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Which Mac Do You Use to PP?

I use the MacBook Pro (specs in the signature below) - software I use is Lightroom but Photoshop CS3 for the final processing.

We'd all love a 30" display but for me I believe the money is better spent on decent glass than a new display. When I am travelling I wouldn't have the big display with me, but not having the display, I'm used to my 15inch on my notebook and it does the job.
 
Processing D200 RAWs with Aperture 1.5 and CS3 quite happily on Macbook 2.2 with 4Gb RAM (+external screen when at home). Have both apps open at same time and more happy with the speed.
I used to use Nikon Capture (v3, not NX) and found it to be one of the slowest, most resource hungry programs going - it's not even installed now!
 
Use my MBP, while I'm outside or just finished with the photo session by using aperture, and photoshop cs3.
 
Binford said:
What Mac do you guys use to Post process your photos? I've found that while it's acceptable, the general performance of my mac book pro hasn't been satisfactory, especially for raw files. I primarily use CS3 and Nikon Capture NX. I do plan to begin using Aperture 2 once I get my hands on it, but considering a hardware upgrade before that. I figured that desktops are always faster than laptops in numerous ways... would a move to a 2.4ghz imac or mac pro be a very significant increase in workflow speed? Would it be worth the money?


Thank you very much, and best regards.
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The big bottleneck in your system is the hard drive. Get an external Firewire 800 hard drive (I recommend a WD MyBook Studio). You will notice a huge improvement over the internal MBP drive (at least I have). Also, max out your ram.
 
2.2 Mac Book Pro, with 4GB of RAM, for Lightroom and Photoshop CS3.

Also a couple of external Western Digital USB hard disks for additional data storage.

I find this combination plenty fast enough for my image-editing and post-processing needs...
 
zioxide said:
The big bottleneck in your system is the hard drive. Get an external Firewire 800 hard drive (I recommend a WD MyBook Studio). You will notice a huge improvement over the internal MBP drive (at least I have). Also, max out your ram.
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is the firewire 800 a considerable increase in speed over a usb2.0 drive?
 
I used a 2009 Mac Mini running Lion (10.7.5) RAM maxed out and an updated HD.

Edit: Ha! I followed a link to this thread from another regarding the PP jailbreak. Kindly disregard :)
 
2011 Macbook Pro 13 inch, Core i5 2.3 GHZ 16GB Ram..

I also have a crappy Asus 24 Inch monitor..

Waiting for the new iMac Retina 27 with Skylake to come out..
 
21" iMac from late 2012. i5 processor, 16GB RAM 1 TB Fusion Drive. Running an NEC Spectraview 241 for colour accuracy. Those iMacs are not good for colour work. Having one next to a professional monitor really shows that.
 
z31fanatic said:
Way to bump up a 7 year old thread.
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Well seeing as though you've only been here four months, I'm gonna assume you haven't replied already.

Matter of fact, neither have I. So here goes:
• Last of the good 15" MacBook Pro's (Hi-Res AntiGlare) 2.7GHz i7/16GB/2TB HDD & 256GB SSD
• Intous Pro (medium sized)
• A rather crappy 24" Philips monitor

Looking at grabbing a Dell UltraSharp shortly. After I pay for the new background system I just ordered.
 
Working on my photography I am depending on my 2012 15" rMBP base model and trusty old Wacom Intous 2 tablet medium size. Also I have a cheap 22 inches LCD monitor that is in the storage with Windows 7 Pro based desktop PC. Oh all of pictures are stored on Hitachi 500GB external drive.
Also have a Canon Pixma Pro 100 printer. Is that too much?
 
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