With adequate RAM and that fusion drive, you should guard against whiplash
when loading your images and software. Seriously. I've got a smaller fusion
drive on my MacBook Air and it boggles my mind it's so fast. Things slow
down a little bit when I hook up my external hard drive with the photo
library. But not much.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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