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We have two MacBook Pro's. One of them is an 15" Aluminum, late 2008 model with a C2D 2.54 Ghz processor and I upgraded the RAM to 4 gigs of DDR2. The other one is a 13" 2.26 GHz C2D with only 2 gigs of RAM, but it's DDR3.
The main thing I do with my 13" is process photos in Lightroom and sometimes PS4. This new 13" was supposed to be for my wife when we bought it, but somehow, I managed to commandeer it, and gave her my 15". Originally I thought this was fine, because I was hooking up the MBP to my Samsung monitor and did processing that way. But I haven't used the monitor in a long while, due to it really making my eyes burn for some reason. That never happened back home in the States, but here in EU for some reason, I can't stay on the monitor for more than an hour without my eyes and head burning.. crazy.
So my question is, what would you do ? I've been thinking about taking the 15" back because of the bigger screen and more accurate color renditions, but what I'm wondering about is this:
It seemed that my 15" was faster with Lightroom and CS4. The 13" isn't horrible,l but I do notice a difference. If I upgrade the RAM on the 13" to 4 gigs, will it make that much of a difference over the 15"'s faster processor ? I was thinking maybe, or maybe not. I don't usually run other apps when I'm processing photos in LR, so would it really matter ?
I'm sure my wife wouldn't mind having the smaller, shiny MBP, but I just want to make sure I'm not sqrewing myself in the process. What's the general consensus on this ?
Doug
The main thing I do with my 13" is process photos in Lightroom and sometimes PS4. This new 13" was supposed to be for my wife when we bought it, but somehow, I managed to commandeer it, and gave her my 15". Originally I thought this was fine, because I was hooking up the MBP to my Samsung monitor and did processing that way. But I haven't used the monitor in a long while, due to it really making my eyes burn for some reason. That never happened back home in the States, but here in EU for some reason, I can't stay on the monitor for more than an hour without my eyes and head burning.. crazy.
So my question is, what would you do ? I've been thinking about taking the 15" back because of the bigger screen and more accurate color renditions, but what I'm wondering about is this:
It seemed that my 15" was faster with Lightroom and CS4. The 13" isn't horrible,l but I do notice a difference. If I upgrade the RAM on the 13" to 4 gigs, will it make that much of a difference over the 15"'s faster processor ? I was thinking maybe, or maybe not. I don't usually run other apps when I'm processing photos in LR, so would it really matter ?
I'm sure my wife wouldn't mind having the smaller, shiny MBP, but I just want to make sure I'm not sqrewing myself in the process. What's the general consensus on this ?
Doug