256GB SSD, which at the moment are just too expensive for me to justify.
As SSDs are now saturating SATA 3 bandwidth, I'm hoping the race to the top in speed will shift to a race to the bottom in price over the next few months 🙂
...Yeah ok, but one can dream 😛
As I use Boot Camp with Windows 7, even using Optibay, I think I'd need a 256GB SSD, which at the moment are just too expensive for me to justify.
As SSDs are now saturating SATA 3 bandwidth, I'm hoping the race to the top in speed will shift to a race to the bottom in price over the next few months 🙂
...Yeah ok, but one can dream 😛
I have one Crucial m4 128 Gb + one WD scorpio black 750 Gb.
It performs great, I'm getting the advertised read/write speed, and no signs of hang ups/beachballing.