MacBook Pro 13inch CS3?

[KevinMaust]

Hello all, I am new to this forum and i was hoping you all could help me out here.

My girlfriend's birthday is next month and i want to get her one of the 13 inch MacBooks. She currently has one of the older G5 and does a lot of creative work and needs it to run CS3. Trying to find any insight to this matter.

2.26GHz
2GB memory
160 GB HD

2.53GHz
4GB memory
250 GB HD

 

[tempusfugit]

I have the latter, which runs CS4 fine. The former should probably handle it fine too, but you might want to upgrade to 4 gigs of ram in either case.


if she's going to install CS3 I don't think you'll have problems as it will only work better than it did on her g5.


Let me add that this girl better know that she's lucky!

 

[maflynn]

regardless of which model you choose make sure you upgrade to 4gig. So since the 2.26 only comes with 2gig, upgrade that puppy to 4gig.

 

[AnotherFanBoy]

I have the 2.53 and CS4 runs beautifully on it, although I can't see the 2.26 having any problems either.

 

[Kronie]

The processor wont really matter. Max out the RAM to 4 Gigs. CS3 should work fine.

 

[googdot]

I run the full CS3 suite on my 2.0GHz mini with 4gb of RAM - runs plenty fast and no issues whatsoever. Either Macbook should be fine.

 

[cluthz]

CS3 runs great on my 2.2GHz with 4GB ram.

Btw, after I've updated to 10.6 (and 10.6.1) I've had a few weird crashed which I never got back at 10.5.x.

I don't really wanna buy CS4, since CS5 is hopefully out soon.

Might just be me that has problems with Snow Leaopard and CS3 tho.

It's not very frequently, but I do have a crash once or twice a day, which i never had before I updated to SL.

 

[maflynn]

The only other comment I'd like to make is reference to the screen size. If you're not going to be using an external monitor, you may find the 13" screen a tad limiting with photoshop.

 

[SDChargers]

I have a 2.26 uMBP, I have 4 GBs of RAM, and CS3 runs perfect on it. I have had no problems what so ever with it. I have also had no problems since upgrading to Snow Leopard. But I have only used CS3 a couple times since upgrading.

 

[Dave351]

I have a ~2 year-old white MacBook 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo maxxed out at 2GB ram. I've been running CS3 since it was released, and as long as I limit myself to working with reasonable file sizes (usually <20GB in photoshop, <10GB in illustrator, etc) I seem to get pretty good performance.

If you can afford it, I'd recommend upgrading the ram to 4gig as mentioned above. However, if a ram upgrade is out of your budget right now, I think your MBP will still handle CS3 just fine until you can upgrade the ram.