You two should absolutely invest in the 1TB SSD option as well, I have essentially the machine you describe, but it is now already 14 months old. So the newer models will be maybe 30% more powerful in overall performance. The geek bench score of my Macpro 2010 (48GB RAM, dual hexa core) corresponds to my current laptop. J?rgen
...................... J?rgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street<x-apple-data-detectors://4>, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205<x-apple-data-detectors://5/0> Office: +1-410-614-4742<tel:%2B1-410-614-4742> Lab: +1-410-614-4894<tel:%2B1-410-614-4894> Fax: +1-410-955-2926<tel:%2B1-410-955-2926> http://lupo.jhsph.edu<http://lupo.jhsph.edu/> On Apr 2, 2015, at 09:33, Mark van Raaij <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Ivan, Being in the same boat, I have investigated a bit. It seems to be a straight trade-off between more processing power, more RAM and less partability Macbook, Macbook Air, 13" Macbook Pro, 15" Macbook Pro. For running Rosetta I think you will be thankful for the faster processors and extra RAM of the Pro...and only the 15" has quadcore. You can put 16 Gb RAM in the 13" Pro but it has only dual-core. The 15" is quite a bit bigger to lug around...nevertheless I'll probably go for that one. I don't know if there are any updates to the Macbook forthcoming, but I have to wait a bit anyway for financial reasons. Mark J van Raaij CNB-CSIC www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij<http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij> On 2 Apr 2015 15:03, xaravich ivan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello everyone, I am planing to buy a new Mac laptop (price no bar) which will let me run all xtallographic (CCP4 and Phenix) and reasonable Rosetta Molecular Modelling (1000 to 10000 decoys) softwares smoothly. What in your opinion is the best configuration. (RAM, memory, number and speed of processors, graphics card etc.) Also I am buying a Mac display separately so that I have a big screen for easy visualization of models, COOT etc. I know that powerful Mac desktops can make life much easier but here I am specifically interested in Mac laptops only. As always thanks in advance and I will post all the suggestions anonymously for others with same query. ivan
