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Some 2013 MacBook Air Models Exhibit Severe Flickering With Photoshop

1st gen. hardware + unstable drivers. What do you expect? A production ready machine, or what!?

Photoshop on a MBA which has a small, substandard screen? In that case you can use GraphicConverter or Pixelmator, if you do not need the color management functions.
 
Mine doesn't flicker but at random times the screen shuts off like it went to sleep and I have to login. It's super random. Sometimes all I do is move the mouse or click something and it'll just go to sleep. Sometimes I'm just reading.
 
plasticsman said:
People connect big monitors to their air all the time. Why wouldn't we? Its a small powerful machine. And if traveling, can make some quick fixes.
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I have a 2012 13" model, Photoshop CS6 and CC work well for small to medium projects, yet even then the four threads struggle. I mainly use it in lieu of my iPad, let's face it, iPad's have been great for entertainment and very light use. My Mac Pro is (and always will be) my goto system for my work. One day it would be great to have the MacBook line follow the Air model if and when it becomes powerful enough. Notebooks are the only item I would agree that benefit from thinner/lighter design cues, not the iMac or Mac Pro.
 
"When we file a bug with Apple that we cannot reproduce ourselves: Apple ignores it".

Know the feeling. Apple's feedback on issues raised is non-existent most of the time in my experience. I don't get the impression that they care all that much about their customers and developers. Once they've got your money that's it.
 
Seppentoni said:
I'm a graphic/web Designer an I work on a MBA full time (Of course with a nice 27" screen).
I don't understand what the MBP is for. The MBA does everything really great, unless you do video Editing then an MBA doesn't suffice.
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MBP has:

- More max RAM (8GB vs 16GB)
- Bigger screen for on the go stuff
- Better processors available
- Retina (although not a deal breaker)
- Dedicated graphics card for 15" model

For Graphic/Web Design I think the deal breakers are max RAM and screen size. You can't upgrade the RAM later on (thanks a lot Apple :rolleyes:) and bigger screen comes in handy.

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Mr. Retrofire said:
1st gen. hardware + unstable drivers. What do you expect? A production ready machine, or what!?

Photoshop on a MBA which has a small, substandard screen? In that case you can use GraphicConverter or Pixelmator, if you do not need the color management functions.
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Ummm yea...
 
That's a problem of Photoshop itself.

Here, Windows 8 (laptop) and Windows 7 (desktop) - that happens too. That's a problem with Photoshop compatibility with drivers. That bug has been reported several times and many users are holding the upgrade until that bug is fixed.
 
This is an Adobe problem, plain and simple. They need to fix their own bugs instead of blaming Apple for their shortcomings.

:apple::apple::apple:
 
lkrupp said:
I've never paid attention to this sort of stuff and have never been jumpy about buying an Apple product. Never, in my over 30 years of using Apple products have I EVER experienced any of the glitches reported by that ethereal "some users" crowd. The instantaneous nature of the Internet these days makes stuff like this look common when it is not.:confused:
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Yeah most of the stuff is very much blown out of proportion. That's not saying there isn't a legitimate issue for some users, but those users tend to, more often than not, be the vocal minority.

That said, I have bought a machine (a first generation MacBook Pro Retina) with your mindset in that I told myself not to worry about the ethereal complaints from some users, and I ended up with a machine I ultimately returned to Apple due to more than one of the issues described by this so-called "vocal minority" (such as screen burn-in, case flex/creaking, and sleep/wake issues amongst other smaller things such as the keyboard backlight buzzing audibly).

I'm not saying every one of these issues that pops up is a major design fault, but at the same time, discrediting it as one isolated incident is often not the case. I learned that the hard way with my 15" Retina and I'll be sitting back for a little bit when I pick up a Haswell one to see if the kinks have been worked out.
 
Mr. Retrofire said:
1st gen. hardware + unstable drivers. What do you expect? A production ready machine, or what!?
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Why should I expect any less from a company who markets their machines as the best of the best and charges top dollar from them to boot.

Is it acceptable if your new Porsche constantly stalled on the highway based on the grounds that it was a new model year? What do you expect? A production ready car?
 
I sure would like to know when anytime an issue dealing with a piece of software installed on the Mac that it's automatically the Mac's problem? Are developers so perfect that there's absolutely no way that they are at fault? How come it's only Photoshop and not any software that comes preinstalled on the Mac? Gotta love Adobe, it's always Apple's fault. I do suggest to some of the people that are already set to believe it's the Macbook Air's fault to please open your eyes?
 
Krauser said:
Why should I expect any less from a company who markets their machines as the best of the best and charges top dollar from them to boot.

Is it acceptable if your new Porsche constantly stalled on the highway based on the grounds that it was a new model year? What do you expect? A production ready car?
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It's a matter of priority. One could get you killed, the other may mess with your workflow a bit. They do far more rigorous testing in the auto industry.
 
Does it do that with Flickr also? ;)

Seriously, that's why Apple's competitors fragment their offerings into various model with obscure numbered names and release them gradually thorough the year.

"Some Dell Inspire D234878EW laptops exhibit X problem" is a lot less newsworthy, and its harder for affected users to gather and complain about it, since they feel they're only one of a few that have this model. Also, there's not a lot of big Dell users websites that have the same visibility as Apple news sites.

Also if there's a big hardware problem with a model, they can simply stop producing it and release a fixed version with a different model number. Apple's revisions keep the same names.

Go into the tech support forums for various PC companies (those that have one) and you'll see that there are tons of hardware problems happening on Windows laptops and desktop too. They're just not newsworthy.
 
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ajcadoo said:
Kinda unsure why this is considered front page news. The amount of people with a 2013 Air (announced just days ago) using Photoshop might be around the 500-600 mark.
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I would guess that close to all 600 aren't working correctly. My screen looks quite a bit worse than the one in this video when using the paint brush, my wi-fi connection disconnects after 1 minute when connecting to older routers, and my computer occasionally goes to sleep for no reason and freezes while making a beeping noise.

Without this being front page news, I probably would have put off calling Apple.
 
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