Re: Update on mac research

2016-09-22 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: 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, christoph

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 s

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

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 t

Update on mac research

2016-09-22 Thread christopher hallsworth
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 an