I am now thhe proud owner...

[deathpixie]

...of a shiny new MacBook. Yes, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] went for the MacBook, mainly because there are no iBooks any more. ;) Not a MacBook Pro since I couldn't afford it, but I also got an iPod Nano included and some other bits and pieces, so in all, I have myself a fairly comprehensive package.

None of which I can really play with yet since I'm going to a friend's birthday party shortly and there's no point strewing the place with bits until I can sit and play for a while. *pouts* However, new computer, that I've been planning to buy for the last year or so and which will be so much faster and less prone to hiccups than Brittney is.

*does the dance of new consumer durable ownership* Whee!

Comments

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

oooh, I don't want to get in the way of Macintosh joy... :( Congrats on the new 'puter!

[deathpixie]

*phbbts* 'tis your birthday and I can unplug myself long enough to help you celebrate. Besides, I have to transfer stuff over, which is what I'm setting up now. Leaves me more time to play tomorrow. :)

[resplendissante.livejournal.com]

Hurray, congratulations. :) I love my PowerBook - it's my baby.

[ferox.livejournal.com]

Macs are sososo sexy. Rawr.

(if I didn't have to buy photoshop again for a new mac, you know I would have one. mmm)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Um. I may have a copy of photoshop CS for macs sitting around. I can send it you if you don't need a legit copy...

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Photoshop is not a Universal Binary, and thus will not run easily or well on the MacBooks.

Redhawk

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Ah. Shit. You're serious? I thought they had a ...thingy in them so that things that used to run on macs would still work on macbooks.

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

That would be the point of making UBs.

Check Adobe's page for more details.

Redhawk

PS - PDF on http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ has the gory details.

The relevant text

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Q. Should I run current Adobe applications, such as Adobe Creative Suite or Studio 8, on Intel-
based Mac computers?
A. Apple has built Rosetta into Mac OS X to dynamically translate existing applications to work on Intel-
based Macs until the manufacturers of these applications can make compatible versions available. Adobe
Creative Suite 2, Studio 8, the components of these suites, and After Effects 7.0 should run under Rosetta
with the exception of one component (see next question). However, please note the following about running
our creative professional applications under Rosetta:
• Performance In general, applications that are not designed to run on Intel-based Mac computers, including
current versions of Adobe’s creative professional applications, may be noticeably slower than they are run-
ning on PowerPC-based Macs. Instead of experiencing much-anticipated speed enhancements, customers
are likely to see some degradation of performance. Customers may mitigate some of these performance
issues, particularly when running multiple applications at once under Rosettta, by having at least one giga-
byte of RAM installed. However, Mac-based customers looking for optimal performance may prefer to run
Adobe Creative Suite 2, Studio 8, and their components on PowerPC systems until we release future ver-
sions of our software as Universal applications.
• Compatibility and other issues Adobe’s creative professional applications have not been extensively tested
under Rosetta, so customers may run into compatibility and other issues running these applications under
Rosetta. We will track and communicate any known issues through our Technical Support Knowledgebase
at www.adobe.com/support/main.html.
• Plug-in support Customers that use third-party plug-ins with Adobe’s creative professional applications will
need to check with the developers of those plug-ins to find out whether they will run under Rosetta.
For more information about Rosetta, please visit Apple’s website at www.apple.com/rosetta.


Redhawk

Re: The relevant text

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Thank you for the links. Everything I've seen seems to say that it'll *probably* workwith the Rosetta emulater (I blanked on the name yesterday) but will be a little slower than on a PowerPC-based Mac and I've read quite a few of the support forums, too. *grins* Given that I've tried to use photoshop on G3 macs with the bare minimum of RAM needed to get it to load at all (the results were, unsuprisingly, somewhat painful), it's probably going to be an improvement on what I'm used to, but I don't need it to be fast. :)

Thank you for the links, though.

Re: The relevant text

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

In short: It won't be pretty, and forget about plug-ins, but Photoshop CS _should_ run.

For varying definitions of "run", of course.

Redhawk

Re: The relevant text

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

*nods* Thanks.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

*grins* Yay! I'm planning on getting one very shortly, since mine is actually than Britney was. :)

I played with one in the shop and they're SO FAST. And you can have multiple things open without it giving up in disgust.

GO YOU!

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

MacBook FTW!

I'm now officially jealous! So what size screen did you get?

Specs, woman! Teh geeks demand specs!

;)

Redhawk

[merhawk]

Welcome to the non-crappy side of computing! I adore my iBook.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

I ♥my iBook, best computer I've ever had.