I am leaving for college in late August. I will be doing the things most college students do with their computers, research and essays, and so on, I don't really game but I do do some graphics, I use photoshop, illustrator, and if I bought the computer I would have apple put final cut express on it. If I buy the upgraded macbook do you think it will run smooth with these programs?
I would not be running them all at once, it would be running photoshop and music at once, like that, not all programs at one time. Do I need the harddrive running at 7200 or just 5400?
And one more quick question, are the macbook screens the shiny smooth screens? thanks
Thanks for any and all help!
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The macbooks have shiny GLOSSY screen.
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It should be fine with what you want to do.
If you get into heavy editing with FC, 4gigs of ram and posibly a faster hdd would help for sure. Though the hdd would probly only really be helpful if its hd content.
And you have a choice between a matte screen, or glossy screen. -
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Alright so I should be fine with the 5400rpm? And so the macbook does come with glossy because there is no choice for the regular macbook. Thanks!!
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There will be some performance gains if you use a 7200RPM HDD, especially if larger files are processed.
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stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?
The faster HD will only help with accessing files. It will work with what you want to do but I recommend 4 gigs of ram to make sure it goes smoothly. And get the ram from newegg.com not apple.
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The MacBook has always been glossy only. I do wish there was a matte option though, it wouldn't hurt the consumer
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The processor in the MacBook is very powerful, it won't have any problems running Photoshop and such. You will probably want to upgrade to 2, 3 or 4 GB of RAM for a smoother experience. Do upgrade it yourself by purchasing from other stores and not directly from Apple, because Apple RAM is quite expensive while you can get the same RAM cheaper elsewhere.
The 5400 RPM hard drive is quite good already, but of course if you have the money and want better peformance, might as well get a 7200 RPM drive.
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Thanks guys, I am sorta a noob to upgrading stuff myself on computers, is it hard to upgrade the ram?
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not at all, its very easy and there are plenty of videos online. takes 5 minutes max.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1651
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OO .. thats very easy..
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