Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Design Software (Adobe Creative Suite 3)

N

NilVeres

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 28, 2008
10
0
Just need a concrete answer on this.
Does anybody here uses iMac to work with Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator and InDesign?

If so what is your :apple:iMac's specifications and how well does it perform.
I've ordered a 20" iMac (2.0GHZ Intel) and am going to upgrade the RAM to 4GB.

Think I'll have trouble with CS3's performance?
On a Windows PC they should run around a medium-high performance with similar specs, and since Mac is told to run better I'd expect them to run nicely.
 
CanadaRAM said:
Only the highest-demanding professional production use would require a MacPro machine.
Click to expand...

Do you have any examples of these?

In the long run I may have to obtain licenses of Toon Boom (22k USD WHY D=!) and while the program works fine with basic animation shorts I've yet to work with HD environments and if I could use those iMac specs I could keep using it.

EDIT: Apart from that, what about 3D rendering software?
 
You are asking a subjective question.

All Macs will run all the software. With very high demand software or data, performance will be faster on the fastest machine.

How much faster very much depends on the exact software being run, the nature of the data, and the machine it is run on.

An iMac works fine with SD video and with 2-D graphics

If you are doing HD video, or Photoshop documents in the 100 MB and up range, or in a high volume high quality production environment, then get the MacPro.

I don't have any knowledge of Toon Boom.

EDIT: Apart from that, what about 3D rendering software?
Click to expand...

Unless you get specific, nobody can give you a specific answer.
 
I use the entire CS3 suite all with a 2.4GHz Al 24" iMac and 4GB of RAM without issue, but I don't do anything of great effort in any of them.

My friend does, however, and he bought a Mac Pro.
 
NilVeres said:
Just need a concrete answer on this.
Does anybody here uses iMac to work with Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator and InDesign?

If so what is your :apple:iMac's specifications and how well does it perform.
I've ordered a 20" iMac (2.0GHZ Intel) and am going to upgrade the RAM to 4GB.

Think I'll have trouble with CS3's performance?
On a Windows PC they should run around a medium-high performance with similar specs, and since Mac is told to run better I'd expect them to run nicely.
Click to expand...

It'll work beautifully - we have an iMac of exactly that spec being used to design/layout all of our promo literature plus an only slightly more powerful 24" iMac designing a 28 page bi-monthly glossy mag - both on CS3. No probs whatsoever.
 
NilVeres said:
Just need a concrete answer on this.
Does anybody here uses iMac to work with Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator and InDesign?

If so what is your :apple:iMac's specifications and how well does it perform.
I've ordered a 20" iMac (2.0GHZ Intel) and am going to upgrade the RAM to 4GB.

Think I'll have trouble with CS3's performance?
On a Windows PC they should run around a medium-high performance with similar specs, and since Mac is told to run better I'd expect them to run nicely.
Click to expand...

I run CS3 Design Premium on my 24" iMac (2.4GHz, 2GB RAM) and it really flies. Since I have a day job as a designer (see Mac Pro below), I only use my iMac at home for freelance gigs (as well as email, internet, etc.), but when I do need to run multiple CS3 apps at once, I've never had a problem at all. At some point I'll up the RAM to 4GB, to get a little extra speed, but right now I just don't use it all the time for design, so what I have works great.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back