Hey guys! quick question! (Before anyone suggests building or buying a PC, I have looked into it for this but will be buying a mac over PC for gigging).
So my 2008 MBP (2.4ghz core2duo 8gb ram and dual ssds) is starting to slow down slightly on me and I really want to start playing with stems with my sets but dont want the audio lag and hiccups I am currently getting on my machine.
have a few options....
the baseline $1099 macbook (w superdrive) - hack that sucker open and put dual 1tb ssds in with <16 gb of ram... problem is the processor is from 2012 (dual core i7). Add in cost of aftermarket parts and were looking ~$2k
Maxed out 13 in MBP retina w dual core i7 ($2500) or the maxed out quad core i7 15 in mbp retina ($3200).
my main question is will i get a noticible performance boost from the more expensive MBP retinas with the newer i7 chips and would it be worth the money to go quad core over the dual core processor or would the older chip with more RAM be more beneficial to me as I am only running a single program on it while gigging.
Thanks for the input!
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