Hello, I am interested in buying a new Macbook Pro but want to run Adobe CS package. Which computer do you recommend?

Hello, I am interested in buying a new Macbook Pro but want to run the latest Adobe CS package. Which computer do you recommend for best speed and perfromance?

Depending on the software you'll use - I doubt you'll be an expert on After Effects and use Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver like a pro (you may be an exception) - I have a 13" Macbook Pro simply because the 15" lacks the portability of the smaller size - the Retina 15" is alot lighter and if you can afford it - go for it!
I bought the Macbook Pro and replaced the 4GB of RAM with 8GB of RAM and replaced the HDD with an m4 SSD from Crucial. The SSD really makes a difference in app start up speeds, loading times and bootup speeds. The RAM ensures apps operate smoothly and everything is snappy. Since getting an SSD, I would say the performance of Photoshop and Illustrator is vastly improved. I can have both open whilst surfing the web, checking my email and even using Dreamweaver every once in a while. Multitasking is great.
To conclude, depedning on your price range, buying a £999 Macbook Pro and swapping the HDD for an SSD and the 4GB of RAm to 8GB, will ensure better performance than both 15" Models. However, buying a 15" Model and maxing out the specs, would beat the performance of a maxed out 13".
I have a 13" and it runs faster than it was when I first purchased it last year. Photoshop opens in 2/3 seconds and performance is great.
Hope this helps.
P.S. If you have the money, get the 15" Retina. If not, max out the 13" if you still want portability. Otherwise, get the 15" and max that out if you feel performance is poor.
The reason I say Retina, is because the maxed ram and SSD is already installed and saves alot of hassle aswell as the slimmer design and lighter weight.

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yes you can do it and not void the warranty. Those are the only hardware changes that Apple permits. Instructions on how to upgrade the ram and remove and replace the hard drive are even included in the owners manuals for MacBook Pros.

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You can purchase a Mac customized to your preference from the Apple Online Store. It will be manufactured almost immediately, and can be delivered to you in as little as two or three days, depending on your location. You may also choose from a number of Macs available in the Refurbished and Clearance store.
If you want to purchase a Mac and have it immediately, you are limited to what an Apple Retail Store or reseller has in stock.

I buy a new MacBook pro but i don't want lost any documents...

I buy a new MacBook Pro but don't know how i can transfer all my pics and documents

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2295
And a Special thanks to Kappy for taking the time to compile this information.
This should fix you up.
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I have a new macbook pro and want to purchase adobe photoshop. How can I do that with apple retina display compatibility? Does anyone use photoshop on your mac?

Adobe is moving from the purchase of a license for their software to the renting of it. I'm old school so I'd prefer a perpetual license. But you already have a subscription to Illustrator so I guess it'd be advisable to look into whether expanding the subscription to include other software will save you some money. Also I remember something about Adobe adding features to its Cloud version which aren't also added to the licensed version and a different way of handling updates and upgrades. Indeed, Adobe states that CS 6 has reached the end of the road. So if you're going to stay with Adobe, you may very well be stuck.
I'd suggest spending some time in the Adobe Communities. You'll likely find people complaining about choices they've made that you'll have to make too. Let them be the beta testers.

Upgrading to new MacBook Pro but want to keep date added

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My 2008 MBP is coming to the end of its life (that or I just want a new one!) and I want to a new MBP. However I'm a DJ a rely heavily on my itunes library, the biggest feature being the date added column and then secondly playlists. Could someone tell me how I can migrate my Itunes library to the new MacBook keeping the date added (and ideally all other data including playlists, tags, ratings) all in tact?
Many Thanks
Barney

Yes, everything will be the same. Just make sure you take the folder named iTunes and drop it into ~/Music. When you launch iTunes it will all be there.

If I were to buy a new MacBook Pro now, would it run Mavericks?

... because there is no way I would want it to run that incredibly ugly looking new Mac OS called Yosemite!
I would even consider going back to a PC laptop before I considered any computer with a UI that looked like Yosemite.

I just bought one but it is still in transit. I bought it a couple hours after Yosemite was announced and am really hoping that it comes with Mavericks. I had actually bought it before the release but had to cancel and reorder to change the shipping address because nobody was going to be around when it was due to arrive.
In 2011 I bought a MBP that came with Lion and I was able to go back to Snow Leopard as the hardware had originally been built for that. I would guess that you could back up to 10.9 on a mid-2014 MBP even if it came with 10.10.
This shows that they shipped originally with 10.9.4:
Mac OS X versions (builds) for computers
And have had no firmware updates:
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Please Apple, I hope you shipped my machine with Mavericks so I don't have to use the abomination that is Yosemite.

