You own a Mac Book Pro?
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- benfal99
Just curious and I know its the right place to ask this. Who here own a Mac Book Pro and work with it? Like doing some heavy Photoshop (300dpi 24"x36" files) or some After Effects etc.In fact, i want to know if a Mac Book Pro has enough power to be a main working machine for someone into graphic design for print.
thankssssssssssss
- Kiggen0
Not for large scale motion projects, i have and old one that i do use for motion, but there are limits and your all the heavy duty rendering will weat the computer much quicker out...
- ********0
i have a old mbp 2007,
and it can do large files.. A2 300dpi etc.. but it goes a bit slower.. but then again, i have an old one, 2gig ram, and 1500fonts activated- 1500 fonts activated?Kiggen
- yes********
- i heard it slows down your system********
- i had 2000+ activated few weeks ago********
- That is crazy. When your comp starts running slow try organizing them in folders in FontExplorer. Activate the ones you need for the project and turn the rest off. That's just stupid IMO.graphiknature
- good idea********
- get fontagent pro, works great.akrokdesign
- monospaced0
Yeah, they're capable.
- Ambushstudio0
If it's photoshop retouching you're doing definitely no, the display is not designed for that.
- i would plug a real display sometimesbenfal99
- what! right and don't shot digital.akrokdesign
- Infirm0
Yes totally, max the ram and it is fine.
- utopian0
I used to all my heavylifting in PS on my Mac Pro Book for several years, works fine.
- _me_0
there is nothing you will think of doing that a mac book pro cant do - otherwise you wouldn't ask such a question.
- benfal990
iam asking because I own a Mac Pro for work and I own a Dell Laptop to surf the web anywhere in the house and to listen to DVD's in the bed. I was thinking of owning only a super good Mac Book Pro to do all this. I would plug it in my flat 22" LDC when i work and would be able to take it anywhere for the rest.
- Scotch_Roman0
benfal, you actually have a job?
Something is unbalanced in the universe.
- i do have a job. why?benfal99
- You strike me as the sort of person upon whom the concept of professionality is utterly wasted.Scotch_Roman
- what do you mean?benfal99
- Wow Gramme, Whats up man?Kiggen
- raf0
The new 17" MBPro is very tempting, especially that they come with a matte display option. I'm waiting with any mac purchases until they refresh the OS (Snow Leopard)
- Meeklo0
the answer is yes.
here is why.go back in time 5 years.
every motion piece/ print piece was performed on less potent machines than we have today. is that good enough for you?I use it as my main machine, and I run realtime editing/ sound generated animation for night clubs/ concert venues. Even capturing video of the performer and splitting it up to 4 screens.
I think its enough..
- Wrong logic, now we have HD and much complicated effects in lets say..after effectsKiggen
- after effects has been around foreverMeeklo
- I was just commenting on the fact that we don't really need the best of the best...Meeklo
- I'm talking about more effects, the 3d space, its gotten a very compiclated program with big render timesKiggen
- No, we don't ofcoure, i use my macbook pro also for after effects, but its not ideal. I have a macrp and thats more easier to work with...Kiggen
- graphiknature0
I own a unibody 2.4 Mac book Pro with 2 gb of ram and I can do all of my design work in PS and also I have no problem editing/retouching my RAW photos. The machine is fast. I haven't found a ned to even upgrade the ram at this point.
- bulletfactory0
i have one that I use for all my print/web work:
2.5 GHz
2 GB RAM
- it's enough machine
- erikjonsson0
i got one and its working fine. i was actually kinda suprised by the fact that it handles photoshop and illustrator paralell without problems. im doing web comps and print
- mirrorball0
wait until this snow leotard comes out, doubt you will see a quickness with cs4 though aparently they aren't making it super speedy (using cores 64-bit) for it until cs5
- raf0
I wouldn't hold my breath for 64 bit. If you have Lightroom 2 you can switch it to run as an 64 bit application. I don't see any difference in speed.
- Any real speed-difference for lighroom libraries would be RAM and HD speed. 64bit for processing images should see an increase, depending on the operation.********
- a speed bump, depending on the operation at a hand. More processors is more noticeable than 64bit, likely.********
- Any real speed-difference for lighroom libraries would be RAM and HD speed. 64bit for processing images should see an increase, depending on the operation.
- mattiaBK0
Yes, it can. I have it, and I use PS, AI, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, and I have not had any problems.
I also have a G5, and I'm thinking to switch and make the MBP my main machine.
- threadpost0
It's doable, but I find rendering (or even scrubbing the timeline in AE) really chugs and I have 4 gb ram. More often than not, if I'm rendering large AE files, I get errors that frustrate the bajesus out of me.
Doable, but not ideal.
- mirrorball0
I'm running a G5 with 6gb of ram and breezing easily along using all CS4's illy, photoshop, indesign & bridge. I've noticed that Safari 4's beta uses shat loads of memory! I had about 20 tabbed windows and it became very sloggy, it was using 1.3gb of ram thats why!!! so turn off safari if yah dont need it.