I have a MBP and it feels super sluggish compared to my AMD 8 core desktop. Certain tasks just use more CPU. Though the bigger difference is likely related to RAM, I've got 16GB on my desktop machine. This allows a lot more programs to be kept out of swap, and a lot more of the disk to reside in the cache. This just makes everything faster.
For $3000 you can put together an insane amount of RAM and the fastest SSDs to get wonderful performance. Combine that with a 8 or 16 core chip and even parallel compilation (if needed) speeds up greatly.
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I have a MBP and it feels super sluggish compared to my AMD 8 core desktop. Certain tasks just use more CPU. Though the bigger difference is likely related to RAM, I've got 16GB on my desktop machine. This allows a lot more programs to be kept out of swap, and a lot more of the disk to reside in the cache. This just makes everything faster.
For $3000 you can put together an insane amount of RAM and the fastest SSDs to get wonderful performance. Combine that with a 8 or 16 core chip and even parallel compilation (if needed) speeds up greatly.