Yes i9 is better because it’s generally faster and has more processing cores (the i9 has 8 cores vs. the i7’s 6 cores), hence the i9’s higher price.

Plus, what Joe said. He obviously has experience with this, so even with the upgraded MBP you may need to use proxy or optimized media (i.e. ProRes) anyway.

And the extra hard drive space that… Read more

If to has to be a MacBook Pro, then get the 16″ model and max out the processor, RAM and GPU, as per this screen shot:

This configuration is currently $4,499 per Apple’s website. Note the 1TB internal SSD drive.

If you also bump up the internal SSD drive to 4TB, the price goes up to $5,499.

If you want even more internal drive space,… Read more

I’ve never used SuperDuper, but I own and use CCC and have never had any issues with it. It’s solid software with a lot of features and it does a great job.

You can download CCC as a fully functioning 30-day trial and decide if you like it or not.

How was the original image created, or where did it come from? A download from the web? A scan? What was its original file format before it was saved into other file formats? And how was it saved into other file formats (i.e. with Photoshop? some other program?)? Is the gray box showing up within the boundaries of image itself, or outside of/next… Read more

Disk images can be updated.

I don’t currently know the answer to the other question.

Further info: https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5

Disk image backups are generally complete whether you backup the entire volume or a specific folder (unless you tell the software to do differently). So backing up an entire boot volume to a disk image and then restoring that disk image to a volume will result in that volume becoming a bootable clone of the volume that was backed up to the disk… Read more

APFS is worth it for bootable clones because Apple’s requirement to use it for boot drives makes it worth it, by necessity.

Yes you can dedicate a portion of an external drive to a bootable clone. In fact you can have HFS+ and APFS volumes on one drive. I currently have that setup on one of my drives at home.

If you’re not convinced to do… Read more