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- MacBook Pro 13", 2.26 GHz, 2GB, 160GB. iPod touch 2nd gen, 8GB, 27" Core i7, 8GB, 1TB iMac
OK - I have been thinking about the best way to go about upgrading my Macs.
I have a 2009 13" MacBook Pro, with 2GB Ram, 160GB HDD and the Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.66 GHz, so all standard spec.
I also have the 2010 27" iMac with 4GB Ram, Intel Core i7 processor and 1TB HDD.
The plan is to upgrade the MBP to 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SDD, and the iMac to 8GB Ram, and eventually 16GB Ram.
I have bought 4GB of RAM from Crucial, since it was only £35, and now have 2 options. I could either boost the RAM in the MBP to 4GB and move the spare 2GB RAM to the iMac, giving the iMac 6GB Ram opposed to 4, or I could double the RAM in the iMac to 8GB and leave the MBP for about 6 weeks until I buy the RAM and the SSD.
The iMac is the workhorse. I keep it at the office, and use Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign on it, a lot. The MBP is mainly used for coding, as I tend to do this in the evening, so often is running Komodo Edit, FileZilla and Firefox 4 (with Web Dev toolbar and Firebug).
So really - it comes down to this. Target in 6 weeks time - iMac has 8GB Ram, MBP has 8GB Ram and 256GB SSD. Right now I have 4GB of RAM, and in 6 weeks I'll get another 4GB of RAM and the SSD. Any suggestions on what to upgrade in what order? Or am I thinking into this too much.
I have a 2009 13" MacBook Pro, with 2GB Ram, 160GB HDD and the Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.66 GHz, so all standard spec.
I also have the 2010 27" iMac with 4GB Ram, Intel Core i7 processor and 1TB HDD.
The plan is to upgrade the MBP to 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SDD, and the iMac to 8GB Ram, and eventually 16GB Ram.
I have bought 4GB of RAM from Crucial, since it was only £35, and now have 2 options. I could either boost the RAM in the MBP to 4GB and move the spare 2GB RAM to the iMac, giving the iMac 6GB Ram opposed to 4, or I could double the RAM in the iMac to 8GB and leave the MBP for about 6 weeks until I buy the RAM and the SSD.
The iMac is the workhorse. I keep it at the office, and use Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign on it, a lot. The MBP is mainly used for coding, as I tend to do this in the evening, so often is running Komodo Edit, FileZilla and Firefox 4 (with Web Dev toolbar and Firebug).
So really - it comes down to this. Target in 6 weeks time - iMac has 8GB Ram, MBP has 8GB Ram and 256GB SSD. Right now I have 4GB of RAM, and in 6 weeks I'll get another 4GB of RAM and the SSD. Any suggestions on what to upgrade in what order? Or am I thinking into this too much.