Review of the Ultimate Photographer's Laptop

Digital photographers require a powerful mobile platform for remote assignments and personal travel to download/backup digital images and to review/process those images when required.  For many photographers this has required either: 1) Using the same under powered laptop for remote assignments and as an in-house workstation, or 2) Purchasing and maintaining two separate machines, one for remote assignments and the other for in-house workstation.  Apple's new MacBook Pro offers a third option: A single computer that provides the best possible mobile platform for remote assignments and uncompromising performance as an in-house workstation.

The new MacBook Pro's are very powerful compared to prior laptops and desktops.  The inclusion of ThunderBolt into Mac laptops revolutionizes the laptop platform for photographers and other creative Audio/Visual professionals.  The storing, sorting and processing of digital photography demands a great deal from all aspects of a computer.  Aperture and Lightroom are notoriously slow on a system with any compromised component, such as the CPU, GPU, RAM and data storage.  Until the release of Thunderbolt, data storage speed and capacity has been the most significant obstacle to using a laptop as an in-house workstation.  With ThunderBolt all data storage issues have vanished as ThunderBolt out performs even SATA III's 6Gbps internal hard drive speeds.  Note that MacBook Pro's now support 16GB of RAM at present and up to 32GB when 16GB cards are available.  This mean that another significant barrier to using a laptop as a one computer solution has been removed.  So photographers and other Audio/Visual professionals finally have the ultimate one computer solution with the new MacBook Pros.