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pra9ab0y · 03:02 PM

I am going to buy a macbook.
I do not have the money to get a macbook Pro but I want a white 2.0ghz macbook in white. I will probably need to run Final Cut Studio and I understand it is not possible to run this application on a macbok to its full potential. I would like to know therefore if there is a way to incease the graphics memory that is shared by the ram?

Say If I had 2gb of RAM is there a way of Splitting it so that I can have 1.75gb of RAM and have 256mb dedicated to graphics?
Also
Does the 2.0 Macbook run photoshop CS2?

mduell · 06:11 PM

The shared graphics memory is automatically increased (up to ~200MB) by the OS as necessary. FCP and DVDSP should be fine (aside from the limited screen space), but Motion will not run.
Photoshop CS2 runs on the Macbook via Rosetta emulation.

edit: Whatdya know, he's right, Motion won't run at all.

d_oob · Nov 26, 2006, 05:46 PM

FCP and DVSP work well on a MacBook as well as Soundtrack Pro. The screen size is small but great size for on-the-go. Also Remember that if you ge tthe optional Mini-DVI to DVI or VGA adapter then you can run a 2nd monitor. Not just Mirror like old iBooks but actually Span the desktop giving you lots of room. I run a 17inch Apple Studio Display and the graphics done slow down or drag or ghost or anything like that. It's plenty fast. Mduell is right about Motion not working to its fullest:

AGP Quartz Extreme or PCI Express graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not supported on systems using the Intel Extreme Graphics 950 GMA)

I'm finding all the other parts of the Suite work well on the MacBook.

pra9ab0y · Nov 26, 2006, 05:59 PM

Thanks look like i will be getting myslef a macbook tomorrow then!

stefanicotine · Nov 26, 2006, 06:54 PM

I've never had CS2 successfully run on an Intel Mac. So far only CS will run for me. But I could be doing something wrong ...

Panz · Nov 30, 2006, 06:39 PM

It runs fine for me under roseta though as i have said in other posts i am only producing graphics which i guess are classified as simple.

Nivag · Nov 30, 2006, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by stefanicotine

I've never had CS2 successfully run on an Intel Mac. So far only CS will run for me. But I could be doing something wrong ...

i've seen CS2 running ok on Intel Macs with 2GB of RAM, 4GB+ is better. not great prefect but useable until the native version turns up.

stefanicotine · Nov 30, 2006, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by Nivag

i've seen CS2 running ok on Intel Macs with 2GB of RAM, 4GB+ is better. not great prefect but useable until the native version turns up.

I have 2 gigs on all of my machines. It's not that it's slow, it's that it refuses to open and just gives me errors.

Nivag · Dec 1, 2006, 06:40 AM

i had a client that had a similar problem after running an update on CS2, i got him to change the permissions on this folder

YourHD/Library/Application Support/Adobe

give permissions to everyone and unlock everything.

I used BatChmod 1.37 - VersionTracker to do this, just tick all the boxes.

typoon · Dec 1, 2006, 03:25 PM

CS2 has issues running in 10.4.8 There is an article on it on the Adobe forums. It's an issue with Pathfinder. I have a few Intel Mac mini's running CS2 and they run fine. There is also an issue where if they have Illustrator open they can't have Photoshop open at the same time or it crashes Illustrator and vice versa.