MacPro 17" Laptop 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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- TheeOtherJuan
Is this powerful enough? i need this for heavy ps work and some vid work (after effects). Can this machine handle it? Anyone with this comp let me know!
- ksv1230
of course.
- applepirate0
yeah just get the max RAM & you'll be golden
- For how long? Dont want to buy for at least 3 years.TheeOtherJuan
- TheeOtherJuan0
One more thing, will have 8gb of ram.
- ksv1230
plenty, plenty
- jfletcher0
I have 4Gb and do pretty well. With 8Gb I'd be burning!
- dropdown0
OH, GOOD FOR YOU!!!
- dropdown0
Let me ask you. What's your other option? Do you already have a desktop Mac? because if you can easily afford that MacBook Pro then why not go tits out and get the Mac Pro Desktop
- benfal990
People want laptops these days. Sometimes I wish my big fat Mac Pro would be movable and feather light like a laptop.
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- mirrorball0
Your grand on this MacPro one thing I've noticed, always turn off SAFARI when you need a good handful of ram, have noticed that it takes up to 1.3gb sometimes (though I do have about 40 odd sites running in tabs)
- I do that too and all those flash sites in tabs add up.CyBrain
- memory cell tell me the same thing w/ firefox - always thought it was just an errorfrediscrazy
- fyoucher10
I have that config w/ 8 gig. Plenty plenty.
Wait to buy though.
Snow Leopard coming Aug 28th. Apple also has something going on Sept 7th. Usually when that happens, upgrades and discounts happen as well.
- mirrorball0
I'd wait until after the 9th September too, if they do release an update I guess they will be even more built with Snow Leopard in mind.
- mirrorball0
Why not get a shit hot Mac Pro desktop and then buy this new tablet Apple are supposed to be coming out with for client meetings etc...
- deathboy0
get a fast hd. got a 17" mbp 4gigs of ram and performance sucks becuase of slow hd. of course if u want a workhorse just build a pc desktop on the cheap. or a more expensive mac if u care about the OS so much...... OSX's are friggin ram hogs. if u really want performance u should go windows.
- fuckin copycatdeathboy
- LOL! you're just mad cause you really want one.akrokdesign
- deathboy0
get a fast hd. got a 17" mbp 4gigs of ram and performance sucks becuase of slow hd. of course if u want a workhorse just build a pc desktop on the cheap. or a more expensive mac if u care about the OS so much...... OSX's are friggin ram hogs. if u really want performance u should go windows.
- with snow leopard and 64bit etc is the ram not more evenly spaced out for better performance?mirrorball
- dont know never ran snow leopard.deathboy
- xcarlx0
TheeOtherJuan, if you know that little about computers perhaps this might not be the profession for you.
sorry, just had to say it.
- no offense.xcarlx
- Hahahaha, don't you just love the expertise you get onlineraf
- I know nothing about a laptop. Always rely on the power of th tower.TheeOtherJuan
- raf0
The bottleneck of a computer is the hard drive: a desktop drive is still faster, even if both are 7200 rpm. That's the main difference between desktops and lapyops. Fast SSD memory will even (or wipe) this out soon though. Even if your MB doesn't come with one of these now, they'll be cheap enough upgrades in a year or two.
Note: I hear Apple installed SSD drives aren't the fastest around.You'll be ok getting your mb with a large 7200 rpm dirve, or better get a standard drive and upgrade it yoursrelf with a 7200 drive with 5 years warranty. It'll cost the same and you will have the original drive for external storage.
- i played with a mbp with a ssd and wasnt to impressed. im not sure about those drives yet on the writingdeathboy
- mirrorball0
will all new macs allow the hard drive to be swapped with a SSD drive if you decide to get one in the future when the price comes down?
- I understand so. It's the same SATA interface all along.raf
- akrokdesign0
better buy the 15" and hook it up to a 24" when working at the desk.
- akrokdesign0
don't run all shit on your main HD. get a fast EX. HD with Firewire 800.