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> Isn't Apple using the latest & greatest Intel mobile CPUs? Surely Apple is not using latest Intel mobile CPUs, not the Kaby Lake. > Do your memory requireme

> Isn't Apple using the latest & greatest Intel mobile CPUs? Surely Apple is not using latest Intel mobile CPUs, not the Kaby Lake. > Do your memory requirements take disk IO speed into consideration? When you can read from disk at 3GB/sec I'm not sure the old assumptions about memory capacity hold true anymore. Why should I use SSD instead of RAM? I use SDD for the persistent storage. Why in general you should look for a trade-off when other laptops manufacturers do ship a decent laptops. > USB-C is great for this. You can connect all your accessories to a hub and only need to plugin one cable for power, external display, storage, input devices, etc. Yeh, a hub ... which you will have to take with you every time. > USB-C card readers cost about ... Yeh, a USB-C card reader ... which you will have to take with you every time.

jsz0 10y ago
> Surely Apple is not using latest Intel mobile CPUs, not the Kaby Lake. Ah I must have missed that in all the hysteria over the TouchBar and USB-C. That is valid criticism especially for the 13" model that would benefit from a faster integrated GPU. > Why should I use SSD instead of RAM? The benefit of faster disk IO you can shuffle things in and out of memory faster. In the case of a photographer dealing with lots of relatively small files faster disk IO can be more important than raw memory capacity. In other scenarios raw memory capacity is more important. In every scenario raw memory capacity and faster disk IO is great but there are tradeoffs to that also mainly weight, battery life and cost. > Why in general you should look for a trade-off when other laptops manufacturers do ship a decent laptops. There are many factors to consider and different people have different priorities. > Yeh, a hub ... which you will have to take with you every time. Along with all the accessories you're already lugging around to plug into it? Never really understood this argument.

jsz0 10y ago

> Surely Apple is not using latest Intel mobile CPUs, not the Kaby Lake. Ah I must have missed that in all the hysteria over the TouchBar and USB-C. That is valid criticism especially for the 13" model that would benefit from a faster integrated GPU. > Why should I use SSD instead of RAM? The benefit of faster disk IO you can shuffle things in and out of memory faster. In the case of a photographer dealing with lots of relatively small files faster disk IO can be more important than raw memory capacity. In other scenarios raw memory capacity is more important. In every scenario raw memory capacity and faster disk IO is great but there are tradeoffs to that also mainly weight, battery life and cost. > Why in general you should look for a trade-off when other laptops manufacturers do ship a decent laptops. There are many factors to consider and different people have different priorities. > Yeh, a hub ... which you will have to take with you every time. Along with all the accessories you're already lugging around to plug into it? Never really understood this argument.