Re: Update on mac research

2016-09-23 Thread christopher hallsworth 
Oh wow thank you. See I never used SSD before so have no idea of performance.
> On 23 Sep 2016, at 01:40, Scott Granados  wrote:
> 
> Chris, sounds like a fine choice.  If the user is upgrading from a 500 GB HD 
> to a 512 SSD she’ll be blown away.  That in itself is such a  major upgrade.  
> You’re talking 30 to 45 times faster just on disk access alone.  Sounds like 
> you did good my man.:)
> 
>> On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:09 PM, christopher hallsworth 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> I did, and no refurbished macs so far. Cheers for the idea though and will 
>> keep looking.
>>> On 22 Sep 2016, at 21:04, Sarai Bucciarelli  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> check out the apple refurbished store.
 On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:48 PM, matthew dyer  
 wrote:
 
 Chris,
 
 That sounds good.  I say you should go with what you can afford.  I have 
 an iMac 21 inch with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB HD.  I do how ever wish I had 
 an SSD as It would be nice to work with, but for my needs things work 
 well.  I am going to be working on getting a clean install of Searria this 
 weekend and as of rite now I have already moved everything I want to keep 
 to my dropbox and  now am waiting for dropbox to finish uploading 
 everything, but will be doing this this weekend.  Will report how it goes. 
  I did managed to make a bootable usb drive so will see what happens.
 
 Matthew
 
 
> On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Christopher Hallsworth 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Just an update on my mac research for Hannah’s Christmas present.
> 
> She has chosen the 13 inch Macbook Pro with retina display, customized 
> with 512 GB of PCIE-based flash storage, base RAM of 8 GB and base 
> processor of 2.9 GHZ with turbo boost up to 3.2 GHZ, something like that 
> anyway. That is providing a newer mac doesn’t come before then.
> 
> Think she will be happy with these specs, as she has no intentions of 
> editing video for example, hence the base RAM configuration, and the 
> customized storage is slightly more than her external 500 GB HDD. 
> Thoughts?
> 
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Re: Update on mac research

2016-09-22 Thread Scott Granados 
Chris, sounds like a fine choice.  If the user is upgrading from a 500 GB HD to 
a 512 SSD she’ll be blown away.  That in itself is such a  major upgrade.  
You’re talking 30 to 45 times faster just on disk access alone.  Sounds like 
you did good my man.:)

> On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:09 PM, christopher hallsworth  
> wrote:
> 
> I did, and no refurbished macs so far. Cheers for the idea though and will 
> keep looking.
>> On 22 Sep 2016, at 21:04, Sarai Bucciarelli  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> check out the apple refurbished store.
>>> On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:48 PM, matthew dyer  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Chris,
>>> 
>>> That sounds good.  I say you should go with what you can afford.  I have an 
>>> iMac 21 inch with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB HD.  I do how ever wish I had an 
>>> SSD as It would be nice to work with, but for my needs things work well.  I 
>>> am going to be working on getting a clean install of Searria this weekend 
>>> and as of rite now I have already moved everything I want to keep to my 
>>> dropbox and  now am waiting for dropbox to finish uploading everything, but 
>>> will be doing this this weekend.  Will report how it goes.  I did managed 
>>> to make a bootable usb drive so will see what happens.
>>> 
>>> Matthew
>>> 
>>> 
 On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Christopher Hallsworth 
  wrote:
 
 Hello everyone.
 
 Just an update on my mac research for Hannah’s Christmas present.
 
 She has chosen the 13 inch Macbook Pro with retina display, customized 
 with 512 GB of PCIE-based flash storage, base RAM of 8 GB and base 
 processor of 2.9 GHZ with turbo boost up to 3.2 GHZ, something like that 
 anyway. That is providing a newer mac doesn’t come before then.
 
 Think she will be happy with these specs, as she has no intentions of 
 editing video for example, hence the base RAM configuration, and the 
 customized storage is slightly more than her external 500 GB HDD. Thoughts?
 
