Macbook Pro 2011 Advice. Reliability and 15in or 17in?

[tom thurs]

As for 3D work either should be fine (they're both the same apart from screen size), my old flatmate works for unity and he used to use a the older 17" and that was fine for running 3Ds max, he even made a game on it.

[richimgd]

Cheers for the responses.

I will probably wait until next month when Lion comes out. I think I might go with the 15in just to maximise the portability while not taking too much of a hit on productivity.