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For the sake of a £200ish quid I'd get the fast processor and the 512gb ssd. The way the os and software use virtual memory it's good to have a little in reserve. And don't worry about PS performance, look at raw crunching power for video encoding. If the right processor can save even 5 seconds per minute of footage rendered then it will pay for itself. External drives are a faff on location too. Where's the cable? Shit it doesn't connect... etc.
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Similar query to 'loin.
Have been faffing about picking up a couple of macbooks for new project and decided to hold fire on the 15" with dedicated gfx card until an update later this year, however I do have a need for a 13" in the interim.
Will primarily be used for very light video work (just HD, not 4k - saving that for the 15") and for dumping footage on shoots (from card reader, through mac, onto USB 3.0 7200rpm drives in the field - or to thunderbolt RAID if studio based). Will also be used in the office for admin and maybe simple logging of rushes. Will need to run Premiere CC, Media Encoder, Live Logger, Potatochop (nothing too heavy).
Want something vaguely (2 years) proof but don't really want to spend 1.7/2k on a 13" with no dedicated nvida card.
Looking at:
3.1 i7
16gb
512gb SSD
£1729
OR
2.9 i5
16gb
512gb SSD
£1559
OR
3.1 i7
16gb
256gb SSD
£1609
OR
2.7/9 i5
16gb
256gb SSD
£1439
Erring towards the 256gb SDD options (footage dumping will go straight through to back-up storage but would have a need for some chunky software installed and very occasionally we might do some editing of small projects on the drive locally) so the toss-up is between the two i5's (2.7 & 2.9) and the i7 (3.1).
Answers on a postcard. Or here. Whatevs.
THANKS