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Photoshop, MBP 1.83 GHz or PB 167GHz
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Portland
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I'm using an old ibook G3 700MHz for toting around to cafés to surf and very light duty work on PS. I'd like to have my next laptop do some heavier lifting, maybe even replacing not only the ibook, but also my 1.5 GHz mac mini. I would eventually get another desktop, no doubt a intel processor, but for now, I'm not sure which laptop to get. The Powerbook would be about $250 cheaper and PS would run native. I could up the ram to 2gb as well for the price ot he MBP alone. Anyone with some sage advice to a confused soul?
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Id go for the MBP as its the future of Apple. However you will find that PS runs like a dog on the machine. Clearly Abobe will (eventually) get round to going native with PS on the MBP.. but when?
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Photoshop isn't that bad. People just make it out to be that way. And I'm on a 1.66GHz Mac mini!!! Macworld even said that the speed of photoshop on the new intel macs was just as fast/faster that a 1gig G4
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Oh, and get the MacBook Pro.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles of the East
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id go with the macbook pro...both my intels feel about on par with a 1.5g4 regardless of tests when using photoshop. the only thing is rosetta is ram hungry so you have to have your machine maxed out with ram for it to run non ub apps as fast as it possibly can.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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will the new photoshop work well with both itel macs and G4/G5 macs?
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: California
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The new version of Photoshop will certainly run on the Intel machines, and one would assume on the PowerPC's as well. I am running Photoshop CS on my Macbook Pro, 2Ghz, 2G of RAM and it runs fine for me; seems every bit as fast as my previous Powerbook, a 1.5Ghz G4. Could just be what I have done, though; I have not exactly run any benchmark tests or anything.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Hollywood, Ca
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I'm with the majority on this one. Go for the MacBook Pro. It will run Photoshop faster than your current iBook, and Adobe has already confirmed that Photoshop CS3 will be a Universal Binary. CS3 will surely FLY on the MacBook Pro and leave the Powerbook G4 in the dust.
Another thing I will point out is that, for a non-pro, the only real noticable speed-hit with Photoshop on an Intel Mac is the time it takes the application to launch. Once Photoshop is started it feels quite responsive.
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My Computer: MacBook Pro 2GHz, Mac OS X 10.4.5
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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The Pbk 1.67 is a wonderful machine, runs cooler than the MBP, has 800 FW, and will run the current Photoshop faster than the MBP. If you do want an MBP, I'd wait for the new processors -- one hopes they will be cooler, and that they will be announced in the next few weeks. But if you can find a PBK 1.67 cheap, it's definitely a fine machine. Unless your use of Photoship is really intensive, I doubt it will make a huge difference. If you get a PBK 1.67 HD, you should get the screen replaced (Apple will do it for free).
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: NY
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Buy a g4 right now seems silly to me. Id go for the macbook pro and then wait for CS3
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Portland
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the G4 I can get for $450 cheaper than I can a MBP 1.8GHz. The extra cash can go towards an Epson 2400 that I'm also drooling after.
I think the next few days I'll be gathering more info on this topic, and then purchase on Friday or Saturday.
More advice???
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: La Crosse, WI
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I'd go with the PowerBook. It suits all of your needs, it's cheaper, has the same great build and form factor, runs cooler, and you won't have to test and guess about the problems you might have if you were to go with a first revision machine like the MBP. If you load it with RAM it'll handle PhotoShop great. Unless you plan on doing very intensive PhotoShop and video editing for years to come, I'd go with the cheaper PowerBook. If PhotoShop runs pretty much the same on the PowerBook and the MBP under Rosetta, why not save yourself the money, get the PowerBook, then wait another 6 months to a year and sell the PowerBook or trade up and get a MBP when some of the bugs have been worked out and PhotoShop CS3 is available.
I'm in the same boat as you...agonizing over whether I should keep my PowerBook or go for a MacBook, and I'm just going to keep my PB. It tears through everything I do, it's stable, it's reliable, has no defects whatsoever, so I find no need to get anything different yet.
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