Hi all,
I’m trying to figure out what the solution is if I want to buy a new MBP. I’ve been a MBP user for nearly 8 years and gone through 2 models of them. I rarely keep them longer than 3 years because I use them so intensely. My laptop is on almost all day every day.
I really want to move to a stronger processor MBP because I just passed the 3 yr mark with this one. In short, I use my laptop for day to day business (email, web, etc) but then also for DJ’ing and producing music. This means I have a lot of data that I have always like to keep local.
My idea was to go with the new MBP with the 8gb of ram and 256Gb SSD, and then house my data on an external usb 3.0 enclosure even though I’ve always tried to avoid the external (one more thing to lose, break, etc). A friend made a great point, asking me exactly what I was moving laptops for…and I replied, to have a newer more dependable laptop, but also to see a good performance return over the current 2.4ghz duo core I have now. He told me the speed of accessing data over the 3.0 vs how I’m doing it now (750Gb 7200rpm drive) all local most likely wouldn’t impress me, if anything, might be a negative result from where I am now.
I can’t afford to match the 750gb drive that I currently have (nor do I think it’s even offered) so what are people doing?? I can’t be the only one in this position??
Thx
I’m trying to figure out what the solution is if I want to buy a new MBP. I’ve been a MBP user for nearly 8 years and gone through 2 models of them. I rarely keep them longer than 3 years because I use them so intensely. My laptop is on almost all day every day.
I really want to move to a stronger processor MBP because I just passed the 3 yr mark with this one. In short, I use my laptop for day to day business (email, web, etc) but then also for DJ’ing and producing music. This means I have a lot of data that I have always like to keep local.
My idea was to go with the new MBP with the 8gb of ram and 256Gb SSD, and then house my data on an external usb 3.0 enclosure even though I’ve always tried to avoid the external (one more thing to lose, break, etc). A friend made a great point, asking me exactly what I was moving laptops for…and I replied, to have a newer more dependable laptop, but also to see a good performance return over the current 2.4ghz duo core I have now. He told me the speed of accessing data over the 3.0 vs how I’m doing it now (750Gb 7200rpm drive) all local most likely wouldn’t impress me, if anything, might be a negative result from where I am now.
I can’t afford to match the 750gb drive that I currently have (nor do I think it’s even offered) so what are people doing?? I can’t be the only one in this position??
Thx
