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New MacBooks for Design

Yr Blues

Yr Blues

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Well, my first generation MacBook will be just as productive as the new one. I love everything about the new ones, but I'm leery of the consumeristic lifestyle—so, maybe in a year or two I'd buy it if I absolutely needed it.

I would still be using my 12" if I didn't spill beer on it.

I figure if I can't design as good as the designers from the early 1900s, the computer is the least of my problems.
 
It's just an open-ended rant. Maybe I watched Slacker one too many times.
 
I dont know about the macbook, but i am considering the mbp for product/industrial design. I realize the gloss screen is going to be a hinderance, but they will have protectors for it to make it matte soon enough. I am basically chosing between the new HP 8530W, or the new mbp. Can't decide yet, i will be waiting until xmas to purchase to see what macrumors and others have to comment.
 
stewartlittle said:
I dont know about the macbook, but i am considering the mbp for product/industrial design. I realize the gloss screen is going to be a hinderance, but they will have protectors for it to make it matte soon enough. I am basically chosing between the new HP 8530W, or the new mbp. Can't decide yet, i will be waiting until xmas to purchase to see what macrumors and others have to comment.
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What kind of programs do industrial designers use? Curious. :)
 
Well me personally, solidworks is the biggy, then photoshop and illustrator, some use alias, as well as rhino, pro e. That sort of stuff
 
Some mac-users on Slashdot started the whole 'gloss v matte' war up again, with some interesting comments. Everyone in design still insist that matte is more colour accurate?
 
eclipse said:
Some mac-users on Slashdot started the whole 'gloss v matte' war up again, with some interesting comments. Everyone in design still insist that matte is more colour accurate?
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I used to think that having owned the 12 inch, but I found that no matter where I print my work the final product is in the hands of the printer and never NEVER the way intended unless I go to the printer and work with their engineer.

Accuracy and control does not make good design or art. Being prolific and fearless does make for good, exciting design.
 
I find it interesting though about the Matte VS Gloss debate, some pro photographers are saying they dont find gloss a problem whereas some do.

Comon Apple, make it a non-reflective glass :D
 
I've been in the graphic design field for 17 years now, and "back in the day" we all worked on glossy CRT screens. Some used filters, but I never did, and never had a problem with color repro or glare.

Fact is - people like to complain when they don't get their way. It's always the end of the world and the sky is falling. Designers will continue to design with glossy/glass screens if that's the only option avail.

I could go futher and say 17 years ago, my frist design job, we didn't even have color monitors. We had the old Apple B/W monitors. You had to view the pantone color books and then use your imagination to see what those colors would translate to on your design.
 
Glossy is not as big of a deal for me as the loss of the FW400 port. I use that ALL of the time on my MBP. That is a major loss to me.

-mx
 
While the new MacBook has a new Nvidia 9400M video processor, it is still an integrated processor that shares memory with the motherboard. Advertised at 5X faster than the previous intel integrated solution, it is still only 1/2 as fast as the Nvidia 8600GT dedicated video card of the MacBookPro.

The lack of a Firewire port is a problem for backup solutions like Time Machine
that can bottleneck the whole system.
 
BrianDavid0523 said:
I've been in the graphic design field for 17 years now, and "back in the day" we all worked on glossy CRT screens. Some used filters, but I never did, and never had a problem with color repro or glare.

Fact is - people like to complain when they don't get their way. It's always the end of the world and the sky is falling. Designers will continue to design with glossy/glass screens if that's the only option avail.

I could go futher and say 17 years ago, my frist design job, we didn't even have color monitors. We had the old Apple B/W monitors. You had to view the pantone color books and then use your imagination to see what those colors would translate to on your design.
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A physical reference is the only way to go, no matter what technology is out there.
 
Can anyone tell me if there are any benefits to having the better mbp graphics card when it comes to the adobe suite cs3/4? In particular photoshop, illustrator, flash?
 
sarah3585 said:
Can anyone tell me if there are any benefits to having the better mbp graphics card when it comes to the adobe suite cs3/4? In particular photoshop, illustrator, flash?
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CS4 actually is accelerated via the graphics chip (GPU). Especially Photoshop. This is one of the big features that will eventually work it's way into all apps. Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) will also be GPU dependent.

Also keep in mind that the built-in graphics share memory from the system so that becomes another drain.

-mx
 
motoxpress said:
CS4 actually is accelerated via the graphics chip (GPU). Especially Photoshop. This is one of the big features that will eventually work it's way into all apps. Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) will also be GPU dependent.

Also keep in mind that the built-in graphics share memory from the system so that becomes another drain.

-mx
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Thanks for the response! I'm glad I went for the mbp over the mb.
 
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