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Thinking about switching to mac
Hello !
My name is John and I recently joined this forum since I'm seriously thinking about switching to a mac and have a lot of questions
Apologies in advance if I posted in the wrong section.
I work as a concept artist for the gaming industry, and I use Photoshop all of the time, you can see some of my art on my online portfolio here: John Wallin Liberto, on-line portfolio
I've always bought the latest hardware for my PC, and it's so difficult to keep up with all the new graphic cards and whatnot, it's got 4 SSD's in Raid 0, and all that, I won't go into PC details, after all, this is a MAC forum.
Whatever I buy for it, I get the feeling of chaos and I'm starting to get irritated by all the different logos on all my stuff, and even though it's a very good machine, it acts up on me now and then and I get to spend hours fixing it.
A week and a half ago, my 2nd child was born, and I guess that was the final reason for deciding that I do not have the time or patience to keep up with my PC issues. I also saw that there's a bunch of new macs coming, the new 12 core for example, as well as a beautiful 27" display, which I would have to get a 200 $ adapter to work on my PC
I work with very heavy photoshop files. My main tools in photoshop is of course, the brushes. After working as an illustrator for nearly 10 years this way, I've understood that the brushes in photoshop are very cpu hungry, as well as the files require fast drives and loooads of RAM.
Even though I use 3D sometimes, I work almost all the time in "2D"
I'm giving you all this info because I have a couple of questions about how photoshop works on Macs.
I go to mac stores but they all have "empty" macs and I can't do anything else but look around the desktop, clicking the calculator etc, so I don't know what Mac I should get for my needs, I know I need one though
Browsing on line, I only get information about how many seconds it takes to load up photoshop etc, and that information is useless if I'm going to have it open for 12 hours a day
Also, most reviewers test Photoshop on their machines by counting the seconds of some filter effect, and because I don't work with filters either, that's also not going to give any info
For high res images I need big brushes, so on my overclocked 4ghz PC, I get an OK flow when testing a 2500 pixel soft brush with 24% spacing. One thing I'm wondering is, how good huge brushes like that sprays paint on the canvas on a mac? What mac could do that, an iMac, even a macbook pro? or do I need a mac pro?
What happens if I don't buy the raid card for my mac, won't I be able to do a raid0 on my main drives and Raid1 on my safe work drive? Do you even do that on a mac? and if you do, Where do I order a specific Raid setup?
Also, if the LED cinemadisplays use a mini displayport, do I need two cards to be able to run two monitors, and is it impossible to get even 3 monitors running without getting this 200 buck adapter?
Atlona :: Products :: Converters & Scalers :: Converters with DisplayPort & Mini DisplayPort output :: Atlona (Dual Link) DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter (USB-Powered)
Does anyone know of any video where I can truly see the performance in photoshop, using the tools I use, (Brush, transform, etc)
If you have an multicore mac pro, how many % of the cores are being used when doing a bunch of strokes with a big brush? Also, is the 64 bit issue on mac fixed, so one can use as much ram as needed in photoshop ? In other words, if you have 32gb of RAM, how much can you dedicate to photoshop in: edit/preferences/performance ?
Maybe you are a concept artist as well and know what the **** I'm talking about ?
Ok I will leave it at that, in short, I'd really want to switch to a Mac, have more time for my family, while enjoying at least 2 of those sleek monitors on a very powerful Photoshop machine
Tank you for reading!
John
Hello !
My name is John and I recently joined this forum since I'm seriously thinking about switching to a mac and have a lot of questions
Apologies in advance if I posted in the wrong section.
I work as a concept artist for the gaming industry, and I use Photoshop all of the time, you can see some of my art on my online portfolio here: John Wallin Liberto, on-line portfolio
I've always bought the latest hardware for my PC, and it's so difficult to keep up with all the new graphic cards and whatnot, it's got 4 SSD's in Raid 0, and all that, I won't go into PC details, after all, this is a MAC forum.
Whatever I buy for it, I get the feeling of chaos and I'm starting to get irritated by all the different logos on all my stuff, and even though it's a very good machine, it acts up on me now and then and I get to spend hours fixing it.
A week and a half ago, my 2nd child was born, and I guess that was the final reason for deciding that I do not have the time or patience to keep up with my PC issues. I also saw that there's a bunch of new macs coming, the new 12 core for example, as well as a beautiful 27" display, which I would have to get a 200 $ adapter to work on my PC
I work with very heavy photoshop files. My main tools in photoshop is of course, the brushes. After working as an illustrator for nearly 10 years this way, I've understood that the brushes in photoshop are very cpu hungry, as well as the files require fast drives and loooads of RAM.
Even though I use 3D sometimes, I work almost all the time in "2D"
I'm giving you all this info because I have a couple of questions about how photoshop works on Macs.
I go to mac stores but they all have "empty" macs and I can't do anything else but look around the desktop, clicking the calculator etc, so I don't know what Mac I should get for my needs, I know I need one though
Browsing on line, I only get information about how many seconds it takes to load up photoshop etc, and that information is useless if I'm going to have it open for 12 hours a day
Also, most reviewers test Photoshop on their machines by counting the seconds of some filter effect, and because I don't work with filters either, that's also not going to give any info
For high res images I need big brushes, so on my overclocked 4ghz PC, I get an OK flow when testing a 2500 pixel soft brush with 24% spacing. One thing I'm wondering is, how good huge brushes like that sprays paint on the canvas on a mac? What mac could do that, an iMac, even a macbook pro? or do I need a mac pro?
What happens if I don't buy the raid card for my mac, won't I be able to do a raid0 on my main drives and Raid1 on my safe work drive? Do you even do that on a mac? and if you do, Where do I order a specific Raid setup?
Also, if the LED cinemadisplays use a mini displayport, do I need two cards to be able to run two monitors, and is it impossible to get even 3 monitors running without getting this 200 buck adapter?
Atlona :: Products :: Converters & Scalers :: Converters with DisplayPort & Mini DisplayPort output :: Atlona (Dual Link) DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter (USB-Powered)
Does anyone know of any video where I can truly see the performance in photoshop, using the tools I use, (Brush, transform, etc)
If you have an multicore mac pro, how many % of the cores are being used when doing a bunch of strokes with a big brush? Also, is the 64 bit issue on mac fixed, so one can use as much ram as needed in photoshop ? In other words, if you have 32gb of RAM, how much can you dedicate to photoshop in: edit/preferences/performance ?
Maybe you are a concept artist as well and know what the **** I'm talking about ?
Ok I will leave it at that, in short, I'd really want to switch to a Mac, have more time for my family, while enjoying at least 2 of those sleek monitors on a very powerful Photoshop machine
Tank you for reading!
John
