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I attached an external ssd on my old 2011 Mac mini and it performs just as faster than my 2015 MacBook Pro. This makes me realize that OS X still runs very fast
by jaequery 10y ago
I attached an external ssd on my old 2011 Mac mini and it performs just as faster than my 2015 MacBook Pro. This makes me realize that OS X still runs very fast even on older models and makes me wonder if this is the reason why apple isn't really keen on providing macs with faster cpus or even more ram. So to those of you who asks for more ram or CPU, unless you run very memory / CPU intensive apps, it's most likely you don't require them.
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- CSDude 10y agoI ageee, also CPUs do not really get much faster over years and I/O is more likely to matter to most applications. Only reason to upgrade just for processor would be for longer battery times, but it is already long enough for 2015mbp.
- jcoffland 10y ago> CPUs do not really get much faster over years This is a relatively new development. 15 years ago CPU speeds were increasing like mad.
- sqeaky 10y agoI must disagree. I know exactly how much RAM and CPU time my tasks take. On my Ubuntu machine a build can easily take 20gb of RAM and saturate the CPU for half an hour. If I want to test my software on windows, that means a VM taking another chunk of RAM. I have seen my system consume almost all of 64gb. I have seen the difference between each generation of i7 and my build times keep going down. For about 5 million LOCs of C/C++ the first takes about half an hour and the 6 gen takes about 3 minutes. For systems developers this makes the Mac Book Pro a poor choice. But other laptops are almost as good as Desktops until we start needing things like CUDA (or more than 8 cores).