Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

that's the spec, future proofing would be the reasoning.
I don't tend to resell my old equipment, as I tend to use it for a long time, my last macbook pro, before my current (freelance life) one, I brought in 2010, so the return on it isn't worth it, as it's pretty much obsolete by the time I get frustrated with how slow my machine is getting.
Back when you could upgrade ram/hdd yourself it was easier/cheaper to justify getting a base model and upgrading, now future proofing means being further out of pocket than I would rationally like.

i’ll be buying the maxout 64gb 2 tb version. my current MBP15 sometimes struggles sometimes whit large photoshop files(20gb multi layered 10kx15k pixels PSD’s) when you have that many adjustment layers/masks etc any brushing cloning you do then asks the graphics card to do all the adjustments on the pixels you have just pushed around and you start to get brush lag. had a few ‘cannot do that dave your scratch disks are full’ and a few times had to go make a cup of tea while it does something.

i still think 3-4k is cheap, you sell the outgoing laptop for 600-900 plus i get the vat off which means over 3 years of ownership it costs me a day and a half of work to pay for it.

from a business point of view it would still make sense if it was double the price, a hot rodded mac mini would make even more sense as i mostly am sat in front of an Eizo but they will not be out for a while yet.

there must be loads of users like me where any speed you gain actually makes you more money and more productive.