I dropped the money a few days ago on a Refurbished MacBook Pro with the following specs:
2.6Ghz Quad-Core Core i7
15" Retina-Class Display
16GB DDR3 RAM
512GB Solid-State drive
The cost? $2,400 with tax (ouch!) but I have been looking at one of these for 6 months and wanted to make sure I had enough spare money after buying.
I now have made significant advanced in my life recently. I move into my new (first time renter) 2-bedroom apartment in Omaha, NE which is now closer to work than where I used to live. I move in on the 25th of this month (October) and I have been working hard at google every day for almost 8 weeks now, with lots of room to move up soon to full time status (I am contractor. Conversions usually happen around 4 months in and it looks like I am on track for that.)
So now that I am doing more photography, plus paid sessions, plus doing video for weddings, etc... I decided it might be worth it to plunge the money into a machine that will perform well with my equipment (probably sometime next year I will be dropping about $1000 on a new canon camera body as an upgrade to my T3. Probably a T5)
Let you know more of how it works out. Looking forward to it. I plan on keeping my hackintosh as well as my Asus for adobe premiere. The Hackintosh mainly so I can do faster work.
I will be selling my MacBook (Mid-2009 White non-unibody with nVidia 9400m Graphics and DDR2 RAM) to recover some costs, plus a Lenovo B510 which i refurbished.
2.6Ghz Quad-Core Core i7
15" Retina-Class Display
16GB DDR3 RAM
512GB Solid-State drive
The cost? $2,400 with tax (ouch!) but I have been looking at one of these for 6 months and wanted to make sure I had enough spare money after buying.
I now have made significant advanced in my life recently. I move into my new (first time renter) 2-bedroom apartment in Omaha, NE which is now closer to work than where I used to live. I move in on the 25th of this month (October) and I have been working hard at google every day for almost 8 weeks now, with lots of room to move up soon to full time status (I am contractor. Conversions usually happen around 4 months in and it looks like I am on track for that.)
So now that I am doing more photography, plus paid sessions, plus doing video for weddings, etc... I decided it might be worth it to plunge the money into a machine that will perform well with my equipment (probably sometime next year I will be dropping about $1000 on a new canon camera body as an upgrade to my T3. Probably a T5)
Let you know more of how it works out. Looking forward to it. I plan on keeping my hackintosh as well as my Asus for adobe premiere. The Hackintosh mainly so I can do faster work.
I will be selling my MacBook (Mid-2009 White non-unibody with nVidia 9400m Graphics and DDR2 RAM) to recover some costs, plus a Lenovo B510 which i refurbished.