Funny you should mention that SSD. I had a few of those 2012 Mac Book Pros. They were sluggish. But I just opened it up, put in an SSD (from other world computing [OWC]) and it was like a new machine. I couldn't believe how snappy it was.
So Ray, if you still have that old machine, put an SSD into it. For $500 you get a brand new fast computer. Good for another3 to 5 years. On Feb 5, 2014, at 2:05 AM, Jonathan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgot to cc: the list. > > Glad you found the right computer for you but just in case someone would like > to read the review of someone who went the other way I'll state my > experience. I received a new MacBook Pro at work and I had a 2012 model. > This new model is easily the best laptop I've ever owned. I don't really use > the retina display but you can scale the screen to 1920 x 1200 which is very > useful for me because I like to use Eclipse/WebStorm with two editors open. > The SSD is the big difference though - the time it takes to boot from sleep > and write files has dramatically decreased. But most importantly, for me, > it's no longer like having a furnace in your lap. It's very quiet and cool. > I believe it's a combination of the SSD and the processor but I can now run > Eclipse, WebStorm, Photoshop and VMWare in Unity mode without feeling the > computer slowly turning to a halt. In fact, I don't even notice a drop in > performance with those and about a dozen other lighter weight apps open. > > Anyway, that's my experience... > > MB Pro i7 2.7 16GB RAM with 500 GB SSD > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apple's MacBook strategy has finally done it. I have bought my first > non-Apple computer since 1989. I went to the Apple Store to replace my main > dev machine, a 2012-ish MacBook Pro, which worked great for me even if it did > seem fiendishly heavy. But I could not get myself to buy one of the new > models. > > Sorry I just do not care so much about the Retina display. I want computation > power and disk space. Apparently this is too much to ask of Apple. Smallish > hard disks and not really enough RAM and who the heck thinks soldering that > RAM to the board is a good idea? Really! And at the store I could get the > barely adequate RAM or the maybe-enough disk space, but not both. If I want > both, I have to order on-line. Wow. Never mind. > > So I got an Asus with twice as much hard disk space and similar CPU speeds > for less than half the price. I figured out enough about WIndows 8 to install > Ubuntu over it and it is good. I guess if Apple's strategy is to dumb down > the general-purpose computer so it can only be a phone or tablet, then they > are succeeding. > > It was relatively easy to get my MySQL databases moved over and to re-build > my eclipse environment. I will have to recheck the Project Wonder install > page. There are some details that may need to be fixed, but nothing that > stopped me. > > I think I am going to miss the two-finger drag on the Mac's trackpad, though. > And I seriously need to figure out how to left-click on the trackpad more > reliably. And hitting the grow box on the windows is a challenge, to say the > least. I see the "grow box" icon and then click and, oops, missed the window > again! O well. So far, this seems a small price to pay. And can Apple's DRM > mess up my music collection, as it has done twice? Nope. And I am so not > going to miss iTunes or the App Store.... > > Well, it was nice to see that installing and using WO and Wonder on non-Apple > hardware is just fairly easy and just works, as it should. Now, back to work. > > cheers - ray > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/jlmiller%40kahalawai.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/tedpet5%40yahoo.com > > This email sent to [email protected]
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