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Old 06-03-2008, 06:44 PM   #11 (permalink)
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depending on the level of photo editing depends on what hardware you need. If it is not professional level a macbook should do fine. Photo editing is all processor and ram performance. I have 5,500 C2D macbooks on my network and I have deployed CS3 Premium on about 200 of them. Never had a complaint that it wouldn't run, and these are stock macbooks with only 1 gig of RAM.
Well, I'm hoping to do professional level editing where my photos are worth paying for...

Maybe it would be best if I upgraded to 2GB?
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depending on the level of photo editing depends on what hardware you need. If it is not professional level a macbook should do fine. Photo editing is all processor and ram performance. I have 5,500 C2D macbooks on my network and I have deployed CS3 Premium on about 200 of them. Never had a complaint that it wouldn't run, and these are stock macbooks with only 1 gig of RAM.
Well CS3 runs on my Acer Celeron M 1.86GHz, 1GB of RAM and Vista

I would strongly encourage upgrading to 2-4GB of RAM.
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Don't buy RAM from their website.
Because it's too expensive you meen? Where should I get it?
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Well CS3 runs on my Acer Celeron M 1.86GHz, 1GB of RAM and Vista

I would strongly encourage upgrading to 2-4GB of RAM.
Yeah it should run, depending on the load you put on it depends on how well it will run.


Just get third party ram, ram is ram these days.
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Eh no remember photo editing is 2D work and Leopard isn't as power hungry as XP/Vista

I think that MacBook you pointed is fine and the OS it'self really just use 6GB OF HDD and the 120GB is really like 105GB then you have 99GB left to rule the world so in my opinion it will be fine.
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depending on the level of photo editing depends on what hardware you need. If it is not professional level a macbook should do fine. Photo editing is all processor and ram performance. I have 5,500 C2D macbooks on my network and I have deployed CS3 Premium on about 200 of them. Never had a complaint that it wouldn't run, and these are stock macbooks with only 1 gig of RAM.
Wrong. Adobe Photoshop CS4 is moving more of the graphics work to the GPU, which will allow you to zoom, pan and move across incredibly large images at full detail with little to no lag time (assuming you have a decent video card).
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Wrong. Adobe Photoshop CS4 is moving more of the graphics work to the GPU, which will allow you to zoom, pan and move across incredibly large images at full detail with little to no lag time (assuming you have a decent video card).
Well, at the moment I'm using Gimp and the new feature wont decrease speed on bad graphics cards will it?
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Wrong. Adobe Photoshop CS4 is moving more of the graphics work to the GPU, which will allow you to zoom, pan and move across incredibly large images at full detail with little to no lag time (assuming you have a decent video card).
That still doesn't take a top of the line GPU. In reality if you are rendering really high quality digital data, you want to probably get a Quadro or some other sort of work station render card.

Gaming cards still will have very small effect. With processors improving so rapidly they will still be the bread and butter of performance with photo or film editing.

Once you dabble into the 3rd rendering world, where you are rendering actual 3D objects and not 2D photos, then the GPU starts to shine.

So, it be may true, but it is also relative and subjective.
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I assume it has a standard monitor port so I can plug it into my 17", does it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but someone brought in their macbook into the store looking for a monitor cable, and it had some crazy messed up port on it. I dunno if it's a standard mac connection or something, but it definately wasn't VGA.
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