Re: Adobe apps languish under Rosetta.

In article <mr-E729BE.19374202042006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sandman <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <znu-CDB1FE.13135502042006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think you'll also find that the MacBook Pro is certainly a pro
laptop (hell, benchmarks show it's almost as fast as a dual G5
tower), and a lot of pros run Adobe apps on their laptops.

They do? Well, of course they do - I'm a pro and run PS on my laptop -
but do they run it as their main PS workstation?

Sure, some may actually "dock" their PB to a big ass screen at work,
and such, but surely a 17" (or even worse - a 15") screen is way too
small to do serious professional work on for an extended period of
time. And, in the case of docking, would the slower disk and FSB be
too limiting to use it as a full-time professional photo editing
platform?

I don't know how true that is anymore. You can get a 7200 RPM hard drive
in your MacBook Pro. The screen is now bright enough to match an
external screen, and the machine will drive a 30" display. And, as I
mentioned, FSB issues aside, benchmarks show a 2 GHz Core Duo MacBook
Pro is nearly as fast as a dual 2 GHz G5 tower (it's within 20% in most
tests; sometimes it's a lot closer).

With laptop performance like that, I'm thinking my current dual G5 might
be the last desktop I ever buy. When I replace it in the next year or
two, I suspect Apple's pro laptops will be easily capable of doing
everything I need to do -- including HD video editing.

Well, we'll see. I imagine the pro towers will probably be pretty insane
by that time as well. But the usability gap for desktops vs. laptops
with CPU-intensive tasks is definitely narrowing.

That said, I use PS on my PB15 all the time, but only for light stuff,
never for any "serious" work since it's way too slow and has too
little RAM and too small screen (ahem, I admit that my reference is a
bit skewed, but still).

I guess professional photographers could be a possible group that use
PS professionally on a laptop on the field as a part of their workflow
- not graphic designers and illustrators. People that use PS
"mouseless" with filters/batches rather than for image compositing.
Maybe that's what you had in mind.

Yeah, pro photography is probably the major market for on-the-go
Photoshopping. Fortunately for pro photographers, Aperture (which is
much more processor-intensive than Photoshop) will be universal this
month.

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