My MacBook Pro Sucks
September 10th, 2006 Filed in: Reviews, Mac Jump to commentsI recently bought a new MacBook Pro (my first Apple computer). Yes, I am one of the switchers. I have been a PC user for a while until Apple introduced Intel-based Mac notebook. I was tempted by the MacBook Pro and brought a 15.4-inch display, 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo, with 2GB of RAM (upgraded from 1GB). After couple hours of fun playing around with the Mac OS X, I installed Adobe CS2 and did couple test runs. I was so disappointed on its performance. It even runs slower than my old PC laptop (1.5GHz Centrino with 1GB RAM). That is impossible since the new MacBook has 2.16GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM. I thought it could be my Adobe software issue. So I went to install Macromedia Studio 8 to see how it perform. Same result - slow.
I got frustrated and did a quick search on Google. I found this review from MacWorld. Apparently, neither Adobe CS2 nor Macromedia Studio 8 supports Intel-based Macs (running on Rosetta) yet. Fortunately, Adobe has announced that they will fix this issue to support Intel-based Mac computers in the next versions. So, if you are planning to get a MacBook Pro as your work computer, you’ll be better off waiting until Adobe release the next version of Creative Suite.
Note: Universal application like Safari, iLife and Mail are running fine and smoothy on my MacBook.
Update
June 6, 2007
I’m now using Adobe CS3 on my MacBook and they run very nice. However, I still have problem with the heat issues (extremely hot when charging). I heard the second generation released in Oct 2006 is faster than my first generation and the heat issue is resolved.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
it heapened because the cs2 is made for power pc and to use it on intel you have to use roseta and some aplications doesn’t work well. cs3 is universal
April 6th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Wow! it’s a good design
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Thanuka
March 26th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
My Macbook pro 2.2 sucks too.
They have Lepard, and you cant install Tiger to use t with my Pro Tools 7.4 that suks too.
March 15th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Sounds to me that you dont know much about mac. I have the exact same computer and you just have to setup your photoshop performance. the macbook pro is the fastest laptop on the market! you could (if you werent sane) install windows via bootcamp and it will be the fastest winXP laptop on the market!
i love my mac and yes im a swithcher going on my first year and now after this first year on mac and after using PC’s and windows since 1988! Now i own 3 mac’s and i just love them!
March 6th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
It’s frustrating when this happens, but at least it’s sorted out now and I’m sure you’ve begun to realise just how brilliant the Macbook Pro actually is. If I had the cash, I’d buy one. But I have no reason to (not being a designer) and, as a result, I can’t justify spending so much cash, when I can spend less cash on a PC, get more memory and hard drive space (and a better screen) and just load Linux Ubuntu on it (so I don’t have to suffer with Windows.) Which is precisely what I’ve done… and I’m happy!
March 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The macbook is a superb piece of kit, it just didnt meet your requirements..
Although i would have made a lot of the assumptions you have!
February 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
CS2 is not optimized for the intel based platform. CS3 is. It runs great on the MacBook Pro. Try upgrading to that.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
The Macbook is a great machine. Personally I would not be able to move from Windows to a MAC but those who have tell me that it was well worth it and they would never turn back.
I guess in this case the machine just wasn’t quite what you were looking for. Make sure you look at a lot of reviews before spending your money on a new machine.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
hmm.. nice comments.
February 24th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
PS I forgot tell you my little box is a Shuttle XPC…