MBP 15" Retina - who's using for Graphic Design and Audio?

[AndyDiamond]

Anyone here using MBPr 15" for serious graphics work?

That is page layout in ID, Quark, vector graphic work in Illustrator, extensive image retouching/creation in Photoshop etc?
Utilities such as Suitcase?

Also pro audio production with ProTools and Logic.

I have just relocated to another country and sold my MacPro 2.8 Octo/14GB RAM/240SSD/Radeon 7550/dual monitor set up and have purchased a 15" MBPr 2.7/16GB/768 to replace it as I need to be more portable.

I'd like to know how other graphics and audio professionals are finding MBPr.

Cheers.

 

[hawon]

I have rMBP with 16gb and 256gb. I use pro tools every day and even done 5.1 mix with this.

 

[MBrandonLee]

It's great with pro tools. I would recommend an external usb3.0 / thunderbolt drive as usual, especially with SSD as that's not good for the SSD to do audio because of all the write/rewrites.

I do wish I had more ports, but I think it's just the ridiculous backlog of thunderbolt interfaces, hubs and buses that have yet to come out.

 

[Update]

Moved... My analysis is best suited elsewhere as it doesn't answer the OP's question.

 

[AndyDiamond]

Thanks for the replies.

I have an external USB3 drive for all my work which gets backed up via TimeMachine to a separate USB drive (the MBPr SSD will also be backed up to this drive).

I agree the lack of hubs that reliably support USB3 is a bit frustrating - I like to use an external full size Apple keyboard which takes up one USB port. That leaves only one USB port for the external drive so I have to switch out the keyboard to run the backups. This isn't ideal as I prefer to have backups running in the background. I also have an iLok (that can be connected to a port on the external keyboard of course) and a dongle for Reason if I want to use it.
Not to mention a USB audio interface - I sold off my FireWire 003.
I guess a Thunderbolt drive will need to be added to free up a USB port but ideally a USB 3 would be good.

 

[MCAsan]

My wife uses a trend net USB 3 hub without any problem on her rmbp.