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Which Macbook pro?

fjhesse
Which of the current Macbook Pro's would be the most efficient for using Capture One for processing and which for tethered shooting? How much different is processing with a dual core processor vs. quad core, i.e., is the additional cost justified?
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  • NNN635158767546269381
    I am using a MacBook Pro 2012 (i7 / Not Retina) ant it is pretty fast using CaptureOne.

    The most important: SSD, at least 8Gb RAM. Quad Core should be double as fast as CaptureOne manage this well, 15' models have faster GPU.

    More money, more speed. The way it is.

    Unfortunately, Apple does not seem very comitted to provide futher "useful" notebook. They prefer trend/design over...

    Hoping CaptureOne could be ported to some Linux some days...

    Regards
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  • Neonsquare
    I'm using a MacBook Pro Retina 15" (2012) with i7, 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD. I'm quite satisfied with the performance, but at least local adjustment brushing lags quite a bit in Capture One Pro 8.1.1.
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  • George Brooks
    You will definitely want to go with an i7 processor, and quad core over dual core. More cores and more threads will dramatically speed up processing time. In my opinion, none of the current 13" MacBook Pros have sufficient specs for anything where processing time is important. The extra screen real estate of the 15" is also a huge plus.

    Now, your question was: which MBP is the best and most efficient. The simple answer is the maxed out 15" model. The main reason is the discreet graphics card, which is not an option on any of the lower spec models. The addition of the gpu allows C1 to take advantage of OpenCL, dramatically speeding up processing times. For that model, you're looking at a base price of $2500, and from there you can spend an extra $200 for a processor upgrade and/or $500 for a 1TB SSD, which is up to you. The $2499 model should be sufficient for most people, I went for the 2.8GHz upgrade and I don't regret it. I can't speak to the real world difference between the two as I've never used the 2.5GHz, but you could take a look at some geekbench results and see how they stack up.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Hi,

    I'm using a MBP 2010 17" i7 with 8GB SRAM (max otherwise I would have updated to 16GB). It does have a dedicated Graphic card, but no OpenCL AFAIK. I do have an SSD with the catalog and pictures are on a 2nd 7200rpm "data"disk in the location of the DVD player.
    Normal editing works fine, browsing and loading images is ok. Maybe not as fast as Aperture, but a lot faster then LR5.
    Adjustments work fine and seem to work instantaneous. Rotating an image in the Crop mode is BTW slow. Aperture is very reactive there, whilst Capture One is not. It's lagging and a bit tedious to use rotating for correcting a horizon.
    Local adjustments seem to work ok, but there might be a slight lagging while drawing the masks and C1 showing the red transparant overlay.

    All in all, coming from Aperture I'm looking forward to using C1pro and hoping for improvements in DAM (flexible metadata display, more integral use of catalogs, etc) in next versions.
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