So today my old MBP early 2011 is finally showing serious issues with the Radeon GPU (logic board replaced under warrantee a couple of years ago) and one RAM slot has died, leaving it 1 channel and 8GB. The hybrid SSD HD is fine still but it’s being a pain on restart with freaky graphics artifacts/corruptions and even displaying the image shifted so the corner starts in the centre of the screen.
I was hoping to wait until next refresh next year.. but this is looking like it will force my hand. It gets used a lot, in the past world of tanks but not since the ram channel died, however most of the time on the spare room desk.
The death spiral have meant that I don’t game now, nor do I do any gpu image processing development (Xcode). I also use virtualbox for Ubuntu running R, octave and python at the moment for a hackathon at work.
Old spec: MBP quad core i7 2.2GHz, 16GB 1333 DDR3, Radeon HD 6750M 1GB GDDR5 and a 1TB 5400 hybrid SSD. Battered and bruised case.
I’d ideally like to have 32GB to allow for a 16GB eGPU at a later date (system memory shadows the GPU still in this day and age).I can see there are only two options with 32GB - £3k for a MBP or 1.2K for a 6 core mini (plus £150 for 32GB memory kit) then add a eGPU later. However a voice in my head is just saying 3K is too expensive - especially as it’s cooling is pooched.
I have an dual core Mac mini 2009 still that works but is out of date from a OS X perspective (and slow).
Agghhh. Sounds like a mac mini...
I was hoping to wait until next refresh next year.. but this is looking like it will force my hand. It gets used a lot, in the past world of tanks but not since the ram channel died, however most of the time on the spare room desk.
The death spiral have meant that I don’t game now, nor do I do any gpu image processing development (Xcode). I also use virtualbox for Ubuntu running R, octave and python at the moment for a hackathon at work.
Old spec: MBP quad core i7 2.2GHz, 16GB 1333 DDR3, Radeon HD 6750M 1GB GDDR5 and a 1TB 5400 hybrid SSD. Battered and bruised case.
I’d ideally like to have 32GB to allow for a 16GB eGPU at a later date (system memory shadows the GPU still in this day and age).I can see there are only two options with 32GB - £3k for a MBP or 1.2K for a 6 core mini (plus £150 for 32GB memory kit) then add a eGPU later. However a voice in my head is just saying 3K is too expensive - especially as it’s cooling is pooched.
I have an dual core Mac mini 2009 still that works but is out of date from a OS X perspective (and slow).
Agghhh. Sounds like a mac mini...
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