I'm wondering about people's opinions: I want to get a MBP, either the low end or mid range. I won't be doing anything GPU intensive, mainly programming. Given the price difference is $500 between the two machines, I'm thinking paying the extra for GPU memory for the mid range is very expensive. The extra 100Mhz isn't going to make a lot of difference - 2.4 v 2.5Ghz. The extra hard disc capacity is nice - and thats just $50 extra. I'm hoping this machine will last at least 3 years. So, I'm thinking of going with the low end and the 250Meg hard disc. Thoughts? Thanks
Based on what you say your needs are, that's exactly what you should get. You don't need the faster one.
I concur. I also think that getting the 7200 rpm 200GB for $100 is definitely worth it. That's what I did.
Yes, finally. She is very very (so soooo) happy LOL -- no, I can't adopt any more kids. I'm gonna be a poor man for at least the next 6 years (my other daughter is 16).
2.4 v 2.5 I'm also getting a macbook pro. How big of a difference is the .1 Ghz and the extra 256 MB of GDDR3 memory? I am going to be editing some video on it, but I dont think that these little upgrades will make that big of a difference for $500.
The 2.5GHz Penryn processor has 6MB L2 Cache, but the 2.4GHz only has 3MB L2 Cache. I'm not sure what that actually translates to in real-world performance. Either way, if you are just doing programming, you aren't going to notice much of a difference. An imperceptible difference in compile times, if even that.