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there must be loads of users like me where any speed you gain actually makes you more money and more productive.
This. Anyone complaining about the price is someone who just uses it to watch Netflix and browse FB etc.
As a business tool for creative professionals, where render time is paid time, it's a no brainer.
Soul-
few weeks ago i shot some 250 frame time lapse animations and it took 50min to process out the frames as tiffs in capture one and about hour of spotting/adjusting in C1 with micro pauses in updating the 100% view as i moved round each frame. Shot/processed/layered into 250 layers timeline animation as a PSD which was about the limit the machine could handle.
i would imagine a brand new MBP would enable me to shoot/process/edit 3 not 2 in a day.and before you ask, yes it probably should have been done in premiere or after effects but i don’t use them and this works for me.
Mr_Smyth
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.