*** The official 2018 MacBook Pro thread (it has six cores and everything!) ***

MacRS4 said:
That's bonkers! I ordered my i9/32Gb on launch day - took just over a week to arrive which wasn't too shabby.

Ref the storage on an external - it's hardly terrible.
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Yeh I was quite surprised, it said estimated 23rd-28th August when I was speccing it but when I got through to the confirmation page it was available for delivery today!
 
When you use the internal storage should the laptop generate a fault the chances of getting the data off is zero.

It’s pretty prudent to keep things off laptop if they are important and make you money.
 
MacRS4 said:
Or just back it up somewhere else like a normal person?
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This.

On a laptop i always edit locally as its much faster then doing so in an ext hdd else whats the point in having a fast SSD then?

LR benefits a lot from having fast read and write speeds of a hdd and nothing beats internal.

i will create my catalogue locally and also put my images locally, edit them and then back it up on an external HDD.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
When you use the internal storage should the laptop generate a fault the chances of getting the data off is zero.

It’s pretty prudent to keep things off laptop if they are important and make you money.
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Yeah but you can set it up to use the internal while copying the important files to external... so you get the speed benefit while working and the data duplication in one.
 
The “problem” with that is I am limited to the size of the internal, and the cost of the internal SSD is disproportionate to its relative size. Getting 1TB for me and work off internal will be like a couple of weddings and I can have as many as 4 in the queue so end up using external anyway.


The way I have always done it is to Time Machine the internal SSD so this backs up the Catalogue, and then work off external HDD which is running in RAID. This way both are running in duplicate, and they are also kept separate.


This way I am not limited by the relatively small internal space and I am not spending £3,000 for the 4TB HDD. It seems a much elegant and flexible solution and I am not constantly moving projects in and out of the HDD as they are completed.


This laptop at the moment is going to be for personal holiday photos so I don’t need the internal space and if I am doing my main work on it, I would do the above.
 
Raymond Lin said:
The “problem” with that is I am limited to the size of the internal, and the cost of the internal SSD is disproportionate to its relative size. Getting 1TB for me and work off internal will be like a couple of weddings and I can have as many as 4 in the queue so end up using external anyway.


The way I have always done it is to Time Machine the internal SSD so this backs up the Catalogue, and then work off external HDD which is running in RAID. This way both are running in duplicate, and they are also kept separate.


This way I am not limited by the relatively small internal space and I am not spending £3,000 for the 4TB HDD. It seems a much elegant and flexible solution and I am not constantly moving projects in and out of the HDD as they are completed.


This laptop at the moment is going to be for personal holiday photos so I don’t need the internal space and if I am doing my main work on it, I would do the above.
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You only need one wedding catalogue to work off your internal hdd..Once it's done you can dump it in ext hdd and work on the next one in the internal hdd .

I can't imagine someone simultaneous working on more than one wedding at the same time?
 
jonneymendoza said:
You only need one wedding catalogue to work off your internal hdd..Once it's done you can dump it in ext hdd and work on the next one in the internal hdd .

I can't imagine someone simultaneous working on more than one wedding at the same time?
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That constant moving around is what I want to avoid.
 
the_chicco said:
Bugger. Just as I get the nod from the missus to abuse the credit card I see Lenovo are getting ready to release the P1.

Crumbs :rolleyes:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...ks-xeon-64gb-ecc-ram-4tb-ssd-into-0-7-inches/
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Do want. There have been rumours on the various ThinkPad sites about a 15" with central keyboard for some time (recent 15" Thinkpads have had a numpad which many don't like). This looks a great machine.

I'm seriously going to consider something like this.
 
the_chicco said:
Yup agreed, think it looks gorgeous personally and how the thing 'looks' is not even on my list. Its essentially Ying compared to MBP's Yang. The external casing is made from carbon fiber and magnesium alloy. The thumb mouse, well, no one uses as there is a perfectly good trackpad down the bottom. So moot point there. And if you are seriously buying a MBP for its looks then how much time exactly are you spending sitting in Starbucks sipping your Triple, Venti, Half Sweet, Non-Fat, Caramel Macchiato? Surely one of the unique (well not so much anyone) points of a MBP is the clamshell design coupled with aluminum unibody. So in other words built like a tank and can easily take a veritable pounding (as mine has). This looks like it will certainly be on par considering its carbon fiber / magnesium alloy.

The specs however blow the MBP out of the water. It's something I really need to consider seeing as the MBP demographic tend to be professionals / power users (and I'm probably in the upper range of needing a maxed out MBP). I could really use the additional grunt this would provide.

The real question for me however is whether I can sacrifice using MacOS for Windows as my mainstream. The last time I had a mainstream Windows laptop was XP. If you could only put MacOS on any hardware (without a la Hackintosh techniques) I would be in heaven.
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Windows 10 is on par with macOs in terms of fluid, speed, performance and reliability and ive used both extensively.

Check any none bias user who uses both and they will mostly say the same thing i did and will tell you to choose the OS based on specific programs that dont work on either.

You can always try out linux as well?

This is a amazing time in the laptop world where there is healthy competition
 
the_chicco said:
The real question for me however is whether I can sacrifice using MacOS for Windows as my mainstream. The last time I had a mainstream Windows laptop was XP. If you could only put MacOS on any hardware (without a la Hackintosh techniques) I would be in heaven.
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I switched to the Lenovo P51 last year as I needed more RAM than Apple were putting in the MBP at the time. Spec wise it’s a beast but I found some small but very annoying niggles/issues.

The biggest issue was Windows inability to handle high resolution. I had a 4K screen in the laptop and it looked terrible in Windows, not to mention it seemed sluggish when trying to resize apps. I would have non of these issues when connected to a lower resolution monitor. I tried Linux but in the end I decided I just missed macOS and switched back with the 2018 MBP and I couldn’t be happier.

There there is the updates, a number of times I had to roll back as it would break something or not apply correctly. It was very frustrating as I had them scheduled out of office hours so sometimes I’d have everything working on a Friday and then broken on Monday morning!

The trackpad - it’s not bad and I have noting negative to say about it but the Mac one is just better IMHO.

My wife is using the P51 and she loves it.

Windows is much improved and I think these days OS is a personal choice but I wouldn’t want to go back to Windows.
 
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jonneymendoza said:
Windows 10 is on par with macOs in terms of fluid, speed, performance and reliability and ive used both extensively.

Check any none bias user who uses both and they will mostly say the same thing i did and will tell you to choose the OS based on specific programs that dont work on either.

You can always try out linux as well?

This is a amazing time in the laptop world where there is healthy competition
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I don’t know how you can gloss over the issues in windows so easily. I’m happy to use whatever is best and purposefully went back to windows for a year... hated it... too many issues and annoying bugs.

Linux is still barely viable for daily use for all but the most basic tasks for the average user... or the power user who can customise everything and deal with the code.

Apple still kick out the best OS in the best package.
 
crinkleshoes said:
I don’t know how you can gloss over the issues in windows so easily. I’m happy to use whatever is best and purposefully went back to windows for a year... hated it... too many issues and annoying bugs.

Linux is still barely viable for daily use for all but the most basic tasks for the average user... or the power user who can customise everything and deal with the code.

Apple still kick out the best OS in the best package.
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I'm not glossing.im speaking from experience.

This is coming from me a person that's used Mac's for over 6 years and recently switched to windows for Pro work
 
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