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which book does my girl friend need?

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4fingered

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Aug 13, 2008
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My Girl friend is in Fashion School and is graduating in about a week. Her parents are getting her a new computer for grad so that she can use it in her work. She wants to get a new macbook of some kind as her 3 year old ibook is much too slow now.

Her question is, which macbook should she get? She uses all the Adobe software (photo shop, illustrator etc.) heavily. Now I recommended she get a 15" macbook pro but she is wondering if she really needs that or if she could go for the top of the line macbook. I am a video editor and haven't spent much time with the Adobe software, do those programs tend to rely on vram much?
 
Those Apps will run fine on the Macbook unless she is doing any extremely (and when I say extremely I mean extremely) heavy work which requires more graphics power.

Also I recommend waiting a couple of weeks as its near enough gospel that new models of both are due out soon.
 
First...wait for the new MacBooks to come out (pure rumors/speculation, but eyes point to Oct. 14th)...and if I was her, I would go for the 15". You have plenty of power/hard drive and the screen is wonderful. Very bright and has more screen space (resolution wise) than the MacBook. And on top, the MacBook Pro is much more professional looking than the MB.
 
this is true. that was my other point to her is the screen real estate. I guess I may as well wait to see if the new Macbooks have the hi res LED screens too and then make the decision.
 
Since she's going to grad school, sounds like she's going to be doing professional work soon if she hasn't started to already.

I agree that she should probably get the MBP.
 
After Effects does, and photoshop will, offer GPU accelleration. Most other things in the suite are CPU Based (well premiere and sound apps can use external hardware but)
 
one of these badboys

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Refurb MBP. Very close in price to a top of the line new MacBook, but with the higher resolution, and extra ports for transferring large image projects.
 
thanks for the responses guys

and to firefly: of course she can figure it out herself but it never hurts to get a 3rd and 4th, 5th etc... opinion. sounds like she'll be getting the MBP
 
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