From: "Steve Oakley" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs. iMac
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 21:29:00 -0500
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i7 is big performance gain over 2 core since its 4+4 HT.=20

my current laptop has 256 SSD in replacement of system drive and I =
removed the optical to put a 750G 7200 rpm drive in. considering either =
512gb SSD or 1tb spinning drive. SSD will gave much better battery life, =
but the 750 is constantly full and I'm always juggling projects on it. =
to bad large SSD's are still expensive. that said I edit and have =
actually finished client projects on this machine PP edit, AE graphics, =
Resolve grade, AME export and these are projects with 10 layers of video =
in PP in including ultra keyer.

S

On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

> On 05/07/2014, at 6:35 AM, Peter Matulavich <AE-List@media-motion.tv> =
wrote:
>> As far as a retina screen, are you sure you need it?  My MBP is razor =
sharp without it  -- one of the best screens I've seen and sharper than =
my iMac's I would say, but that's probably because it's a much smaller =
screen.
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> I didn't realise that you could get one without the retina display.  I =
hadn't really looked into it, hence the post.  I just had a look online =
and saw that Apple still sell the previous, non-retina 13" Macbook Pro =
model too- with an SSD that would be quite appealing as it's upgradable. =
 Not sure how the graphics compares.
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> When I posted originally my iMac had just died and I didn't think I'd =
get it working again, I was thinking I'd have to make a purchase the =
next day.  But I did get it up and running again, so the hope is that by =
the time it dies for the 3rd time Apple will have released an updated =
range (they're roughly due for an update) and I'll make the decision =
then.
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> Actually the screen is the least of my concerns, I'm wondering if it's =
worth spending more for the 15" and getting a quad-core.  The 13" models =
are all dual.  Maybe that will change with the next release, who can =
tell=85
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