My personal thoughts are that 8gb of ram, and even the most basic of the processor options, will do fine. If you have the money, though, 16gb of ram will, when combined with the flash storage all Mac laptops now use, make that a very powerful machine. Xcode runs well on my MBA, which has only 4gb of ram, for what that's worth.
Storage will not affect performance. If you plan to store large raw audio files and other sound projects (you mentioned Logic) you'll want more storage. Again, just my opinion, but if I could upgrade the storage or ram, I'd do the storage first. I'd rather have 8gb of ram and 500gb of flash storage than twice the ram but half the storage. Of course there are external drives to supplement the internal drive, but it can get annoying to live off them. I'd prefer to use externals for backups, but keep primaries of all my files and projects stored internally if I could. On Jul 6, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Jessica D <jldai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would do option 2 or 3. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 6, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Venkatesh Potluri <venky...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi list. >> I am planning to buy a new macbook. I need your suggestion on >> upgrading the macbook. >> I would like to go for the 15-inch MacBook pro with retina display. >> I am wondering if upgrading to 512 GB flash storage would be necessary. >> I am also not sure if upgrading the memory(RAM) to 16GB would be necessary. >> If I enrol for apple care, Will I have the warranty valid in india? I >> am talking about a MacBook purchase that will not need an upgrade for >> 4 to 5 years. >> I am a VO user and use my MacBook for basic coding, iOs and android >> app development, occasionally playing light weight games. I will have >> to run software like matlab, logic and garageband at times. >> I am unable to decide between the following configurations. >> >> configuration1: >> * 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz >> * 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM >> * 256GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> * Intel Iris Pro Graphics >> * Apple care protection plan for macbook pro >> configuration 2: >> * 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz >> * 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM >> * 256GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> * Intel Iris Pro Graphics >> * apple care protection plan for macbook pro >> >> configuration 3: >> >> * 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz >> * 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM >> * 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> * Intel Iris Pro Graphics >> * NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB GDDR5 memory >> >> Please suggest. >> Thank you. >> Regards >> Venkatesh >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
