Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

unless you have a need for lots of cores the 6-core 3.3 is a smart choice if 16gb of ram is enough. it all depends on what software you use and if it is ram/processor or graphics card dependent.

was thinking about an 8core but only one of my apps makes use of them but the time saving isn't really going to gain much in productivity.

will think about using a SSD for either a boot or scratch disk though (when i eventually get a new machine)

Yup! Did my homework on it, and since I'm using mostly apps that only use a few cores at most the hex was definitely the best choice, absolutely wipes the fucking floor with the rest of them in that respect, only one faster is the very top of the line hex, even the second to top hex is slower. If I were doing rendering or such it'd be a completely different matter, but I'm not. I was thinking of using an ssd to boot from or record onto then transfer to storage later on, still pricey though, might wait for them to drop a bit first.

It also can actually do a maximum of 24gb of ram (usual apple LIES), but I can barely afford 12 so that's not so much of an issue.

I now have two weeks of agonizing waiting.