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liszt11
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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Location: U.S.A.
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 Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: Would a 13.3" macbook be sufficiant for photoshop? |
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My friend wants to start using photoshop more (guess he's trying to get out of the darkroom a little) and needs a notebook. We are trting to find out if one of the 13.3" macbooks would suffice. He would be using the notebook for school (master's candidate) and for semi or full professional work. Replies from anyone that has used ibook's, powerbook's, macbook pro's or macbook's for photo editing would be great! |
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aoisenshi05
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: Southern CA
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well, i use Photoshop CS2 on a 17" Powerbook (the model before MacBook) and am having no problems with it. I think the hardware of the powerbook matches the hardware of a macbook, but i think the only problem might be the screen size. might get a bit cramped... >.<
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helcyon
Joined: 02 Oct 2005
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PS Version: CS3
OS: OSX 10
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i dont know how true it is... but i heard that the macbook pro, although faster, only runs the native programs lightning fast. other programs run at the same speed as the powerbook. Also i heard that the adobe software is not compatable with the new version. They are going to wait till after the new cs comes out. I dont know how accurate that is, but i am also looking to get a notebook, since it is now a requirement for my major.
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aoisenshi05
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yeah, what the guy that just posted said is true. however im 90% sure that you can get (download?) an emulator that can run Photoshop.
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JenM
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Hey, I have the new Black macbook and I had CS2 installed and I was having major problems with the computer not starting back up after a shut down and I determined it was from CS2 because it started back up fine after deleting it. CS works fine though.
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pannpann
Joined: 16 Apr 2006
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Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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| helcyon wrote: | | [...] other programs run at the same speed as the powerbook. |
Slower, much slower.
Steve Jobs himself said that you will not be able to emulate photoshop on an Intel Mac with a speed that will satisfy an advanced user. The new Intel Macs all ship with Rosetta preinstalled. Rosetta emulates PPC apps, and for smaller apps it's OK, but for bigger - just forget it. Adobe will release CS3 in about one year (2007 Q2), and until then you have only one (good) option if you want to run Photoshop/other CS apps on your Intel Mac; run Bootcamp. Bootcamp lets you install Windows on your Mac, and it's an app directly from Apple, so it should work just fine.
On MacBook Pro vs. MacBook, you get a lot of power out of your macbook, and it's really not that expensive. However, its graphic card isn't something to get excited over. I say you should take to account how demanding tasks the laptop will be used for, and check out some tests on the web. Arstechnica now their stuff, and they are a reliable source. Here's a review on MacBook, but I'm sure you'll found more on the MacBook Pro if you do a search.
Good luck :)
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digitalphase
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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Whereas I don't have experience of a Macbook, I own an Intel iMac. I have CS2 installed and it works with absolutely no problems at all. The start up is a little slow maybe but for everything else it's very quick. My boyfriend has a Macbook Pro with CS2 installed and his works great too.
The Intel Macs are amazingly fast, much faster than the old iBooks and Powerbooks. Whereas universal programs run quicker obviously, programs made for the powerpc still run well with the help of the Mac's inbuilt Rosetta.
The problem your friend might have with the Macbook and CS2 would be that it doesn't have a separate graphics card so depending on the workload of CS2 he may get some problems. If he went for the MBP however, he wouldn't have any problems at all as they have a choice of 128/256MB graphics cards.
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