Elliotjnewman
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Hi all,
I have a G5 dual 2 ghz 2 gig Ram running Tiger, and I am thinking about changing over to a macbook pro as I am away from home quite a bit... I work in film visual effects and I go on set for photoshoots and my work always give me an underpowered dell with windows media viewer to organise and view hundreds of 17 megapixel image files!
I also use Maya and lots of Photoshop, the latter for home stuff too, I scan 500 mb files from my medium format film scanner, and even my G5 struggles to keep up with photoshop and vuewscan with these programs both having these huge files open.
So basically, what I would like to know is, what are the trade offs I have to take when moving from a desktop to a laptop? And what are the performance differences between my G5 and a new apple laptop (I was looking at the 2.4 15inch macbook pro). Will I see it struggle to scan and open these huge files? And what about the disk speed? If I get the 7200rpm hard drive will it run as fast as a desktop drive in my G5? I also would need to get an extrernal HD as I will need about 500gigs (250 x 2 for backup)
thanks for your help.
I have a G5 dual 2 ghz 2 gig Ram running Tiger, and I am thinking about changing over to a macbook pro as I am away from home quite a bit... I work in film visual effects and I go on set for photoshoots and my work always give me an underpowered dell with windows media viewer to organise and view hundreds of 17 megapixel image files!
I also use Maya and lots of Photoshop, the latter for home stuff too, I scan 500 mb files from my medium format film scanner, and even my G5 struggles to keep up with photoshop and vuewscan with these programs both having these huge files open.
So basically, what I would like to know is, what are the trade offs I have to take when moving from a desktop to a laptop? And what are the performance differences between my G5 and a new apple laptop (I was looking at the 2.4 15inch macbook pro). Will I see it struggle to scan and open these huge files? And what about the disk speed? If I get the 7200rpm hard drive will it run as fast as a desktop drive in my G5? I also would need to get an extrernal HD as I will need about 500gigs (250 x 2 for backup)
thanks for your help.