Comment Re:Time to stop considering individual components. (Score 1) 85
"It's something some of us Apple fans have long figured out is that individual specs sometimes are completely meaningless."
No they are not.
If you are transcoding video then a fast video card if using OpenCL or Cuda will really speed things up.
If you are not then an I7 will really help.
I love OS/X and I really like my macbook pro but the new iMac, Mac Book Pros, and Mac Pro are not as flexible as I want or need.
SSDs are advancing too fast for me to not want the option of installing a new one. Apple charges too much for memory as well so yes I want to plug it in.
The issue btw is not that the new MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Pro lack those features. The issue is that none of the Apple line are really expandable.
BTW Thunderbolt does not count. It is too slow for serious CUDA or OpenCL work. It just can not match the speed of a 16x slot.
Right now I am running Xeon Ivy Bridge-e machine with 32 gigs of ram and two SSDs in a raid and it still takes a while to do some compiles.