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I suggest you buy the notebook with the standard drive and the standard RAM, if you were thinking about upgrading the RAM.
You can replace the original drive with a SSD at a lower cost then what Apple charges You can also buy RAM for a MUCH lower price.
TRIM:
Lion only supports TRIM natively when used with a Apple SSD. BUT, REALLY BUT, You can enable TRIM support yourself on the SSD you install. I have a SSD in my MBP that I installed and I have enabled TRIM support on it.
Are SSDs reliable? As far as I can tell Yes they are. I have one in my Win 7 desktop PC for the last 9 months, No Problems. I have a SSD installed in my Dell Win 7 Notebook for the last 1.5 months, No Problems. I have a SSD installed in my MBP for the last month+, No problems. There are reports of SSDs failing but there are also report of standard hard drive failing all the time.
I used Intel 320 series SSDs in my 2 Windows PCs and a Kingston V200 SSD in my MBP. I switched to the Kingston because of the price and it runs on the higher SATA III bus speed, 6GB, where as the Intel 320 series only run at the 3GB speed, SATA II.

Buying a New Macbook Pro (Con't.)

Hi i am interested in buying a new macbook pro this summer, please help me.
Can i buy from the online store and then go to pike it up by person as i live in an unsupported country for apple, and i taught to travel to UK and then pike it from there.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1860048
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Although I'm from the US, I typically go out of the country for 5-6 months of the year. Fortunately, I have AppleCare Protection plan and an authorized apple dealer nearby me. However, let me assure you that unless you go to an apple store for repairs, you wont get the unparalleled quality of service or support that you would otherwise get. I'm not saying that there are not excellent apple authorized dealers out there, it's just the one near me isn't that great. In fact, I try to hold off on all repairs until I reach the homeland.
But still, in your case, if this is the only option than by all means take it. Just be vigilant of repairs claimed, keep you receipts, and check your MBP when it gets back for any damage not caused by you.
This is in the worst extreme. I'm sure, for the most part, most 3rd party service centers are great.
Good Luck!

I want to buy the new macbook pro, I was wondering if I can sell my macbook back to apple?

I am interested in getting the new macbook pro, but I have a white macbook since 2007. Can I sell it back to Apple? And if so, where do I go to see how much I would get for it and if I can?
Thank you!

Apple does have a Reuse and Recycling Program. They may offer you an Apple store gift card in return for your computer, but the amount is likely to be much smaller than you could get by selling it on your own. I have had success with selling older Macs on CraigsList.
Best of luck.

I want to buy a new Macbook pro 15", but I don't like Lion, I want Leopard installed, is there any issues with drivers or any other I should be aware of?

I want to buy a new Macbook pro 15", but I don't like Lion, I want Leopard installed, is there any issues with drivers or any other I should be aware of?

Hello, I've tried Lion from the day they released to last week I got my computer formated and with leopard again, on my iMac 24" from early 2009 2.9 Ghz core 2 duo, and I have installed 8 Gb of memory, and i have some complains about it, there are some cosmetic issues but mostly I'm concerned about issues bellow the hood, as I'm a stock trader and I depend completly from my computer's performance, let me explain:
Superficial issues:
1. They took off "spaces" and I liked it.
2. I dont use the magic mouse, I need a more accurate mouse for my charts, and it seems they built the entire OS assuming you would use the magic mouse for gestures, scroll, etc to try to mimic in some way the Ipad and Iphone functions, but what if you arent using it like me?
3. I never used that little rocket icon that makes all your apps appear and that could be one of the "improvements on Lion", at first sight it looks nice and slick, but if you try to use it and make it part of your daily use, you would find it is useless, it is a pain to try to arrange it the way you like it, so I rather use the spotlight to search for my apps, its faster.
Now the MOST important, 'performance':
1. It completly suffocate my computers hardware Leopard much more lighter, beggining from the start up that taked almost 1/3 or twice the time, and I think Lion has some bugs bellow the hood, i was doing my normal stuff, some apps running and everything, and suddenly I started to feel the computer a little slow, safari taking forever to open the pages for example, and I opened the activity monitor to see what was going on, and it was there, I was using 4 or 5 gb from my memory, and CPU making insane peaks, and Im using 2.46 gb as im writing it doing exactly the same stuff, (but Im happily using Leopard now), and it wasnt once, as i told before, I used lion since the day they released it and happened several times until it drove me nutts. But leopard not problem in that regard at all, Never.
hope this helps, and hope some apple guys read that because lion resulted in a big disappointment for me.

If I were to buy a new macbook pro now would it be delivered with yosemite already installed?

