Best Macbook Pro for Adobe Creative Suite?

I'm going to be purchasing a Macbook Pro - 15 in. base model. Was wondering if it would be worth it to upgrade the processor at all. I don't need the extra memory since I'll be mainly working off of an external hard drive. I have a 2010 iMac right now that runs an 3.2ghz i3 so it can get over wokred pretty easy, but still runs fairly smoothly. Just wondering what the general consensus was on specs for a Macbook Pro. Thank you.

Yes, 500 gb is okay. I realize that flash storage is expensive. I have used up most of my 1T flash up, but you will be okay with 500gb as long as your executables are on it. I also use adobe Create Cloud and Apple iCloud to manage and sync my projects (the ones that create money). I have 3T of extra external storage which I use for backups another 5T external raid 5 I use for database management. I keep the 1T splash based Mac Book Pro for travel. Remember that whatever you put on external memory will need to be backup on yet another drive or cloud to keep redundancy.
If you want to stay portable use MacBookPro Retina (Photography) with as much primary memory and storage that you can afford. Add a 1T external drive (small and light to carry with he Mac). 7200-rpm or faster. You will drop
If portability is not a problem, go iMac 27, 3T onboard, 32 GB primary memory with 2 g on the graphics card. You are going to drop 3K on either choice.
I would not be without Retina display. I also recommend you have a good APC to plug into when you are using battery power. Add $600-800 APC for the protection.

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