I had the same sort of cost issues. Either to purchase a new Macbook Pro or upgrade my existing late 2008 model Macbook Pro by upping the memory to 8Gb and installing a Crucual 256Gb SSD. I opted to upgrade and for a total spend of a little over £400, i now have a super fast machine that runs all my apps, VMWare included, super fast and very reliably. I'm not sure, unless you are encoding media or something, that an i7 on a macbook pro is worth the spend right now, especially with an SSD, you're looking at a 3k laptop - better off upgrading what you have and buying an iMac for all the heavy lifting....
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yikes. thankfully no. the unit has had a serious hammering with the latest version of sims courtesy of dd. it makes a fair bit of noise but works fine. no freezing encountered. i haven't really monitored the cpu usage - i'll check it out tonight. it makes sense to run some stress checks.Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostComment
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Just using Parallels 6, doing quite well. Working fine for me, just in the middle of creating a MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 VM!Originally posted by SimonMac View PostPoliticians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!Comment
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MBP - Max ram - confirmed to be 16GB
Hi,
for those who may wish to look at future proofing any new purchase from Apple - the new MBP are confirmed as supporting upto 16GB of Ram.
OWC in the US are selling kits - but @ $1600 approx for the 16GB - you might want to hold on till the price drops (though I'm sure some of you on a tasty rate this is a mere drop in the ocean !!!)
Link is as below to OWC
Upgrade Memory for Apple MacBook Pro to 8GB, 12GB, or 16GB DDR3 1333MHz SDRAM + SSD and Drive options up to 1.0TB - for all 13
I got the 15" 2011 MBP with 2.3Ghz/8GB Ram and the stock 128GB SSD. And I expect this to last as long as my last MBP (3 yrs and still gling strong) which was handed down to my daughter.
I'm swapping out the DVD Drive as I never use it - and putting in the optibay with a 500GB
Currently running a 3 node VCS cluster, on RedHat, on VMware Fusion, on OSX Snow Leopard
cheers,
seyreComment
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Also off that page "8GB Kit (4GB x 2) $112.99".Originally posted by seyre1972 View Post
The prices I was seeing last summer were nearly that for 2 x 2GB. Patience definitely pays if you can afford the wait.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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No problems experienced as yet.
What would you do to perform a stress test?Comment
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The old blackbook is finally being retired so I'm taking the plunge tomorrow:
15", 1GB graphics, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, high res antiglare + office + applecare
27" Screen
ipad2
few bits and bobs
That's myco's hardware budget for the next 5 years gone..."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Looking repalceing the iMac with a Macbook Pro once the first invoice on the new contract pays out.
Looking at the 15" HD glossy screen ( I like the gloss screen on the iMac ) but debating on whether to go for the SSD or a conventional hard drive. Absolute speed isnt really an issue, it's an office machine not a dev box, so will probably save the money and stick with the conventional version.
17" screen would be nice but I'll be running a second monitor of the back of it anyway so it's not worth the extra cash for the amount of time it will be used on it's own."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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Multiple VM's running multiple DB instances with some nice fat sql queries.Originally posted by realityhack View Post"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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