Best Mac for GS

HapiappsHapiapps Member Posts: 373
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
I was wondering how much RAM and Hard Drive will run Xcode and GS the best. I am looking on craigslist and I have found a lot of 250 gb and a few 750 gb that have been upgraded. As for ram, most have 1-2 while others have either 4 or even 8. I am only interested in an iMac and Macbook Pro. If they each have the same ram and hd, which would be the better choice?

Thanks

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  • lildragnlildragn Member Posts: 105
    Honestly buying the newest low-end mac mini and maxing out the ram (8GB at $65 - Kingston/Cruical e.t.c) is the best bang for the buck... plus you get a 500GB HD/Lion OSX e.t.c. This is what I did and I'm over the moon with the speed of this lil box. I had an old Intel Duo Core iMac with Leopard 10.6.8, 2GB ram and had alot of problems with it, just wasn't worth the hassle $700 could solve.

    Just my 2 cents :)

    ~t
  • LeonardDeveloperLeonardDeveloper Member Posts: 4,630
    I disagree,
    If you really really want the best mac for gs get a mac pro,
    heres a link with the perfect specs:
    http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/cart
    or just a standard mac pro,
    or use a macbook pro like me :)
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  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    Any intel core2duo Mac with 4+gb of ram will work fine. You can get a used MacBook on eBay for 350-400

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  • POMPOM Member Posts: 2,599
    @Hapiapps ,
    if you are looking for best performance i suggest you get ssd , cause hdd is slow on big projects,
    for example , i have 2 macs , mac mini (hdd) and macbook pro (ssd)
    and opening my game Spin The Nut (very big project) on high end 2011 macbook pro takes about 10 seconds , in my mac mini it takes about 60 seconds ! very frustrating on regular basis .
    my suggestion will be to purchase your mac with 128GB ssd , then buy 8GB at $65 - Kingston/Cruical like @lildragn said , and you have a blast !
    If you need extra space , for storage , buy a 500-1000GB external USB drive .

    Cheers
    Roy.
  • LeonardDeveloperLeonardDeveloper Member Posts: 4,630
    P-O-M said:
    @Hapiapps ,
    if you are looking for best performance i suggest you get ssd , cause hdd is slow on big projects,
    for example , i have 2 macs , mac mini (hdd) and macbook pro (ssd)
    and opening my game Spin The Nut (very big project) on high end 2011 macbook pro takes about 10 seconds , in my mac mini it takes about 60 seconds !
    my suggestion will be to purchase your mac with 128GB ssd , then buy 8GB at $65 - Kingston/Cruical like @lildragn said , and you have a blast !
    If you need extra space , for storage , buy a 500-1000GB external USB drive .

    Cheers
    Roy.

    Its not all about the ssd,
    You really need a lot of ram too
    i suggest maybe however much you need sad and about 6-12gb ram
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  • POMPOM Member Posts: 2,599
    LeonardDeveloper said:
    Its not all about the ssd,
    You really need a lot of ram too
    i suggest maybe however much you need ssd and about 6-12gb ram

    Hmmm... yes it is all about SSD

    Im saying this cause iv'e been testing GS on macs with ssd and with hdd ,
    and macs with 4 ram and with 8 ram .
    The biggest change was from ssd , not only about GS , but for the overall process of making games , photoshop , illustrator , iMovie , and on and on , if you use only 2 heavy programs at the same time 4 ram will be enough (although i suggest 8 ram) but ssd will make the big difference .

    Roy.
  • David_GryphonsRealmDavid_GryphonsRealm Member Posts: 459
    Hey guys what do u think if I bought a MacBook pro 13in with 4 GB of ram with 128 GB SSD ? I need a portable machine so I thought that would be good. What do u guys think ? Thx.
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    GS alone will quite happily run in 2GB of RAM, it really is very resource light.
  • LeonardDeveloperLeonardDeveloper Member Posts: 4,630
    @davidgryphonsrealm
    yes that would be good
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  • David_GryphonsRealmDavid_GryphonsRealm Member Posts: 459
    Cool. Thx guys. If anyone else has feedback, feel free to let me know !!
  • 3d103d10 Member Posts: 471
    4 gb ram is more then enough.
  • lildragnlildragn Member Posts: 105
    4GB is perfect but 8GB is better ;) And why not, it's cheap in comparison to everything else :)

    ~t
  • svnsvn Member Posts: 445
    I got a MacBook Pro for the sole purpose of using GS. Also, I bought it because this thing really drained my electronic finances, and I hope that upgrading solo parts like RAM and hard drives when needed will keep it relatively useful for the next half-decade at LEAST.
  • calvin9403calvin9403 Member Posts: 3,186
    GS is not a big sofrware like maya or photoshop

    I think 8G and 16 won't matter, and for the SSD, I have not use it b4, but I think it will help(but thise things are expensive!)
  • dmilinovichiiidmilinovichiii Member Posts: 620
    If all you plan to do is GS, get a mac mini. If you want to do gaming and run very processor intensive programs, get a macbook pro.
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