CS2 Review - Update
Follow up:
Last night I took another try at doing actual editing in CS2 Mac version. I took time to properly setup all my keyboard shortcuts, as well as the actions I use to repeat common task (like oval select, feather, invert, curves via mask sort of processes that are much longer done by hand).
When I did my first test, everything was manual. My keyboard shortcuts didn't work (didn't realize how many custom shortcuts I'd become accustomed to), and I did all the processes by hand. So it seemed to take a lot longer than it really needed to.
Flying again with things properly adjusted, it was a different story. Sure, CS2 still lags a bit. No getting around it, but it didn't *seem* near as bad this time around.
Also-
I used iView Media Pro 2 purchased a year ago, and my disk has both PC and Mac (non-universal) versions on it. I installed this old version on the Mac and ran it. It was dog slow. Now it was always a bit slow and "buggy" feeling on the PC, but this was even worse.
Then, I downloaded the trial copy of their newest v. 3.1 which is a Mac Universal version. Installed that and WOAH! It blew me away. It was not only fast, but it was super fast. And not buggy in the least. I could drag in large collections of images, drop them, and very quickly they were added, sized, and cataloged. Interface was smooth, and clicking between images in the full size / media view was pretty quick (waaaaaay faster than the non-universal version I'd tried).
So, point being - this MBP stuff is perfectly capable as long as you're running Universal apps. I have high hopes that once CS3 comes out, this machine is going to be screaming fast. No problem what so ever being a complete desktop workstation replacement.
Last night I took another try at doing actual editing in CS2 Mac version. I took time to properly setup all my keyboard shortcuts, as well as the actions I use to repeat common task (like oval select, feather, invert, curves via mask sort of processes that are much longer done by hand).
When I did my first test, everything was manual. My keyboard shortcuts didn't work (didn't realize how many custom shortcuts I'd become accustomed to), and I did all the processes by hand. So it seemed to take a lot longer than it really needed to.
Flying again with things properly adjusted, it was a different story. Sure, CS2 still lags a bit. No getting around it, but it didn't *seem* near as bad this time around.
Also-
I used iView Media Pro 2 purchased a year ago, and my disk has both PC and Mac (non-universal) versions on it. I installed this old version on the Mac and ran it. It was dog slow. Now it was always a bit slow and "buggy" feeling on the PC, but this was even worse.
Then, I downloaded the trial copy of their newest v. 3.1 which is a Mac Universal version. Installed that and WOAH! It blew me away. It was not only fast, but it was super fast. And not buggy in the least. I could drag in large collections of images, drop them, and very quickly they were added, sized, and cataloged. Interface was smooth, and clicking between images in the full size / media view was pretty quick (waaaaaay faster than the non-universal version I'd tried).
So, point being - this MBP stuff is perfectly capable as long as you're running Universal apps. I have high hopes that once CS3 comes out, this machine is going to be screaming fast. No problem what so ever being a complete desktop workstation replacement.
1 Comments:
Kev you say "CS2 still lags a bit"
is that because of paralels?
If you get the mac pro and run a Mac version of PS will it still lag compaierd to a PC?
Same question for the Intuos 3
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