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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / August 2006MacBook and Photoshop
Hello, I have to get a MacBook for my college senior who has to have it for her art type major. I have heard from the Apple people that the laptop won't run Photoshop at the normal speed, but they are expecting a patch or upgrade or something. Anyone know more, like a time frame. I'd like to be able to wait until the fix is already in order. Thanks, Xray > Hello, > I have to get a MacBook for my college senior who has to have it for > her art type major. I have heard from the Apple people that the laptop > won't run Photoshop at the normal speed, but they are expecting a patch > or upgrade or something. Anyone know more, like a time frame. I'd like > to be able to wait until the fix is already in order. ===== I have a 2.0ghz Macbook and just loaded Photoshop ELEMENTS 4.0. I do have Photoshop CS2 but have not loaded it yet. Elements runs OK..... not quickly but quite usable. Rumor (at least what I hear), there will not be a universal version (i.e. your patch) until Spring 2007. Thanks for the input. I was hoping for an earlier patch but it will probably work out anyway. Thanks again, Xray >> Hello, >> I have to get a MacBook for my college senior who has to have it for [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Rumor (at least what I hear), there will not be a universal version (i.e. > your patch) until Spring 2007. I have installed Photoshop CS on my Intel Mac and it works just fine. although it may be a bit slower than on the G5 Mac, it is still plenty fast for me. For example, complicated adjustments that display in real-time such as filters DO seem like real-time. Although I have not used it much on my new Mac, I did not notice any slowdowns that could delay my work. Henri > Hello, > I have to get a MacBook for my college senior who has to have it for her [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks, > Xray This is probably a better question for the Adobe forums, but my understanding is that the Adobe products, especially Photoshop, are much slower on an Intel Mac compared to a PowerPC system. Adobe has also stated that they won't be releasing an Intel version of their software until next year. It's not as simple as putting out a patch. The application itself must be made Intel native. Hope this helps! bill  SignatureWilliam M. Smith (Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows) > It's not as simple as putting out a patch. The > application itself must be made Intel native. And I believe Adobe has stated that it'll be a new paid version, not a free upgrade to the current CS2 version. SignatureMike Rosenberg <http://www.macconsult.com> Macintosh consulting services for NE Florida <http://www.cafepress.com/macconsult,macconsult4> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://bogart-tribute.net> Tribute to Humphrey Bogart The reason for the slowness of running Photoshop on an Intel Mac is that Photoshop must be run under the emulator Rosetta. Running any program, especially as large and complex as Photoshop under an emulator is going to guarantee a performance hit. As mentioned here, Adobe has announced that it has no plans to upgrade the current CS2 version to universal binary (UB) which would solve the performance problem. They have chosen to wait until its next version to release the UB version. This is probably because the Mac version of CS2 was not written in a way that could be easily converted to UB. Generally, Adobe releases its Photoshop versions in the middle to latter part of the year. So, I don't expect to see the next version of Photoshop until at least May of 2007. If performance is an issue your senior can not get around, maybe using Apple's Boot Camp might be an option. Boot Camp is Apple's way of allowing your senior to either boot their MacBook into Windows XP or OS X. A visit to the Apple Boot Camp web site will give you information about the pros and cons of doing this, plus you need to own a full version of Windows XP and must be willing to partition the hard drive into two partitions, one for OS X and one for Windows. The upside is that I have seen a MacBook running Windows XP, and it is fast. Jeff > Hello, > I have to get a MacBook for my college senior who has to have it for her [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks, > Xray > Adobe has announced that it has no plans to upgrade the > current CS2 version to universal binary (UB) which would solve the > performance problem. They have chosen to wait until its next version to > release the UB version. This is probably because the Mac version of CS2 was > not written in a way that could be easily converted to UB. that's becorse photoshop is a hack it contains lots of old 68k code Signature--------------------------------------------------- Swedish Webcams <http://swecams.telgebo.se> --------------------------------------------------- Maybe that's why Adobe will take so long to get the Universal Binary version out. It takes a lot of work to bring an application into the 21st century. Jeff >> Adobe has announced that it has no plans to upgrade the >> current CS2 version to universal binary (UB) which would solve the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > that's becorse photoshop is a hack it contains lots of old 68k code |
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