Good thoughts, Bob. Before order was actually placed, I phoned OWC to be sure how much RAM I can have in this new MBP 16GB. Either two 8GB sticks of their brand, or four, 4GB sticks by Samsung. The later is a bit less expensive. And for the HD, just don't know. I may just purchase a 750 GB 7200 rpm HD. SSD's I don't know what external HD's I would have to hold all the other data. With SSD, I assume I would only have actual working software and programs. This MBP that I am on, was ordered with the 200GB 7200 rpm. I eventually purchased from OWC, the 750GB 7200rpm HD and installed it. The HD taken out is now in a Mercury elite 800 FW enclosure, and used as a scratch disc for PS. Lots of options open for me. Some custom crafted PC's can have 32 GB RAM. What puzzled me was the sales person that was educating me said for PS, never need more than 16GB. Sure I good ask for the 32GB RAM, and he would not build the PC that way for me. End of that story. David B. Miller, Pharm. D. member Millers' Photography L.L.C. 3809 Alabama Street Bellingham, WA 98226 360 739 2826 digitalimaging@dnmillerphoto.com Sent from my MacBook Pro On Jun 14, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Bob Smith wrote:
On Jun 14, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Millers' Photography L.L.C. wrote:
When LION shows up on this new notebook, I wonder what will happen with the Epson drivers?
I use it on a number of late model wide format Epsons. It's mostly fine. The main glitch is that saved settings don't properly "stick" the roll paper option out of most programs. You can change it and print as you like but if you so much as look at the printer settings again you'll have to manually reset the roll options. Everything else in saved settings works as expected. I see this behavior out of any version of Photoshop after CS4. Every Apple app I've tried does the same thing. Everything prints correctly (all saved settings work) out of Lightroom 3 or 4; Illustrator CS5; and InDesign CS5.
As per your computer I would HIGHLY recommend replacing the hard drive with one of the SSDs from macsales.com. Huge performance boost. I've setup a couple of MacBook Pros with a 250GB SSD for system/apps/Lightroom Catalog/Photoshop Scratch. I replaced the DVD drive with a regular 1TB spinning hard drive for data storage. These are easy mods to do yourself. I hook the DVD up by USB on the rare times that I need it. The rest of the time I have a very compact, portable setup that can hold plenty of data without plugging in or lugging around any external devices.
Bob Smith