Running CS4 and LR on a macbook pro 2.4Ghz

I think so long as it has a 7,200rpm HDD drive and a good amount of RAM (4Gb+) you should be fine with it.

I had a MBP (3.06GHz, 4Gb RAM, 500Gb 7,200rpm) and whilst I can't say it flew it didn't any slower than the powerful Mac Pro I had either... So I would assume a 2.4GHz MBP should handle it without much lag at all although I'm sure someone will chime in with a similar machine.
 
Lightroom runs OK an the Mac Book Pro. OK it does take a bit longer to render the previews than an iMac will, but I tend to use the MPB on location, so I'm willing to put up with the slightly slower operation.

As with Lightroom using Photoshop some things take a little longer, but nothing to get excited about. It tends to be the rendering that takes the time, especial with 24Mb RAW files, but it is easily liveable with.

If you are thinking of doing work in Photoshop on the MacBook, get a mouse. The glass track pad is great but if you are trying to do almost anything except drag and drop it can be a nightmare.

I would suggest though you get at least 4Gb of RAM. 2Gb really doesn't cut it with Photoshop, or Lightroom
 
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I run CS5, LR3 and Capture One on my MacBook Pro 2.26ghz, 8gb ram, 500gb hard disc, obviously while not upto imac or macpro speeds everything is handled OK, If i'm on a big job i will take my 30" Apple Cinema Display and hook it up (runs at full res with correct cable).

All in All I'm happy with its performance.
 
Chappers said:
Lightroom runs OK an the Mac Book Pro. OK it does take a bit longer to render the previews than an iMac will, but I tend to use the MPB on location, so I'm willing to put up with the slightly slower operation.

As with Lightroom using Photoshop some things take a little longer, but nothing to get excited about. It tends to be the rendering that takes the time, especial with 24Mb RAW files, but it is easily liveable with.

If you are thinking of doing work in Photoshop on the MacBook, get a mouse. The glass track pad is great but if you are trying to do almost anything except drag and drop it can be a nightmare.

I would suggest though you get at least 4Gb of RAM. 2Gb really doesn't cut it with Photoshop, or Lightroom
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Yep, was looking at the 4gb version.

martyp said:
I think so long as it has a 7,200rpm HDD drive and a good amount of RAM (4Gb+) you should be fine with it.

I had a MBP (3.06GHz, 4Gb RAM, 500Gb 7,200rpm) and whilst I can't say it flew it didn't any slower than the powerful Mac Pro I had either... So I would assume a 2.4GHz MBP should handle it without much lag at all although I'm sure someone will chime in with a similar machine.
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Cheers!

mho said:
I run CS5, LR3 and Capture One on my MacBook Pro 2.26ghz, 8gb ram, 500gb hard disc, obviously while not upto imac or macpro speeds everything is handled OK, If i'm on a big job i will take my 30" Apple Cinema Display and hook it up (runs at full res with correct cable).

All in All I'm happy with its performance.
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Wonder if the trick there though is the 8gb of RAM! Only want to go to 4gb, aim is to keep this purchase cost low, as iMac covers most PP, this is more for on-location/out of office stuff.
 
Neil

4Gb will be fine with Lightroom, it doesn't grab too much memory. Just ran up Lightroom and from 4Gb I've 2.6Gb left Opening some 24Mb RAW files Lightroom only grabbed a max of 700Mb of memory .

Opening some large (60 Mb) files in Photoshop still left me with several gigs of memory available. So unless you plan to do a lot of Photoshopping I would think 4Gb is fine.

In fact I use the MPB a few months ago linked to a 24" monitor and found it coped well with Photoshop, even with multiple layers being used.
 
i had that one Neil, it was OK for the task, although it can lag a little when cloning and healing.. but not too bad.. other than that it'll be just fine..
 
My MBP is an older 2.33g with only 2GB of ram (will get round to adding more one day.....)

Runs LR3 & CS5 no problem CS5 is massively quicker than CS4 ever was.

I did use a D3X a couple of weeks ago and processing the RAW files was pretty slow going though.

So you should have no problems with your one
 
Got a MBP 2.4 running CS3 and LR2 absolutely no problems. All my images are on a Lacie neil Poulton drive (USB) so that's probably the bottleneck in terms of any lag. It's still lightning quick though - working off the hard drive in the MBP it's tickety boo. Of course, extra RAM is always a bonus but even on 2GB RAM, they run fine.
 
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