Sion
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go for it. it's super fast. I bought one for my wife last Oct for her to surf net. :thumbsup:
Get her this so that she has to surf the net all day and leaves you alone:
go for it. it's super fast. I bought one for my wife last Oct for her to surf net. :thumbsup:
the "Penryn" series of processor, or rather Harpertown, which is the 45nm process workstation processor, has already been out for several months... at least for DIY and "other computer brands"... I think you are thinking about "Nehalem", which should be out in the second half of 08... who knows, Apple might wait for Nehalem before upgrading their MacPros...soon might be about mid 08... penryn processor might not be available to consumers till then, altho manufacturing might be announced soon.
and isn't all this talk of maxing out the options, using fibre channel, SAS, etc, also not abit overkill for photoshop?... ;pIsnt that a bit overkill to just surf the net???
.................and people are complaining about price hikes.
Different sets of people.
kind of curious, how much faster is the Mac pro compared to the macbook pro for photoshop?
Anyone with both?
i dont have a MP yet...but so far, when i look at pics on my MBP, i realised the screen is not 'viewable' from all angles.hard to describe...but i dont see this problem on my apple 23 and 30 inches display.
i guess the main advantage is the ability of MP to up the ram to err...16 or 32gb?
my mbp only has 4 gb.
and when i open too many pics on cs3, it hangs on me sometimes and i have to force quit it.
to me, proper editing should be done on a 'desktop'...while mbp allows me to view pics when i'm doing a shoot outside.it's really more for portability.
and when i open too many pics on cs3, it hangs on me sometimes and i have to force quit it.
i dont have a MP yet...but so far, when i look at pics on my MBP, i realised the screen is not 'viewable' from all angles.hard to describe...but i dont see this problem on my apple 23 and 30 inches display.
i guess the main advantage is the ability of MP to up the ram to err...16 or 32gb?
my mbp only has 4 gb.
and when i open too many pics on cs3, it hangs on me sometimes and i have to force quit it.
the extra RAM capacity on the Mac Pro may matter very little to you then, since at the moment (if i remember correctly) CS3 has a max RAM allocation of 3GB, despite the total amount of physical RAM you have.
this article that Parka posted earlier makes a reference to this limit: http://diglloyd.com/diglloyd/free/MacPro/memory.html
thanks, I read some of the links but what do the numbers mean? 300meg files, 6MP actions?
Sometimes, if one drives at 40km/hr, is there a difference between a sports car and a van? You can always push the test so stringent until you see a difference in speed for a macpro.
I am more curious about everyday normal usage for photo editing, normal file sizes, maybe 10meg resolution 16bit depth. how is the speed liek for the two systems.
Also for users of both system, at what tasks do you find that there is a real like adv of a macpro compared to a macbook pro?
Of course, you can always use the macpro for surfing... nobody will stop you lah.