Thanks, Bob & ChrisB. I will heed your advice. I really need advice on
the importance and performance of of the GPU in using Photoshop... the
only thing that stresses my current machine.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/24/2015 10:46 AM, ChrisB wrote:
I agree with Bob about OWC; they are an innovative lot.
On the other hand, Chuck is the sort of person that Apple is trying to tempt to
the Other Side, so a call to their sales team should be fruitful.
I managed to buy a nearly new MacBook a couple of weeks ago – for a very good price.
But the previous owner had probably left the thing plugged to the charger and the battery
condition was only 90%. I talked this through with Apple support (based in Athens :-)) and
the experience was very useful. I then had an appointment with a Genius in Cambridge who
checked the battery for me. It was fine, but he advised me how to keep the health from
deteriorating further: use it, don’t leave it plugged in.
I was impressed with the overall level of service, and I bet the sales team is
up to the mark.
Chris
On 24 Dec 2015, at 13:56, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now that I've had to go help a few unfortunate owners of new Win10 machines or
(worse) upgraders from Win7 I have vowed I'm never going to Win10. I am
seriously thinking of turning myself into an Apple fanboy.
That, of course, requires running Photoshop on some sort of Mac configuration.
I don't want a Mac laptop (yet) and don't need a big monitor (already have one)
so I've been thinking of Mac minis. These can be configured from about
$500-2,000. What do I need in the way of CPU, graphics processor and memory to
get good Photoshop performance? I make extensive use of ACR to process 16MP
E-M1/M5 images and need to consider that the E-M1 MkII will likely have the
40MP mode or maybe even larger. Of course, such large image sizes will not be
the norm but probably do dictate 16GB RAM.
My current machine is an HP desktop with 8GB and an AMD A8 5500 quad-core at
3.2GHz with integrated graphics. Performance is similar to an Intel i3 3220
although the AMD's graphics performance is better. This has what I consider
acceptable performance for 16MP images but hardly bowls me over. For some
reason recent startup performance in Photoshop has become much slower. I've
never timed it but it seems that it's not really ready to rock and roll until
it's been up for 20-30 seconds. After that performance is normal.
I'd love to have something that's twice as fast or even 3 times as fast if
that's possible.
Thanks,
Chuck Norcutt
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