With the video card you also get realtime performance with Premiere, which is really useful if you edit too.

Rich

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From: Rick Gerard <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2014 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs. iMac

I just picked up a new MBPro R 15’ from the Apple Store yesterday. Loaded CC14 suite on it and things are running perfectly. Sold my previous model for a little more than 60% of the purchase price with 15 months left on Apple Care. I added just a little under $1400 to the money I got for my used MBPro R and walked out of the store a happy man.

I too would go for the 15” The performance of the 2.3 GHz i7 is really good, the GPU can be utilized for Ray-traced rendering if you really need to do that. I picked the most loaded one they had in the store because I’m leaving on a trip and couldn’t wait for the full meal deal. Saved me about a thousand, and while I would rather have a TB of storage, 500GB will do fine for what I’m doing for now. If I get pushed on performance or storage I can always sell it and upgrade. Within the first year there, if history repeats itself, the price difference will be negligible.

On Jul 5, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Peter Matulavich <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

> I realize you will be running a large monitor with your laptop, but even if you were to only occasionally  use your laptop alone, I would highly recommend the 15" inch.  The 13" is really small.  Too bad they apparently no longer offer the 17" which is the one I have.  It's also a big plus to get a quad core.  Bottom line, if you are sure you will be happy with a laptop, then get the 15" without question.  I recently went back and forth with this very decision for a laptop for my fiance and we wound up getting an iMac AND an iPad for just a little more than a 15" laptop.  She's thrilled with the choice.  Of course, she won't need to be running AE on either.
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> Pete

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