Macbook Pro and Aperture and Photoshop

[rblogger]

Does anyone use Aperture on his new Macbook Pro?

How is the experience? Does Aperture get slow if you edit (changing a few sliders) a RAW image?

How is the experience with Photoshop? Since it is still running rosetta...

I ve ordered a MBP with 2.8 Ghz. I hope I will be able to work smoothly with those apps.

 

[kperrone]

Does anyone use Aperture on his new Macbook Pro?

How is the experience? Does Aperture get slow if you edit (changing a few sliders) a RAW image?

How is the experience with Photoshop? Since it is still running rosetta...

I ve ordered a MBP with 2.8 Ghz. I hope I will be able to work smoothly with those apps.

Have not messed with Aperture yet but Photoshop CS3 runs smoothly on my new MBP 2.4

 

[Cave Man]

CS3 does not run under Rosetta - it is Intel binary.

And both Aperture and CS3 run fine on a MBP.

 

[James_C]

I upgraded my early 2007 MacBook Pro 2.4GHz to the new 2.53Ghz MacBook Pro. I am running Aperture ver 2, with Photoshop CS3. CS3 runs natively not under Rosetta. I am running with just the 9400M graphics (I have found that I rarely need to use the 9600 GT and prefer to have the notebook running cooler). I have noticed that in Aperture moving through full screen images is noticeably quicker. Photoshop also loads noticeably faster on the new MacBook Pro as well. I was not expecting this much of a speed increase as the processor speed difference is not that great, but I suspect it is a combination of all of the new components having a small individual increase, as well as going from 2GB of Ram to 4GB.

I was on a two day Portrait course over the weekend, which included some professional photographers, the glossy screen was a topic of conversation, and basically all agreed that because the screen was so bright, it was a non issue. After seeing the new notebook one of them said they would be ordering one this week.

 

[rblogger]

I was on a two day Portrait course over the weekend, which included some professional photographers, the glossy screen was a topic of conversation, and basically all agreed that because the screen was so bright, it was a non issue. After seeing the new notebook one of them said they would be ordering one this week.

Very interesting to read that.

I am getting happier... the mbp just left shanghai... I bought Photoshop CS4 and it runs pretty well already on my imac 2.0 ghz.

 

[KThomsen]

James, that's great to hear. It's still the one thing I'm worried about on the new MBPs. I ordered it anyway and just hope it wont bug me too much.

Does CS4 run a lot faster/better than CS3 on the dual core, or what's the deal?

I've ordered Aperture 2 as well. I hope it's faster than Photoshop for daily use.

 

[840quadra]

Aperture works awesomely on both graphics chips so far. I think it is a bit smoother at working more complex modifications on the M GT, but overall it has been really nice.

Best to use with an external display for color accuracy, but you can do some really good work with the laptop display itself. I am also a heavy user of gimp, and have really enjoyed using the Leopard version of that application as well!