Photoshop & 2Gb Ram, Will it be faster?

[cbay]

Hello All!

I am new to MacRumors.com, to be exact this is my first post so if i have done it wrong or in the wrong place, I am extremely sorry.

I want to ask about Photoshop and increasing the Ram on my new wonderful MacBook. I am a photographer so use Photoshop daily in the car so macbook seemed brilliant as I heard Mac's were brilliant for Photo Editing and Video Editing. Photoshop currently runs alot slower than my past Windows Laptop and iBook (I had for a week to play with.) I understand it is because the new Macbooks are Intel Processors and not Power Pc, and Photoshop is not Universal Binary.

But...

If i purchase 2Gb ram which will be a 1.5Gb increase from the default 512mb I currently have in my macbook. Will this increase in Ram help Photoshop run alot quicker. I know when CS3 or the universal binary update comes out it will fly with 2Gb Ram but with CS2 will it help?

Will love to hear everyones opinions...

 

[michaeldmartin]

Rosetta is a ram hog, so yes, it will help. I would recommend running windows on it to edit (or paralells, that'd even be faster)

 

[CrEsTo]

Of course it will help, rosetta uses lots of RAM, so more RAM will improve the performance.

 

[cbay]

Thank you for your help. I was thinking bout installing Windows XP but afraid ill do it wrong and mess my macbook up.

 

[FF_productions]

If you have Photoshop for windows, it would be worth it to use that version than the Non-Universal Mac version. And yes, get that 2 gigs of ram, you will get a significant speed boost, but don't expect blazing fast speed in Rosetta.

 

[XIII]

Thank you for your help. I was thinking bout installing Windows XP but afraid ill do it wrong and mess my macbook up.

You'll do it fine, its a piece of cake.

Photoshop is massively faster with more RAM. Huge improvement.

Welcome to MacRumors!

 

[BAspecialCake]

When you purchase photoshop legally...

It should be bundled with extra memory.

 

[cbay]

Well i prefer to use MAC. We will just have to see... I might even try the version of Aperture i got as i didnt relise at the time i needed 1Gb Ram minimum, so ill try that see how good that is aswell.