MacBooks and Adobe CS5??

[manyminis]

Has anyone tried CS5 (especially Photoshop) on an early 2008 MacBook 2.4 GHz with GMA X3100 and 144MB VRAM? Wanting to upgrade from CS2 but I didn't want to get a MacBook Pro until late 2010. I know it will be slower, but will it work?

Adobe's requirements state 244MB vram needed, but that seems like a huge requirement for the MacBook's smaller screen.

 

[waloshin]

I'm sorry m but I doubt that Cs5 when it come out probably wont run on your Macbook, bur hey download a trial and test it and let us know.

 

[cluthz]

Has anyone tried CS5 (especially Photoshop) on an early 2008 MacBook 2.4 GHz with GMA X3100 and 144MB VRAM? Wanting to upgrade from CS2 but I didn't want to get a MacBook Pro until late 2010. I know it will be slower, but will it work?

Adobe's requirements state 244MB vram needed, but that seems like a huge requirement for the MacBook's smaller screen.

Photoshop does use very little of your GPU power so don't worry!
And yes CS5 will be a lot faster on your MacBook, just due to the fact that CS2 is written in PPC code and CS5 is intel code.

It will not be slower, it will be faster. (At least CS4 is)

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Photoshop appears to be the only product in the suite that has a VRAM requirement, and it's 256MB. So yeah, you're probably going to have problems with PS but everything else should work.

Mac OS
Multicore Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
1GB of RAM
2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

 

[sethwalt]

list of tested video cards

I'm in a similar boat. It looks like the minimum vram is 128, it's just that 256 is recommended. Here's a link:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/831/cpsid_83117.html

 

[miicah]

But again, minimum specs are usually overstated.

 

[Dolorian]

The higher VRAM requirements for Photoshop CS5 are used mostly for the accelerated graphics features like animated zooming, panning, window shadows, 3D, etc. You can disable these in the preferences and use the program without them.

 

[alphaod]

If you put in 4GB of RAM into your MacBook with the X3100 GPU, it should increased the used VRAM to 288MB.

 

[Simcat]

Macbook 2.2 4 GB Ram. CS5 3D (Repousse) won't work?

Apparently the GeForce 8600M GT on my 2.2 Macbook Pro doesn't have enough grunt to run open GL for Repousse to function! Grrrrr.
Options? Upgrade my Macbook Pro, get a decent desktop or try something like ViDock to boost my Video performance.
I've emailed Villagetronic about ViDock and waiting for a response to see if this would solve the issue