Photoshop Illustrator For Mac
An employee uses a 24', 2.8GHz iMac with 2GB RAM (the standard config for the highest end model) and always complains about the speed of Photoshop in it. This is the 2nd iMac I've bought them this year, and they still complain about the slowness of it. So I feel I should buy them a Mac Pro and hopefully that will solve all of the issues. Are there any other people within the web/graphic design industry that could mention their computer specs so I can get an idea of what I need to spend in order to get the best available one for the right money. For example, is it worth spending the extra £1k for the 400Mhz more? Which version of Photoshop are they using?
Jul 09, 2008 If you get a Mac Pro anyway then don't upgrade the gfx card, as Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 will make no use of it. Apart from that, Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 won't use 4 or even 8 cores to their full power, as far as I know. The major bugs present in the CC2017 versions of Illustrator and InDesign running on High Sierra have been worked out between a macOS update and the latest CC apps, and I’ve noticed fairly significant speed gains in both those apps.
If it isn't CS3, it'll be dog slow whatever computer you buy them CS2 and earlier are PPC-only and run under Rosetta emulation. Personally I use the CS3 suite on a 2.4ghz 17' MacBook Pro and an iMac on a fairly regular basis and find Photoshop CS3 performance to be damned good. 4gb RAM is worth having (especially if they're working on large images), although 2gb should still be very useable. A Mac Pro is faster, and well worth having if possible (we have a couple of those too), but not ridiculously so unless we're talking about billboard-sized images requiring vast amounts of RAM. I have to agree with tersono. It makes more or less no sense to run CS2 on an intel based mac, it will be slow on an iMac and it will be slow on a Mac Pro. With CS3 I doubt you will gain much performance going from a 2,8 ghz iMac to a 2,8 ghz Mac Pro, unless we are talking about really big billboards and psd documents well above 500mb.
For regular print or web work these are almost never needed. If you get a Mac Pro anyway then don't upgrade the gfx card, as Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 will make no use of it. Apart from that, Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 won't use 4 or even 8 cores to their full power, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong on that one though. In my opinion upgrading ram to 4 gb will give quite a performance boost. Of course a Mac Pro could give one too, but personally I doubt it would be worth the money and the time to get one. Edit: You must be quite a nice boss to have, most bosses that I know would go '.
and use this 1ghz G4 for another year, I'm flying to hawaii and you finish that job, I have no money to buy you new machine, in fact I'm reducing your wage.' Click to expand.I guess your 9gb ram help rosetta a lot? I've read many different statements regarding CS2 on intel macs, some claim it to be stable and fast, others to be unreliable and slow.
Somehow I tend to believe them all, it's the same with office. Personally I had CS2 running on my 2,8 ghz iMac with 2 gb ram, it was definitely useable, but I felt a rather big performance increase with CS3, specially when I have Illustrator/Photoshop/Indesign opened at once. I guess it's really a ram thing.
Adobe Photoshop For Mac
Just to add to this old thread for any other web designers. Having upgraded to iMac to 4GB RAM, it has had an impact, but it is still too slow and noticeably at that. Of note, this is for a professional who always has open: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Safari. So I'm taking the iMac and buying a Mac Pro: Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 16GB (8x2GB) ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB GDDR3 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS 3Gb/s 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s One 16x SuperDrive AirPort Extreme Card (Wi-Fi) Mac Pro RAID Card I'll let people know how we get on once it's arrived.