Stopped by Best Buy and picked up the high end base 13" Retina Macbook Pro (512GB SSD, 8GB RAM, i5 2.6GHz). They had $200 off for cyber monday. Still in the box at the moment while I organize files on the hackintosh desktop.
I figured the purpose of laptops are portability/productivity and to be passable at everything else. Ponying up the extra $1,000 for the 15" gets you a slightly larger screen, slightly faster cpu and graphics and less battery life. Something about the speaker grilles on either side of the 15" keyboard bothers me too. Maybe when we have mobile GPUs (integrated or discrete) that can drive a 4K panel at 60Hz with Starcraft 2 on Ultra, I'll finally be able to retire my desktop and consolidate to just a laptop.
I also got Lightroom 5 and Fusion 6 today on sale. I'm iTunes Matching my music and converting my photos to DNG. Just need to pare down and organize my backup so I can seed it to crashplan and my cloudification will be mostly complete.
Next up Henge Dock, 2TB USB3.0 passport, AC router, Apple TV and iMac 27", small reference speakers, and Apogee MiC.
On windows boxes I've always pared down services to keep resource and bloat. I know you can strip out all the other language support files and stuff like that, any services I should can to keep things speedy? All the TRIM stuff is taken care of but the OS?
I figured the purpose of laptops are portability/productivity and to be passable at everything else. Ponying up the extra $1,000 for the 15" gets you a slightly larger screen, slightly faster cpu and graphics and less battery life. Something about the speaker grilles on either side of the 15" keyboard bothers me too. Maybe when we have mobile GPUs (integrated or discrete) that can drive a 4K panel at 60Hz with Starcraft 2 on Ultra, I'll finally be able to retire my desktop and consolidate to just a laptop.
I also got Lightroom 5 and Fusion 6 today on sale. I'm iTunes Matching my music and converting my photos to DNG. Just need to pare down and organize my backup so I can seed it to crashplan and my cloudification will be mostly complete.
Next up Henge Dock, 2TB USB3.0 passport, AC router, Apple TV and iMac 27", small reference speakers, and Apogee MiC.
On windows boxes I've always pared down services to keep resource and bloat. I know you can strip out all the other language support files and stuff like that, any services I should can to keep things speedy? All the TRIM stuff is taken care of but the OS?
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