 
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Re: Update on mac research

2016-09-22 Thread christopher hallsworth 
I did, and no refurbished macs so far. Cheers for the idea though and will keep 
looking.
> On 22 Sep 2016, at 21:04, Sarai Bucciarelli  
> wrote:
> 
> check out the apple refurbished store.
>> On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:48 PM, matthew dyer  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Chris,
>> 
>> That sounds good.  I say you should go with what you can afford.  I have an 
>> iMac 21 inch with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB HD.  I do how ever wish I had an 
>> SSD as It would be nice to work with, but for my needs things work well.  I 
>> am going to be working on getting a clean install of Searria this weekend 
>> and as of rite now I have already moved everything I want to keep to my 
>> dropbox and  now am waiting for dropbox to finish uploading everything, but 
>> will be doing this this weekend.  Will report how it goes.  I did managed to 
>> make a bootable usb drive so will see what happens.
>> 
>> Matthew
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Christopher Hallsworth 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone.
>>> 
>>> Just an update on my mac research for Hannah’s Christmas present.
>>> 
>>> She has chosen the 13 inch Macbook Pro with retina display, customized with 
>>> 512 GB of PCIE-based flash storage, base RAM of 8 GB and base processor of 
>>> 2.9 GHZ with turbo boost up to 3.2 GHZ, something like that anyway. That is 
>>> providing a newer mac doesn’t come before then.
>>> 
>>> Think she will be happy with these specs, as she has no intentions of 
>>> editing video for example, hence the base RAM configuration, and the 
>>> customized storage is slightly more than her external 500 GB HDD. Thoughts?
>>> 
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Re: Update on mac research

2016-09-22 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli 
check out the apple refurbished store.
> On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:48 PM, matthew dyer  
> wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
> That sounds good.  I say you should go with what you can afford.  I have an 
> iMac 21 inch with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB HD.  I do how ever wish I had an SSD 
> as It would be nice to work with, but for my needs things work well.  I am 
> going to be working on getting a clean install of Searria this weekend and as 
> of rite now I have already moved everything I want to keep to my dropbox and  
> now am waiting for dropbox to finish uploading everything, but will be doing 
> this this weekend.  Will report how it goes.  I did managed to make a 
> bootable usb drive so will see what happens.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
>> On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Christopher Hallsworth 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone.
>> 
>> Just an update on my mac research for Hannah’s Christmas present.
>> 
>> She has chosen the 13 inch Macbook Pro with retina display, customized with 
>> 512 GB of PCIE-based flash storage, base RAM of 8 GB and base processor of 
>> 2.9 GHZ with turbo boost up to 3.2 GHZ, something like that anyway. That is 
>> providing a newer mac doesn’t come before then.
>> 
>> Think she will be happy with these specs, as she has no intentions of 
>> editing video for example, hence the base RAM configuration, and the 
>> customized storage is slightly more than her external 500 GB HDD. Thoughts?
>> 
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Re: Update on mac research

2016-09-22 Thread matthew dyer 
Chris,

That sounds good.  I say you should go with what you can afford.  I have an 
iMac 21 inch with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB HD.  I do how ever wish I had an SSD 
as It would be nice to work with, but for my needs things work well.  I am 
going to be working on getting a clean install of Searria this weekend and as 
of rite now I have already moved everything I want to keep to my dropbox and  
now am waiting for dropbox to finish uploading everything, but will be doing 
this this weekend.  Will report how it goes.  I did managed to make a bootable 
usb drive so will see what happens.

Matthew


> On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Christopher Hallsworth  
> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Just an update on my mac research for Hannah’s Christmas present.
> 
> She has chosen the 13 inch Macbook Pro with retina display, customized with 
> 512 GB of PCIE-based flash storage, base RAM of 8 GB and base processor of 
> 2.9 GHZ with turbo boost up to 3.2 GHZ, something like that anyway. That is 
> providing a newer mac doesn’t come before then.
> 
> Think she will be happy with these specs, as she has no intentions of editing 
> video for example, hence the base RAM configuration, and the customized 
> storage is slightly more than her external 500 GB HDD. Thoughts?
> 
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