My poor 15-inch Macbook Pro is over three years old now. It’s choking and sputtering from the overwhelming workload I’m subjecting it to, especially from the increase in video stuff.
So…my friend Eric Cheng is helping me to configure a new souped-up 15-inch, 2.8GHz Macbook Pro with 8GB of RAM, a 160GB SSD start up drive, and a 500GB spinning drive for storage. In fact, he’s setting it up right now, and sent me this preview of the blazing-fast start-up time.
I’m picking up the new laptop when I hook up with Eric later next week to head out to sea again. Woohoo!
Yes, it’s sad. I get emotional about stuff like this.
Wow, that’s quite the machine. Lucky you.
Hi Tony,
About Time!!!! Have fun and good luck with the new one. Hope Eric is installing Snow Leopard. Re. Aperture v. Lightroom no more comments from my side since everybody know better anyway.Use Lightroom if you feel it is better for you. Everybody has his or hers own preference anyway.Have fun and hope all works out!
Cheers GD
where they hell are you two going this time?!?
Congrats on your new toy… oops I mean work machine
I want to point out that it isn’t the slow Apple SSD that we put in. It’s the fast Intel one.
[...] Photographer Tony Wu is excited by the new 15″ MacBook Pro I’ve put together for him. It features a 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo processor w/6MB shared L2 cache, 8GB RAM and dual internal hard disks: a 160GB Intel X25-M SSD G2 and the stock 500GB drive it shipped with. I purchased a third-party SSD because the SSD Apple ships is embarrassingly slow. [...]