How big of a difference is mbp and imac?

[M-apple-T]

How much faster is the top imac (3.0GHz)to the base macbook pro (2.4GHz)?
Are the graphics card that big of a difference from 8600 256 to the 8800 512?
And is there anything besides screen size that the imac has over the macbook pro or vise versa?
thanks

EDIT: oh and both having 4 gigs of ram

 

[thechidz]

How much faster is the top imac (3.0GHz)to the base macbook pro (2.4GHz)?
Are the graphics card that big of a difference from 8600 256 to the 8800 512?
And is there anything besides screen size that the imac has over the macbook pro or vise versa?
thanks

for gaming and video encoding etc. it probably makes a pretty decent difference... for everyday stuff though prob not too much...

 

[xxjuicymintxx]

I use a 15" MBP w/ 4GB of RAM and a 256mb Graphics Card, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo.

I run VMware Fusion, Adobe CS3, Final Cut, Logic, Aperture, Microsoft Office and a few other programs too all with no troubles.

Seems to work pretty nice actually, and the portability is always nice.

 

[M-apple-T]

I use a 15" MBP w/ 4GB of RAM and a 256mb Graphics Card, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo.

I run VMware Fusion, Adobe CS3, Final Cut, Logic, Aperture, Microsoft Office and a few other programs too all with no troubles.

Seems to work pretty nice actually, and the portability is always nice.

Have you also tried to run some games as well?
thanks

 

[benlangdon]

dude how slow is aperture.
i just umm acquired it.

and i moved my 5 iphoto libraries into it and its not the sharpest utensil right now with i think a little over 2k of photos

maybe i need more ram.
im pretty sure it would help
as i run photoshop alongside of aperture alot


hey have you tried using bridge?

 

[xxjuicymintxx]

I haven't actually used bridge.

Aperture seems to work pretty good, though I haven't really used it much. The 4GB of RAM definitely makes things pretty smooth, I will say that much!

 

[benlangdon]

well soon when this semester ends i have to get a new hard drive or get ram.
my 160 has almost 10% left

its either
hitachi 7200 200gb hdd
or
4 gb ram

hard to choose i have a very large itunes library which i think i might just keep on my external.

 

[xxjuicymintxx]

I would definitely recommend the 4GB RAM. External Hard drives are getting cheaper, and yeah, so is RAM, but I think you'd definitely appreciate the 4GB RAM.

 

[benlangdon]

I would definitely recommend the 4GB RAM. External Hard drives are getting cheaper, and yeah, so is RAM, but I think you'd definitely appreciate the 4GB RAM.

ya i know about the external
500 gb for 100 bucks
i got

 

[xxjuicymintxx]

Is that a Firewire 800 external HD? if so, where can that be purchased? Thx.

 

[benlangdon]

esata and usb

esata>fw800

fw800 1385 (or something ) a or b

newegg
phantom drives

 

[Trip.Tucker]

dude how slow is aperture.
i just umm acquired it.

and i moved my 5 iphoto libraries into it and its not the sharpest utensil right now with i think a little over 2k of photos

maybe i need more ram.
im pretty sure it would help
as i run photoshop alongside of aperture alot


hey have you tried using bridge?

The hacked/cracked/pirated version runs slowly.

 

[benlangdon]

The hacked/cracked/pirated version runs slowly.

wait what???
what is this illegal act i have never heard of
tell me more

 

[xxjuicymintxx]

Why would the cracked/hacked/pirated version run slowly?

 

[benlangdon]

actually i was going to say something
but
here

what if it just has a serial code from ...
i mean there are a lot of serial code web sites

its not actually hacked as umm you can do on photoshop pretty easily