Hi Jeff, I just got my MacBook Pro with 2 Gb memory and 160 Gb hard-drive yesterday. It's been working well with Chimera volume display, surface and solid. Performance is roughly a factor of two better than my 4 year old Dell Precision M50 with Quadro 4 GoGL 500 graphics (a very heavy machine, ~10lb). I just took a look at a 2k by 2k by 76 tomogram and performance was as expected. 2 Gb memory is adequate for my uses. I went for the 160 Gb harddrive instead of the 120 Gb since volume data and video can take some space. The 200 Gb option was a 4200 rpm drive which I suspect would be slower than the smaller 5200 rpm models so I avoided it. If you'd like to try my laptop before you order you are welcome to come over to my house in SF. Tom Jeff wrote:

Tom,

is the base 2 GB memory sufficient, and do you have any reservations regarding transfer speed from the harddrive?

I am going to place an order, wanted to check with you first about those 2 things before going ahead.

(I figure, if you are developing on it, this is not a bad idea.)

-Jeff