Photoshop And Macbook Air

If you can go with a MBP... You can run with the air but its not as fast... If your willing to only do one thing at a time you can get by with the air... I like to edit and work on other things then get back to editing...

My laptop is a 2012 MBP quad-core 2.7ghz i7 w/16 gigs of ram and 500gb SSD... everything runs fine... I leave photoshop, chrome,safari, mail and lightroom open most of the time... Just need to watch memory and keep enough free...

My Wife is running a 2014 MBP 2.6GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5 w/8gb of ram and a 256gb SSD... everything runs fine on that as well... just keep the memory free...

the Air's CPU's are slower... and the ram maxes out at 8gb... I use more the 8gb all the time... your usage might vary...

Well the laptop I have now is a acer s3. I can do photoshop with it fine and it has an i5 and 4gb ram. I just really don't like windows. I worked on a Mac a few times and I think it's just so much better.

Like Chris, I would say the MBP instead of the air, just be sure it has the processor to handle the work. If you get one with minimum RAM, install the max (I always use Kingston RAM) of what Apple suggests.

what would be more important, more RAM or a better Processor?
if i just run photoshop and nothing next to it.

If I had to choose, I'd go with the fastest processor I could get and add RAM later. Although Black Friday is quickly approaching and you should find RAM very cheap :)

depends... if the model your looking at has soldered on ram you are stuck with what you got... the retina screen ones are none upgradable...thats why I have 16gb in mime... I would not go less the 8gb...

really all the processors are fast... the slow ones are fast... not as fast as the top of the line i7 but still fast... if a rendering takes a couple of extra seconds you'll be ok... If you work on large files memory quickly becomes a bottleneck...

So I went to the electronic store in my city and asked about the two devices and the lady told me how shit the MacBook Pro mid 2012 is. She said it's impossible to run photoshop on it and that I have to buy the retina one. That can't be true right? I mean people in 2012 also used MacBooks for photoshop. Of course it runs faster now. But I really had the feeling that the lady just wanted my money. I'm sure the 2012 MacBook would be fine for me. I'm not doing this high professional stuff. Im doing raw and some simple things to correct my photos. Is a MacBook retina that cost me 400€ more really worth it for me?

Well here's what I know:

My daughter has a 2006 13" Macbook. I installed max RAM to Apple's recommendation for her model. And if memory serves I put in the max internal hard drive it would run with.

I also copied most of her images/files over to an EXHDD to give her maximum hard drive free space. She's running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8), but her computer came with Leopard.

She uses Adobe CC I believe and does work with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign a lot on that old Macbook for her Graphic Design class assignments. Yes it can get slow if she has too much open, as the CPU/Memory isn't much. Or she doesn't leave maximum free space on it. Yet the fact remains, she does the work without much trouble

So my guess, the lady wanted you to pay more money. I'd suggest looking up reviews on the Macbook Pro 2012 through fav search engine, look on eBay to see what they come with installed and ask questions where you can.

Ok thank you. I'll also go to other electronic stores here in my city and hope I'll get someone honest....
If someone else here knows something I'll be happy to hear about.

Mike Johnson of the theonlinephotographer.com just went with a new mba. You need to scroll down the page a bit to find the posts. I just with with a stock new 13" mb pro retina. Great screen,and do far everything is going well..

Don't be fooled by Black Friday sales. Typically is is when retailers dump outdated technology.

You can always get a better deal on a non-Mac machine. If you are looking to save money, bypass the "cool" upcharge.

Like I said I am running a 2012 MBP... top of the line model from that year...16gb ram,quad core 2.7 ghz processors and 500gb sad drive... its fast enough... just watch your memory usage (you can fill up 16gb of ram when loading a 4gb photoshop pano) and hard drive space (that same pano used 60gb of swap - last time I try a 30 photo pano HDR) and it is fast...

why wherever I go in Stores they tell me photoshop CC 2014 wont work on the macbook air :/
I don't believe so but I don't want to risk spending 1000€ on it. Does anyone here use the 2014 version of photoshop CC? on the MBA

I got a MacBook Air in July and use Photoshop CC 2014 on it with no problem.

Photoshop CC 2014 system requirements and language versions

Windows

Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (2 GHz or faster)
Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1
2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**
OpenGL 2.0–capable system
Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.*

Mac OS

Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
Mac OS X v10.7, v10.8, v10.9, or v10.10
2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
3.2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**
OpenGL 2.0–capable system
Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and access to online services.*

* Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.