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Can the Macbook run CS4 smoothly?
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I want to buy a new Macbook Aluminum, but I was wondering if I bumped it up to 4gb of RAM will it run smoothly on basic photoshop work?
Thx
Yes. It'll run as smooth as butter.
Make sure you don't order the RAM through apple. You can get a 4GB kit for under $50 all over online, and Apple will charge you $100s of dollars for the same thing.
Any idea if the AL 2.0 MB would run CS4 comprable to a 2.33 MBP 256MB X1600? I'm considering downgrading as I am taking my lappy to college everyday now, instead of it being a massive 17" desktop replacement.
How much do HD Size/Speed and RAM (2GB to 4GB) affect photoshop when working with documents that are maximum 8x10 300ppi? Would the bump from 2.0 to 2.4 be very noticible, or perhaps only a few seconds per action. *searches for benchmarks*
How much do HD Size/Speed and RAM (2GB to 4GB) affect photoshop when working with documents that are maximum 8x10 300ppi? Would the bump from 2.0 to 2.4 be very noticible, or perhaps only a few seconds per action. *searches for benchmarks*
I want to buy a new Macbook Aluminum, but I was wondering if I bumped it up to 4gb of RAM will it run smoothly on basic photoshop work?
Thx
honestly, it'll work fine with 2gb. just dont try to use parallels with 2gb, it wont be pretty. but yeah these things are pretty powerful, and cs4 has multi-touch which is awesome
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ha seriously listen to him tried doing photoshop, ichat, safari, itunes, parallels and ahhh imovie 08 and crashed.
ha seriously listen to him tried doing photoshop, ichat, safari, itunes, parallels and ahhh imovie 08 and crashed.
i run photoshop cs on my mine with no problems. i HAD cs4 and it was fine, but i like cs better. lol.
Surely this depends entirely on what you are doing?
If you are airbrushing your iPhone pictures to put on myspace I'm sure you will be fine. Giant canvases with tonnes of rendering may start to stress it a bit though!
If you are airbrushing your iPhone pictures to put on myspace I'm sure you will be fine. Giant canvases with tonnes of rendering may start to stress it a bit though!
this is a big problem for me to..as i do a lot of editing on Photoshop on CS4 and creating stuff on Illustrator..movies on Premiere and Aftrer Effects..
just to be safe im getting the 2.4 version and then buy 4 gigs of ram..
its just more "future proof" and i have a lottt of things going at the same time..
just to be safe im getting the 2.4 version and then buy 4 gigs of ram..
its just more "future proof" and i have a lottt of things going at the same time..
Yeah, mines only got 2gb's of memory and a 2.0ghz and i run PS and Illustrator at the same time very smoothly, even with large documents.
No you won't. 4GB kits cost either the same or more than what you pay Apple. And you get free installation by an Apple technician. Don't confuse DDR2 memory with DDR3. It's, the least to say, the same. DDR2 is way cheaper than DDR3 and DDR2 won't fit in the alu MB. The white MB uses the cheaper $50 4GB kits while the alu MB uses the $150+ 4GB kit.
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I want to buy a new Macbook Aluminum, but I was wondering if I bumped it up to 4gb of RAM will it run smoothly on basic photoshop work?
Thx
I just got a MacBook with 4 gigs of RAM and so far CS4 runs great. I have tried PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Premiere and they were all fine. Now, it's possible that the MacBook Pro with the dedicated video card is even better for CS4, but my new laptop with 4 gigs of RAM is a huge improvement over my old iBook G4 with 768, and I believe the guy in the store said that there was no longer as much of a difference in terms of video/graphic performance between the MacBook and MacBook Pro.
Wrong. Try to find a 4GB DDR3 (not PC-5300 DDR2) kit that fits the MB Alu for under $150. You won't. Usually, when Apple utilizes a *new* tech standard (like DDR3 over DDR2) the prices are pretty good since an Apple technician does this for you. But after some time, the prices drop (think HDD and the newer SSD). Apple doesn't bother making money from small trivial details like RAM memory; they focus on the bigger stuff like sales of notebooks or desktops.
Again that is wrong. The MBP has 2 (two) graphic cards, one integrated (the weaker 9400M), and the discrete (much more powerful 9600M GT). The MB only has one integrated, the 9400M. I know you can only use one card at a given time, but the 9600 card is much more powerful than the puny 9400. Don't be fooled. There is still a huge difference in the video/graphics performance.
That used to be true, but it's not that big of a difference anymore, because Apple has dramatically lowered their price for memory. For the MacBook, it's $150 to upgrade from 2 GB to 4 GB. Since the 2 GB version has 2 1 gb chips, not 1 2 gb chip, you have to buy all 4 gigs from a third party, not just an extra 2 gigs. And if you don't know how to do it yourself you have to pay to have 3rd party memory installed. Back when Apple charged $600 extra for a memory upgrade it might have been worth going the third party route, but for $150 I think it's worth getting it through Apple, especially since you'd have to pay for 4 gigs and not just 2 from a third party.
This may not be true of the new MacBooks, but a few years ago, everyone I talked to who had third party memory in an ibook or PowerBook had problems. We got my mom a PowerBook on ebay in 2004 that had 512 MB of Apple memory and 512 MB of 3rd party memory, and she was constantly having problems with that computer, some of which were eventually traced to the 3rd party memory. Once she took out the 3rd party memory the computer worked much better, even with only 512 MB of RAM.
So I would disagree with this poster and advise you to spend the $150 through Apple to upgrade from 2 gb to 4. You won't save that much buying the memory online, and you could run into problems.