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After Effects and the new 17″ MacBook Pro
Hello All,
I am looking for some advice in respect to the new MacBook Pro and how much memory to purchase. I work with a lot of stills and some 1080p footage… With FCP. I was looking to purchase a Mac Pro, but would like a little portability and want to wait until the new models are released.
My question is… do I need 8 gigs of RAM or is that total overkill? Will 4 gigs do the job? Give me as much info as you possibly can, for the upgrade is over $1000. At the same time, i don’t want to upgrade later and have wasted some cash.
Any help would be much appreciated… Thanks in advance!
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8 Replies
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Pardon my ignorance in respect to the Hardware… But, with the MBP would AE only be able to use 4 gigs of RAM?
I am thrown by the “2 Duo”… does it have two processors or four (with two on each chip)?
Thanks… Ryan
If you were buying this 17” MBP, would you opt for 8 gigs of RAM or 4 gigs?
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[Dave LaRonde] “Case in point: did you notice there’s no Firewire 400 port on this machine? Hope you don’t need to hook a DV or an HDV camera up to this thing. “
Sorry, Dave … there seems to be a cable for that. 🙂
… and I think this MacBook Pro ain’t the MacBook Air. Not so thin.
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[Ryan Sebastian] “the upgrade is over $1000”
Buy the laptop with the least amount of ram possible, then buy ram from one of these places and install yourself.
Crunch the numbers and you will see a huge savings, especially on maxing out the ram to 8gb.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3
(These guys will buy back the ram modules you no longer need once you get the larger replacement modules)https://www.crucial.com/mac/index.aspx
https://www.memoryamerica.com/
Just make sure you order the right kind!
Colin McQuillan
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Like the guy says, Max out the ram, that’s it!!
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Maxing out the RAM seems to be the consensus… and with aftermarket to save the cash. Is there any downside to the aftermarket RAM? I assume that RAM is RAM… as long as it is the correct kind.
Is one of the fore mentioned options better than the others?
Again, thanks for the help!
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i’ve seen on Tom’s Hardware, on the new macbook articles something related to instabilities with aftermarket ram. BUT, there is some memories with this problem, not all…it worth a read:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/apple-macbook-laptop,2130.html
and
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/apple-macbook-laptop,2132.html
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I hear ya, Dave! 🙂
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Crucial, as a source of RAM, comes highly recommended.
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