Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I only have 8GB in my home set up.... never any probs...

My work macbook has 16GB memory and a 2.6 i5 processor. I had to push for the upgrades, but made my case with the fact that my work wants us to do more of our own video work and the fact Apple had soldered their memory in so it won't be upgradeable in the future.

Only noticeable benefit so far was a super quick video encoding I did last week, other than that I could've probably coped with the standard options for the machine. Not my money though :)

So it looks like I can get a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD for just over £300 or a 500GB Crucial SSD for just over £200... Thoughts?

I dont; but I help out the IT guy and in returns I get sweet upgrades ; ) As @roboto said .. not my money.

I'd go 500gb with creative cloud storage that you must have plus dropbox etc. Tbh 500 is a lot if you have decent internet; not sure about Australia ..

I don't have any cloud based storage, I probably should... Everything's Time Machined up on my external 2TB drive... I've been looking into getting some kind of NAS/array backup but haven't got around to it...

I'm kinda tempted to go for the extra 500GB if it's only a ton more...

If you are not into cloud then yes; SSD is going to make a huge difference compared to HDD doesent matter which SSD it is .. There are few Synology black friday deals; its the Apple of NAS. Or if you are minted Drobo; NAS essentially is cloud ..

I'd probably polly up for 1TB, mainly to ensure the computer have enough space for the future.

OK, think I'll pull the trigger on this bad boy then...

Yosemite is NOT great!

There are still little some finder bugs that have totally fucked over my workflow, and photoshop cs6 definitely isn't as stable as it was. Give it a month or two if you've already got Mavericks (which was great).

Reaaalllly? What kind of bugs?

I will hold off then, Mavericks is running fine tbh, I just prefer the aesthetic of Yosemite...

Just been into my local video games shop (bought Super Smash Bros, if you must know) and they had a 500GB Samsung SSD in stock for £169... Pretty good deal...

Hmmm...

I see no point in getting a 1tb ssd. 1tb won't fit everything so is as useful as a 256gb for me, I need external drives anyway. Get a 256gb and spend the money on either a fw800 external drive, or even better, a thunderbolt one

^ with kboy on that. No point using an ssd for storage right now unless you have money to burn and you're a film editor. And even then an external RAID for storage would more sense.

@chrisbmx116 , for me, the when you use the finder window full screen, after switching desktops a few times, the contents of the finder will jump upwards by a couple hundred pixels. You can't scroll them back down, and you have to come out of full screen, close the window and start again to reset it. PITA for me.

Also finder windows spawned within other software behave really weirdly. The one chrome makes gradually expands each time until it's too big to shrink again..

Photoshop is also slower at rendering large files. Bridge is also much slower. It's noticeable. It's crashed a couple times too.

I realise these are the developers problem but I kinda wish I'd waited until they'd sorted it.

Tbh, I was happier with Mavericks than I am with Yosemite. The only new feature I'm happy with is the phone integration for calls, pickup and Airdrop. I was excited about Maildrop but its a clusterfuck (eg: no progress indicator!?).

Pretty good call, I can set up cloned back-ups that way without spending any more cash...

256gb is pretty tiny.

yes, but as I'll need external hdd's anyway, why spend more

I think I'd be pretty happy with a 500GB SSD, I'm planning to keep the drive that's in there and stick it in the Superdrive slot or maybe even get a bigger drive to go in there and use that as a portable drive... Decisions, decisions...

But to get the benefits of ssd performance, you only need the files you're using at one time (OS, apps, and assets) to be stored on it. That's why even 128 can be enough if you use external or remote storage.

Werd. I made a fusion drive in my mini out of a 64GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. Best of both worlds bundled into one.

Or if it's an older MBP, ditch the optic drive

I have a Kingston SSD 128GB as OS drive, a WD Blue HDD 500GB as a Apps drive and a 1TB WD HDD Green as a data drive.

You don't want to keep writing/deleting to a SSD.

As in reformatting? How come?

What's the fix for Macbook Air not picking up wireless?

Thanks

You don't want to keep writing/deleting to a SSD.

For all but the most extreme home users it'll never be a problem. I have to worry about it in server environments but that's where the SSDs are being hammered constantly.

SSD technology, endurance, wear leveling, etc has moved on a long way since the first SSDs.