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["Jim Ray" <jim AT neuse.net>]

You pay big bucks for greatest performance. If you just have money to burn, do it.

 

Myself, well, I bought a 2 year old StinkPad from Amazon or somewhere, love it and let someone else take the accounting hit on depreciable assets.

 

If I were buying new, I would pay for extra DRAM memory yet not for extra processor speed or SRAM memory (cache). The primary bottleneck in computer architecture is still the electromagnetic hard drive anyway.

 

Now, if they have a solid state hard drive, you will directly address that primary bottleneck…

 

From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Susan LaBarre
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:13 AM
To: 'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'
Subject: [internetworkers] Mac Users: Mac Book Pro 15"... 2.5 or 2.8?

 

Help. With the tax holiday coming up, I'm finally ready to buy my Mac this week. It's like coming home after a long, ugly trip!!

 

I've done my store research and online research but there's no better resource than this list. I know some of you are Mac users. Is it worth the extra $300 for the processing speed and the additional 300 in cache? I spend most of my time in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and on the web.

 

Yes, price IS a consideration, but performance is too. I'm desperate to dump this 5 year old dinosaur of a Dell which is so slow and vram deprived, it won't even open my CS3 programs. And it can't drive a bigger monitor.

 

Also... any preference to windows xp portal ap: VM Ware Fusion vs Parallels Desktop. Price is same, so it's a matter of which program performs better. I expect to continue using my windows version of Outlook, Word, and Excel. (I could switch to Neo Office, but as a contractor, I don't want to get rusty on my windows skills.)

 

Any help in deciding this quickly will be greatly appreciated!!

 

Susan

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