MACBOOK PRO DOCKING STATION EARLY 2008 UPGRADE
MACBOOK PRO DOCKING STATION EARLY 2008 PLUS

3.2 GHz, Radeon R9 M380, 16Gb, 512 SSD, plus Dell display (ВЈ490 but will look different onscreen to Apple 5K display - Dell 5k display is ВЈ1,760!) comes to about ВЈ2,500.ДЁ. 3.3GHz, Iris Pro, 16GB, 512 SSD + 4K monitor (smaller than existing setup, but HD) comes to ВЈ2,140.Д§. 3GHz i7 with 'Iris graphics' (unspecified) and 16GB, 512 SSD comes to ВЈ1,360.ДҐ. Assuming same price as current top of the line (i7 and Iris 6100) and minus ВЈ700 selling old one, call it ВЈ1000.Д¤. Again, no idea what actually doing serious design work on such a setup would be like.

MACBOOK PRO DOCKING STATION EARLY 2008 UPGRADE

Wait for the next Retina MacBook Pros and upgrade to top o the line and run that via docking station. It looks like the architecture imposes significant bottlenecks that wouldn't make that much of an increase, but without knowing what exactly about the latest Adobe/MS apps is slowing me down, I'm not sure if updating the GPU might make a difference. Call it ВЈ300 for docking station and external TB cases for hard drives.Дў. Not sure what the performance would be like long term, with much wimpier GPU (I presume). I suppose a docking station like the Henge might help, and would also make it easier to add the needed external storage. This would have advantages in terms of not having to sync work data, but would have to make everything run off the 2 TB ports. So my upgrade options would appear to be (in order of cost):ДЎ. I also have a 2014 13' Retina MacBook Pro (2.4Ghs i5, 256Gb SSD, 8GB RAM, Iris 1586) that I use for mobile working. The size and separate screens are perfect for the way I work, and I would want to change that significantly. I use two 24' Apple Cinema displays, and - though a bit dull compared to the modern ones - they work fine enough, too. Otherwise I have had no problems with it at all. I have already revved it up a bit by booting from a 512GB SSD and upping the GPU to an ATI Radeon HD 5770 (whoah!), but now I am starting to get beachballs when using the Adobe and MS apps (InDesign, Photoshop and Nik Plugins, Illustrator, and Word takes an age to open a doc).

I'm noticing that my 2008 Mac Pro (2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeons, 18GB RAM, El Capitan) is starting to show its age, especially with the latest Creative Cloud and Microsoft 2016 apps that I am forced to use at gunpoint.

Macbook pro docking station early 2008