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If I buy a new macbook pro...

hello to everyone... I'll start saying that I'll buy my first mac finally after all these years looking for one (kind of difficult living in Perú.. a MBP that costs $2000 in USA, costs $2800 in Perú, so looking for someone to travel and buy it is kind of hard).
As I was saying.. I'm planning to buy a new Macbook Pro (the one launched on February 2008) and I want to know if I will have these problems that I've read in this forum:
- keyboard unable to use or failing a lot (lots of people had it after some upgrade).
- sleep mode failing.. some people had this too, the computer can't wake from sleep mode.
has anyone had any problem with the new macbook pro's??
thanks for answering!

- keyboard unable to use or failing a lot (lots of people had it after some upgrade).
The much maligned upgrade is a misnomer, it was really an software/firmware update and it only applied to previous releases of the MBP. The Feb'08 MBP does not need such an update.
- sleep mode failing.. some people had this too, the computer can't wake from sleep mode.
Same thing, this is mostly present in older MBP's.
has anyone had any problem with the new macbook pro's??
Like any new and complex piece of equipment, there are bound to be lemons in the mix. And some "problems" are more like undocumented or ill conceived design decisions. For example, the infamous keyboard problem, where certain keys don't respond at first try. In my case, the Caps Lock key takes a wee bit longer to respond than the rest of the keys. This seems to be a design "feature" and not a bad key switch: since many people complained that they were having typing errors cause the Caps Lock caught inadvertently, apparently they added a little delay so you wouldn't accidentally brush against the key. However, for a trained touch typist, this is a major PITA cause it breaks your typing rythmn, something the designer (probably not being a typist) completely overlooked.
So you moan and complain loudly in the appropiate places (Feedback or Applecare) and hopefully the company will eventually listen and issue an update. These forums are not the appropiate venue except for blowing off steam, since few if any decision-making Apple employees come here.

Should I buy a new Macbook Pro 13 inch or Macbook Air 13 inch?

Hi,
I was wondering if I should buy the new Macbook pro 13 inch, or keep my old 2010 1.4 C2D Macbook Air. I am not satisfied with the tiny 64GB SSD that my current Macbook Air has, because just a few weeks after I had done a clean reinstall of OSX Lion, the whole disk almost filled up. The one thing I do like about the Macbook Air, however is the speed of the SSD. Its really quick, and it boots in under 20 seconds. The Air didn't have many performance issues (other than overheating like crazy after playing a few graphics-intensive games).
If I were to buy a new Mac, my price range would be from $1200-$1500. I plan to use Garageband/iMovie frequently for making Youtube videos/school projects, and store a large music library. I also plan to do some moderate gaming and run Windows 7 in Bootcamp/Parallels. I don't plan to take it around much, but I don't want to have to weigh down my backpack in case I have to. My two options now would be the new Macbook Pro 13 inch or the new Macbook Air 13 inch. Could anyone give me a suggestion of which computer to buy?
Thanks!

I went through this same thing when I purchased my first Mac 3 days ago, also between the 13 inch MBA and MBP. I ended up deicding with the 13inch MBP, here's why:
1. More hard drive space, yes it may not be an SSD but more space is more space. I have also heard about people taking out the disc drive and adding an SSD in its place, so there would be an option.
2. The disc drive, I rarely do use it but just in case it's there and easier than carrying around an external.
3. Upgradability, I plan on keeping this Mac for a while because I spent so much on it. On a MBP I can upgrade the internal parts such as the hard drive and RAM. On a MBA everything is soldered together so what you buy is what you stick with.
4. Ethernet port, this is one that could be gotten around by an adapter but I still took it into consideration. Not everywhere has wifi yet including my work where every computer is hard wired.
5. Bootcamp, as well I plan to run Windows 7 on mine and Windows 7 takes a good amount of space so this is another spot where the larger hard drive of the MBP comes in handy. You could always have an external hard drive and run Windows 7 off of that on an Air but then you would have to have it always plugged in when you wanted to run Windows 7.
About me, I am a student so I had a lot to think about and read a lot of reviews online before I decided on my MBP but I am glad I decided on this over an Air. It may be a few pounds heavier also but in the long run for me I think the Pro will be better, I do plan on adding more RAM in the future as software becomes more memory intensive. With you're pricerange being 1200-1500 the 13inch MBP with the i7 processor may be one to look at. From Apple with their student discount, if you are one, you get $100 of plus a $100 giftcard. At BestBuy (where I got mine) the price of the i7 13inch MBP is 1,424.99 and if you're a student you get $100 off but no giftcard. I got the i5 13inch MBP because I don't need an i7.
In the end it all comes down to what works for you, but I hope I was able to help you some.

After buying a new Macbook pro and opening an iTunes Match account most of my music is grayed out on my Mac and iPhone. I have not turned on iTunes match on my iPad and all my music is fine. How do I get my music back????

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