Re:MacBook Pro is a lie
by amjaeger on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:36AM
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Robotics Engineer(ing student).
Also annoyed that only the most expensive pro has a real graphics card.
Things that need a lot of RAM:
Solidworks, Fusion360 (I can't even run it on 8bg with and an integrated gpu) And using Solidworks remotely is a bad joke.
Robot Path planning, motion planning
AI Assignments,
ROS + RVIZ + Gazebo + actual robot software
Anything written in python
[EDIT almost forgot] Matlab, VMs
Playing music or having a web browser open while any of the above things are running...
16bg would probably be fine for 2 years. But >$2000 is a lot to pay for only 2 years of use. People seem to think that just because its no longer current_year-1 that their desktop app can use previous_version's_RAM+0.5gb
There are enough people with enough reasons for having only a laptop. The dell precision m5510 is around same price as mbp (depending on setup) and yet it comes with a real graphics card, and the option for 32 gb of RAM.
Things that need a lot of RAM:
Solidworks, Fusion360 (I can't even run it on 8bg with and an integrated gpu) And using Solidworks remotely is a bad joke.
Robot Path planning, motion planning
AI Assignments,
ROS + RVIZ + Gazebo + actual robot software
Anything written in python
[EDIT almost forgot] Matlab, VMs
Playing music or having a web browser open while any of the above things are running...
16bg would probably be fine for 2 years. But >$2000 is a lot to pay for only 2 years of use. People seem to think that just because its no longer current_year-1 that their desktop app can use previous_version's_RAM+0.5gb
There are enough people with enough reasons for having only a laptop. The dell precision m5510 is around same price as mbp (depending on setup) and yet it comes with a real graphics card, and the option for 32 gb of RAM.