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To MBP Retina today or wait. Reliablity issues?
Am looking to get a 15″ rMBP 16G Ram 512 SSD as found a good sale. 20% off. Heard some folks talk about reliability issues though, not buying the 1st of a new product, etc and thought I should ask here. This will be my everyday computer as I travel every day.
So, anyone have recommendations on if this is a stable computer to run CS6 on? Thanks ahead of time for any help!
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FWIW I’ve edited on the 15″ rMBP several times, each of those being :30/:60 TVC and all of them client (agency or director) supervised. I edit with PPRO exclusively (occasionally using AE and PS), using external thunderbolt drives and displays, and this computer was nothing short of brilliant. In fact, the rMBP with thunderbolt drives exceeds the performance of my office’s SAN array!
My setup when traveling is:
15″ retina MBP (16gb ram)
27″ Thunderbolt Display
HDMI out to client monitor (either in my editing suite or in my hotel room)
G-Tech 4TB thunderbolt drive
Wacom Intuous 5, Logic keyboard
Bose Companion 5 USB speakers (occasionally)
Starcase 27″ Cinema Display flight caseI can’t say enough good things about how this laptop has performed. I’m so impressed by it that I’ve bought two more for other editors in my shop who also edit on-location.
I hope this helps, best of luck with your decision.
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Oh wow, thank you for that! Unfortunately, I have to travel more lightly than you as the laptop has to go from home to work and back every day (not to mention to another city for weekends). My plan is get one of the new USB 3 enclosures and put in a 1TB SSD when Crucial finally releases theirs. I’ve already got monitors for home, work, and the weekend place.
Was just concerned that I heard about some glitches and burn in issues with the Retina, so was afraid to pull the trigger. But, you haven’t run into any of this, right?
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No glitches so far and only once did see any hint of burn-in and that was after a very long day (and, truthfully, it might’ve been my imagination). When I went to shut down the laptop I noticed the outline of my bin window on my rMBP’s screen (I run edit window on the external display and project/bin on my laptop’s display). I had a minor cardiac episode when I saw that (I’ve read many of the same reports as you) however, after waiting a few minutes (long enough to pour a good bourbon and take a deep breath), I rebooted and the burn-in that I thought I’d seen was gone. In fact, I’d never seen (or noticed it) before or after that.
Also, I’ve edited off of USB3 drives as well and it was a fine experience. I noticed “a little” slow down when doing multi-layer stuff but I wrote that off as “to be expected” and it didn’t keep me from doing what I needed to do in any way. Also, nesting settled that problem quite nicely if memory serves.
All-in-all it’s been a great experience.
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I use the 15″ MBP with retina display for on-site editing for golf highlights. I have to ingest around 5hrs of ProRes HD footage for 5 days and edit a 1 hr highlights show each day. I use it with Matrox MX02 and Promise R4 8TB RAID 5 and it is just super fast. I don’t even use a 2nd bin monitor, just the MBP’s screen. Yeah it is kinda small, but works for me. No reliability issues so far. I use FCP 7. Going to switch to FCP X soon. I also use PrPro a bit.
Kannan Raghavan
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Thank you very much for that. Sounds like you are putting it through its paces and it’s working for you. That’s great to hear.
So, you aren’t having any of the issues I’ve heard about with the ghosting/ image retention or the battery, graphics, and fan-related issues that also seem to crop up? Would love to get a new MBP to replace my 2009 17″, but don’t have time to deal with the horror stories I’ve read and when I did a search for “Macbook Pro burn-in”.
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Think you’d have buyers remorse over a reliable classic 15″ with the high res screen upgrade? I understand the attraction of the Retina, but it really sounds like you don’t want to deal with any problems. You could even swap in an HDD/SSD in the optical bay and have an internal boot drive and media drive. Your battery would take a hit, but it’s an option.
So long as you aren’t using the Ray Traced renderer in After Effects I think either system will have satisfying performance. For Premiere it’s only going to get better as Adobe looks to use more of the Open CL hooks in Mac OS 10.7 and 10.8.
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I’ve got the
15 inch Retina Pro
2.7GHz quad-core
16gb ram
500gb SSD HD
External terabyteIts been pretty stable
i’ve switched away from an PC laptopi’ve been using the entire adobe suite for months now with problems.
warren
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