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Help me decide between the new base model 15" or the 17"
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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Technically his VRAM is out of date...not what I was trying to say but that works too lol
Yes, I understood the amount of VRAM is out of date.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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Double thumbs up, dude!!!
Now I'm just jealous because I want an SSD
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.
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
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
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.