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Photoshop CC on PC laptop
Who out there is running Photoshop from the Creative Cloud on a PC laptop? My MacBookPro is breaking down and I'm thinking of going to a PC, but I'm curious how Adobe CC runs on a PC that's not as beefy as a Mac. Aug 18 14 04:37 pm Link Need specs on laptop to answer the question Aug 18 14 04:42 pm Link I do. It runs fine. But it's a beefy laptop. I use it when I travel but it is not friendly to travel with like a Mac laptop is. It's a royal pain. I think I can safely say that any current ASUS ROG laptop in the $1,200 price range would have no issues. Mine is 3 years old and still has no issues. But then, I'm not running an extraordinary number of layers or anything either. But it works fine with a few layers on a 200-300mb .tiff file, for example. Aug 18 14 04:52 pm Link What do you mean not as beefy as a mac? Typically PS performance is better on PCs than macs, especially dollar for dollar machine-wise. The buzz in the film community is to put iOS on PCs to run CC's premiere, after effects, etc because they are familiar with macs but need the power of a PC. Aug 18 14 05:00 pm Link I have CC on a two-year-old Gateway i3 laptop that has a separate video card. It's not as snappy as my more powerful desktop machine, but it works well enough. You shouldn't have any problems. Aug 18 14 05:11 pm Link Should run fine on any laptop with at least a Core i5 and 8gb ram. An SSD drive will make everything speedier too. Aug 18 14 07:59 pm Link LOL. I'm still using a core 2 proc in a 7 year old PC. Runs all the latest bloat just fine. Cheers! Noah Aug 18 14 10:20 pm Link BillyVegas wrote: Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave. Aug 18 14 10:26 pm Link Photoshop runs perfectly fine on my laptop... Intel Core i7 4700HQ 24gb ram NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M w/ 4gb 256gb SSD, 1TB HD 17" screen Aug 19 14 11:51 am Link Noah Russell wrote: Why would you even want to? I can't stand iOS. Aug 19 14 11:57 am Link BillyVegas wrote: iOS is a mobile OS for Apple devices such as the iPod, iPad, and iPhone. Not for the Mac books or desktops. Aug 19 14 02:59 pm Link Christopher Hartman wrote: I'm going to guess yes on that, probably a brain fart! Aug 19 14 03:08 pm Link I use PC and even though CC works just peachy. That is far from the end of the topic. If you often work with others, Designers, publishers, clients of various other aspects then the PC vs Mac gets trickier. Some other programs might not be so agreeable and can cause file communication breakdowns that can be out of your control. As ignorant as it might sound the moment one your clients ask if your using a pc they will throw their mac happy hands in the air in defeat and yell frustratedly about your silly use something so helpless as a PC. You just became the problem no matter what the issue. PC updates eating one of your other programs seats might just send you running back to Mac. I have never heard of a Mac doing this and when it happens a few hundred bucks or more of your cost savings on PC just went out the window so to speak. I loath both PC and Mac equally just stating some things I have bumped into using PC. Aug 20 14 08:54 am Link Really isn't an issue with PS compared to video editing. The "Gamers" want fast machines so they use Windows based units that are easily upgradeable to newer hardware, where Apple can be slow and constrictive in hardware. You can get into upper end Windows laptops like the Alien Skins or Sagers that can hit $7,500 with things like 3 solid state drives, lots of cooling 4 fans, RAIDs, newer video cards, digital video outputs, etc. Some of their upper-tier laptop units are upgradeable much like a desktop box too. However, Windows can get finicky at times due to it supporting so many different types of hardware. Might need a more techy or geeky head to do so over someone with an Apple OS system. I had an old Apple "The Cube" which had a two-year run and was very hardware limited. I had a lot of software that was only Windows based so I had to go there. Ended up with a Sagar laptop after visiting some computer show in LA where the CGI guys were using them for video work due to better speed against the Apple. I find it works better for printing too with Qimage Ulitmate which is Windows-based only. No sense loading Apple OS (Mac) and then running Windows in Parallels to run it. May have well got Windows to begin with. Aside, the Sagar laptop I have had a LCD screen that began to dim over time (3 years) and it needed a new one according to my x-rite i1 PhotoPro Profiler when I couldn't pull the brightness up enough. I ordered a new LCD panel and installed it myself for $130 or so. Back to new. Aug 20 14 09:17 am Link |
