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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
13" MacBook Pro - SSD Drive or Intel Core i7?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dysfunction" data-source="post: 1275470" data-attributes="member: 51052"><p>If you're going to do virtualization, I'd go with the faster processor. Especially if you're going to be taxing the video while you're at it. While you will be hitting the HDD a bunch, you're going to be sharing the processor resources constantly (while open). Your performance improvement over a 500GB 7500rpm drive would really be initial boot and initial application launch. At least for the apps you've listed. </p><p></p><p>BTW, I'm at 126GB used with the following installed:</p><p></p><p>CS5 Design Standard, Lightroom, Office, iWork, and xCode.</p><p></p><p>I do have other things installed, but they're the smaller apps that just add up (silverlight, flip4mac, exif viewer etc). When I had vmWare installed there was another 20GB of virtual machine plus installation size (without a lot of heavy installed software on the XP instance). It's amazing how fast this stuff fills up, I remember when a 40GB drive was OUTRAGEOUSLY huge!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dysfunction, post: 1275470, member: 51052"] If you're going to do virtualization, I'd go with the faster processor. Especially if you're going to be taxing the video while you're at it. While you will be hitting the HDD a bunch, you're going to be sharing the processor resources constantly (while open). Your performance improvement over a 500GB 7500rpm drive would really be initial boot and initial application launch. At least for the apps you've listed. BTW, I'm at 126GB used with the following installed: CS5 Design Standard, Lightroom, Office, iWork, and xCode. I do have other things installed, but they're the smaller apps that just add up (silverlight, flip4mac, exif viewer etc). When I had vmWare installed there was another 20GB of virtual machine plus installation size (without a lot of heavy installed software on the XP instance). It's amazing how fast this stuff fills up, I remember when a 40GB drive was OUTRAGEOUSLY huge! [/QUOTE]
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