This is an interesting thread, thanks for starting it. There’s a company in my area that sells used macs, I recently upgraded my 2009 mac pro to a 2015 trashcan, and now have a 2015 15” MBP for my mobile photo needs and when I was given a broken 2016 13”, I traded it for a 2015 13”. Long story short, IMHO if you are buying used, 2015 is the sweet spot of price, performance and upgradeability. After that, things started getting soldered down.
In general, processor needs (and performance) have not increased nearly as much as RAM and drive requirements. Also, it seems that the big advantage of Apple silicon is with RAM on chip, bus speeds are that much higher. On top of that, I have not seen any indication that camera raw files are going to be getting any smaller, whether or not someone needs a 75MP raw file to post a 1920x1080 JPEG on facebook. In short, I agree with Ralf, prioritize RAM (and drive space) over processor speed. As to screen size, I briefly had a 13” MBP a few years back that I tried to use for processing. I returned it after my first photo trip, it was just too small to be useful, and that was before my eyesight took a sharp decline. As to whether to get an MBP or a mini, you can use a laptop as a desktop machine a lot easier than you can use a desktop machine on the road. Every so often I’ll do a photo gig on the road when I want to at least look at things, and likely do some processing, and it really helps to own at least one laptop that is able to handle that. FWIW, my work setup is a laptop with external keyboard and two desktop monitors, and in the office I treat the laptop like a desktop machine. My home photo setup is two 2560x1440 displays, one horizontal, one vertical. I think that my next setup is going to be a single, large (36”?) 3840x2160 (quad HD basically) display. If you pair that with an open laptop display that would be a great combination, but you don’t even need the second display unless you want to put all of your menus over on that. > On Mar 6, 2023, at 6:13 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good day all > > It looks like i;ll be getting some goven=rnmetn money soon and am thinking > of upgrading, but keeping, my 2010 iMac 21,5" desktop. It works well enough > but because i cant upgrade the OS to stay current and also can't upgrade > some programs i use and like, like PS and Lightroom, i'm considering > making a move to a macbook pro, either the 13 > " or the 14" M1 or M2 chip > > Just looking for comments good or bad from those that are using said > machine(s) for LR and PS. -Is the screen big enough, 13" or 14" > -is 8gig ram enough > -is M2 better over M1 chip > -screen colour ie do you need a spyder wset up > -battery life > -amount of ports and a sd card slot > -could my imac be used as an extended monitor? > -can i use my keyboard and magic mouse, i don't like track pads > > If i think of anything else i;; add it. > > We have a company not far that sells and services nothing but Macs so i'll > probably deal with them > > Dave > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
