
Hard Drives: Dual Crucial M4 512GB SSDs in RAID 0 (striping/performance configuration)Ĭost: $2,360 (Online no taxes paid, price after upgrading to new M4 HDs and after selling the factory HDs) 15″ Apple MacBook Pro Retina Primary Hardware Specifications Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M w/ 3GB Dedicated Video Memory 17″ ASUS G75VW-DS73 Primary Hardware Specifications Performance in other applications will vary (especially in video intensive applications). Note that the following tests are real life comparisons designed simply to test the computational power of each machine within Lightroom 4. I think you will find the results quite interesting, so read on! Testing Limitations Not only to see which machine is quicker overall, but also to see how the slightly different setups in hardware impacted image editing speed. They are both top of the line machines, so we thought it would be a great opportunity to do some real life benchmark tests comparing their overall image editing performance within Lightroom 4. On the OSX side of things, we have the Apple MacBook Pro 15″ Retina. On the Windows side of things, we have the ASUS G75VW-DS73, a gaming laptop that we have turned into our primary image editing machines.
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We showed them all off within our previous article titled Our Favorite Laptops for Creative Professionals.

As many of you know, we recently announced that we just received the latest versions of the editing machines that we use within the studio.
