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MacBook/Windows XP/Photoshop CS2
David Boily, Photographer
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Montreal | QC | Canada | Posted: 8:37 AM on 06.06.06 |
->> Hi all,
I just switched from PC to Mac with a new Macbook 1.8. I LOVE Macs! I believe!!! Anyhow, the only negative so far is the insanely slow CS2. (haven't upgraded RAM yet)
Has anyone tried running XP on their MacBook yet? Can you toggle from mac apps straight to XP apps easily, or do you have to boot up in either?
I was wondering if CS2 would be faster in XP, rather than Rosetta. The negative would be the extra disk space XP would take on the already small HD.
Any experiences? |
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Jack Kurtz, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 9:54 AM on 06.06.06 |
->> Other reviewers have said RAM makes a huge difference with Rosetta - I would max out the RAM and see if that makes things any better. You might also try a couple of apps that are already Universal. Both Photo Mechanic and the Lightroom beta are already Universal and might be worth alternatives to Bridge and ACR and could speed up your work flow some.
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Adam Hemphill, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Willimantic | CT | US | Posted: 12:06 PM on 06.06.06 |
| ->> CS2 will likely be faster in XP than under Rosetta... Ycannot switch quickly between operating systems with Apple's Boot Camp but a program called Parallels allows you to do so. |
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David Boily, Photographer
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Montreal | QC | Canada | Posted: 5:54 PM on 06.07.06 |
| ->> So I went out and bought more RAM today, maxing it out to 2GB. That makes a HUGE difference! Performance using Photoshop CS2 is perfectly acceptable and probably in line with my Toshiba Centrino 1.3Ghz if not better. |
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David Meyer, Photographer
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Monty Rand, Photographer
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Bangor | ME | USA | Posted: 6:42 AM on 06.08.06 |
| ->> I have windows XP installed on my MacBook Pro and Photoshop. The combination is great. I just hate using photoshop on the windows side as I don't like the interface. Not as nice looking as the mac side. It's very, very fast and I use it to convert large numbers of files and then I transfer them back to the mac side. does save alot of time. |
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Will Duncan, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Johnson City | TN | USA | Posted: 11:06 PM on 06.11.06 |
| ->> I dropped the extra RAM in my MacBook Pro, still slower than my old PC desktop as far as adobe software goes. Can't wait for a universal release. I'm in love with everything else though. |
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Jon Thorpe, Photographer
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Mississauga(Toronto Area) | On | Canada | Posted: 4:11 PM on 06.12.06 |
->> My macbook is SLOW. Like.. step back in time to my pentium 3 kinda slow. But like others have mentioned, I have yet to dump in the gull 2gb of ram and will likely wait a little while on that as I still use a desktop as my main system. Admittingly, the macBook was picked up as a toy. It plays my mp3's and DVD's just fine :) Tonight I may give keynotes a try...
I think Apple really dropped the ball with the new intel machines. What were they thinking, releasing such a beast before software was available to actually run on it. I know Apple is all about keeping things hush-hush.. but they likely lost a lot of buyers with this. I hope that they made it up by latching onto some new PC / Bootcamp users. Do any of you current Apple folk feel betrayed by this lack of thoughtfulness?
PS - CS2 WILL run much much faster under XP through bootcamp as its running native instead of emulated. |
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Al Goldis, Photographer
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East Lansing | MI | USA | Posted: 6:46 PM on 06.12.06 |
->> 1. OS X likes RAM. The more RAM you give it, the faster it runs.
2. Rosetta likes RAM. The more RAM you give it, the faster it runs.
3. See 1 and 2. :-)
If Apple waited until all the software developers came out with Universal Binary versions before they released Intel machines then they would NEVER be released. They had to get the machines out or the developers would never get going.
Adobe knew about the Intel switch months before the public did yet they still won't have their main applications ported until next year.
Also, it seems a little worse because Apple is about six months ahead of their predicted schedule on the switch. |
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David Boily, Photographer
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Montreal | QC | Canada | Posted: 8:51 PM on 06.12.06 |
->> Jon,
The difference with 2GB of RAM is insane. The straight MacBook is almost unusable for me at 512MB but is affordable for the young student crowd who don't necessairly need that kind of speed and want a hip machine that is basically a big iPod. It will work great for writing essays and E-mailing. With the 2GB of RAM it runs like a P4 instead of a Celeron. When Adobe realises that 99.9% of photographers use Photoshop and that most of those use Macs, I hope they will get their act together. I think Adobe is the one who dropped the ball. This might be an opportunity for someone else to steal business from Adobe.
Photo Mechanic flies with the dual core, so Photoshop will be pretty impressive. |
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