From: "Rick Gerard" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:22:11 -0700
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Sender:  Rick Gerard <ae@mstrg.com>

I have a fully loaded MacBookPro Retina, by that I mean just checked all =
of the upgrade boxes and ordered max speed, RAM, storage, and I bought a =
Segate Thunderbolt adaptor for just under 100. You can plug a bare drive =
into this adaptor and transfer speeds are amazing.=20

I bought 2 naked SSD drives and 2 1TB Hybrid drives to use as externals =
for freelance work and file transfers. I stuck a suction cup on the back =
of the adaptor and stick it to the lid of my MBPro to keep things easy =
to move around when I need external storage.=20

This is my second MacBookPro R. I kept the first one for 15 months then =
sold it for 70% of what I paid for it in 2 days and picked up the new =
one. The key to the sale was Extended Apple Care.

First, the machine is plenty fast for most HD work, there=92s enough =
real-estate to do a lot of my out of office work without an extra =
monitor. When I=92m home, or even when I=92m out of the office sometimes =
I plugin to an external monitor with HDMI or Thunderbolt.=20

I=92m working on a contract for a big project and I=92ll probably lease =
a middle of the road MacPro for that job because it will involve a bunch =
more hefty rendering than I want to do on a laptop. Even if I buy, Apple =
is offering 0% interest through berkley right now, I=92m sure I could =
sell the machine in a year with very little out of pocket.=20

When the intel iMac was first released I bought one at MacWorld, bought =
an iLugger case for it, and carried it around like a laptop for 2 years, =
then sold it to a client. They are still using it for their in house =
presentations. When the MacBook Pro R was released I was using a newer =
iMac and still dragging it around in a bag. Switching to the MBPro =
turned out to be the best hardware purchase I ever made.=20

Hope that helps.

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Rick Gerard
Northern Ca

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