Anyone running faster Macs? 3 GHz and above?

hotMagichotMagic Member, PRO Posts: 266
edited December 2011 in Working with GS (Mac)
We have some really slow creator performance off and on, and have been considering selling our macbooks to use some 3ghz imacs.
Is anyone running Mac Pro or iMac? Is there a really noticable difference in creator performance over a macbook?

Because the creator frequently maxes out our RAM and processsor. And we are a little too close to release to wait on significant creator fixes.

Thanks!

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  • applaudmobileapplaudmobile Member Posts: 208
    edited December 2011
    Using a 2Ghz iMac with 4gig ram and I don't have any Creator issues personally.

    Sometimes more Ram helps big time. I noticed vast improvements generally when I upgraded from 2gig to 4gig
  • hotMagichotMagic Member, PRO Posts: 266
    We are running 4gb RAM as well. But we have big slowdown and pinwheel on certain things. ESPECIALLY when one person opens the project to work and then a different person goes to edit it, and i suppose it rebuilds the gsuser. Is this something other people see? During that process, there is NO free RAM.
  • ultimaultima Member, PRO Posts: 1,207
    using 3.06GHz iMac. with 4gb of ram too. i have a mac tower with insane CPU power and memory here which is dedicated for motion and 3d works and i don't notice GS runs any faster on it.. but maybe it's cuz i haven't used gs enough on it... it's too expensive to be wasting it's operating life time for something like this... i think your best bet is not to max CPU (just not cost effective, most of the high power macs cost more than a car), it's to max RAM and hard drive speed. i notice GS runs much smoother on my mac air which has solid state hard drive and a faster RAM as well (cpu clock speed is actually slower but it might have more cores i'd have to check) ... your main bottle neck should be your hard drive now... you should look into raid solutions or solid state HDD solution if you really want to upgrade the responsiveness. with either of those upgrade you'll actually notice speed difference.. since i don't believe GS is as CPU intensive as photoshop or some of the 3d/video programs. just my 2 cents.
  • hotMagichotMagic Member, PRO Posts: 266
    On your 4gb ram machine....does it max out? Because we dont use that computer to open anything else (we do all image stuff on the PC) and it has 0 free at some points.
  • calvin9403calvin9403 Member Posts: 3,186
    the Ghz is less important then cores now
    I have 8G ram on my mpb it is awesome
  • deej011deej011 Member Posts: 159
    I think a solid state drive makes a massive difference
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    yeah I think you would be better served by going with a ram upgrade first and possible an SSD upgrade. My wifes air has an SSD but slow GHz and its substantially faster than my MBP.
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  • calvin9403calvin9403 Member Posts: 3,186
    Mac pro...

    Kept dreaming I getting those and want to see how many adobe programs it can run before lag

    And I can tell no difference between the 4g ram and the 6 just using gs
  • deej011deej011 Member Posts: 159
    i have a macbook air i5 1.6 proccessor 2gig ram and i run gamesalad, photoshop, safari and remote desktop to my pc all at once and no lag at all.
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