£3000 is insane! I got my wife an HP Probook 14" for £700 that would work fine, but for £900 (less about £50 cashback) you can have this 15.6" probook with 16GB RAM, fast processor, 15.6" screen, and a separate GPU that would work great!
tim Light Bringer ![]() 51,009 posts Likes: 373 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand More info | Jun 08, 2020 16:25 | #16 £3000 is insane! I got my wife an HP Probook 14" for £700 that would work fine, but for £900 (less about £50 cashback) you can have this 15.6" probook Professional wedding photographer, solution architect and general technical guy with multiple Amazon Web Services certifications.
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But its running W10 R5 | 7D II | iPhone 12 Pro
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davesrose Title Fairy still hasn't visited me! 4,391 posts Likes: 829 Joined Apr 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA More info Post edited 10 months ago by davesrose. | Jun 08, 2020 21:22 | #18 I'm platform agnostic: had been a PC user for 3D animation and recently have whole Apple environment devices (iPhone, iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro). There's no doubt that the MacBook is way more expensive compared to PC. But what you get is the Mac OS (as I've needed for that intension) and good specs for a portable workstation (multicore i-9 in small form factor). I do think it funny that you can find a cheap PC laptop that has touchscreen, while Apple is adamant that a touchbar is all you need. For software development, I am enjoying the certain ease I'm finding with a Unix environment. But I'm also finding I should stay cross platform. Just recently have been having to scan documents with my older Canon flatbed scanner. The Mac will not recognize it unless I buy 3rd party software, while Windows 10 recognizes it and can easily scan with WIA import. Canon 5D mk IV
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Jun 08, 2020 21:56 | #19 I'm a long time Mac user who is just now putting my toes back in the PC water with Windows 10. But I've still got a recent IMac and Macbook pro to compare. My flickr
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davesrose Title Fairy still hasn't visited me! 4,391 posts Likes: 829 Joined Apr 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA More info | Jun 08, 2020 22:43 | #20 I’d still downplay needing a large internal SDD with the MacBook Pro. Reason being that for system files, it’s going to be way less than 1TB, you can easily save data via the external thunderbolt 3, and since everything is soldered onto the Mac, you will lose all data if there is a short (when certain Youtube channels do highlight how there are some certain cheap chips on the logic board short and render the SSD dead). Canon 5D mk IV
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Jun 08, 2020 22:54 | #21 davesrose wrote in post #19075926 ![]() I’d still downplay needing a large internal SDD with the MacBook Pro. Reason being that for system files, it’s going to be way less than 1TB, you can easily save data via the external thunderbolt 3, and since everything is soldered onto the Mac, you will lose all data if there is a short (when certain Youtube channels do highlight how there are some certain cheap chips on the logic board short and render the SSD dead). My flickr
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Hedley THREAD STARTER Member ![]() 197 posts Likes: 2 Joined Apr 2008 Location: UK More info Post edited 10 months ago by Hedley. | You're not wrong but whilst I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means it's not a wholly fair comparison. The PC would definitely work but it doesn't list the gen. of the i7- the clock speed is under half that of the Macbook base build, the SSD is half the size, it's a lower res screen and the GPUs are barely comparable - https://gpu.userbenchmark.com …ro-5500M/m439531vsm960765 _______________
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davesrose Title Fairy still hasn't visited me! 4,391 posts Likes: 829 Joined Apr 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA More info | I find I have plenty of space with 500GB to have all my programs, development projects, current photos I’m editing, current videos I’m compressing, and Bootcamp installed. I’ll offload data files when I’m done with them...but even so, the new external thunderbolt 3 SSDs are quite fast on their own. Canon 5D mk IV
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Jun 15, 2020 14:55 | #24 Held off on the purchase as I found a decent SSD and the kit to get the front off the old iMac. Someone is going to give me some extra RAM and assures me you can actually fit to the 2015 model. We’ll see how that turns out _______________
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Man good luck as that procedure is not for the faint of heart. R5 | 7D II | iPhone 12 Pro
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John from PA Cream of the Crop 10,663 posts Likes: 1281 Joined May 2003 Location: Southeast Pennsylvania More info | Jun 15, 2020 16:14 | #26 gossamer88 wrote in post #19079024 ![]() Man good luck as that procedure is not for the faint of heart. Yep, I would be reading the thread at https://forums.macrumors.com …ion-drive-to-ssd.2123013/
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Update - this model didn't need the thermal sensor cable so it was a pretty simple swap out for the SSD. RAM can't be touched as I suspected. Strangely only this particular iteration of iMacs came with it soldered on. Anyway, this thing is flying now. Boot up is under 10 seconds (it was minutes), reading from disk is instant in Photoshop and even Lightroom has no lag. _______________
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