Comments on: CS6 Hardware Recommendations now available

By: Lengo

Lengo — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:37:32 +0000

So, now, it’s a 64 bit program but it will run on the minimum spec, Windows XP running at 32 bit. What do I give up if I try to run it on Win XP at 32 bit? Speed? Features? Both?

I want the truth before I spend over $600 for a program that might not work for me. What was omitted that was found in CS5? What was omitted from CS3? Have ay patches been released? Or are the ‘patches’ gonna be named CS7 and I’ll have to cough up an additional $200+ for these?

By: Anton

Anton — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:46:58 +0000

Nudge is still painfully slow with thumbnails in layers pallete on.
https://twitter.com/eskalationdk/status/195070820526206976

[Have you applied the recent 13.0.1 update? --J.]

By: riyas

riyas — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:34:11 +0000

It’s time to get my new system :)

By: Mike McFarlane

Mike McFarlane — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:43:59 +0000

There was me looking for an excuse to upgrade my MBP to a Retina one, but it seems my MBP from last year is still good enough:-/
‘More CPU cores can be slower’ at MPG http://macperformanceguide.com/PhotoshopCS5-performance-cores.html is an interesting read for CS5, not sure if it applies to CS6.

By: Peter K Burian

Peter K Burian — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:09:27 +0000

I went onto the PNY web site and found a list of video cards recommended for Photoshop. The Quadro 2000 series is the most affordable (around $400 in Canada) Quadro 2000 VCQ2000-PB OR VCQ2000D-PB

Any suggestions as to which would be more suitable? http://www3.pny.com/MarketingPromotions/BFP_CS6.aspx?UserID=52347559&SessionID=s{rxKFV44yo4emxAvTcD&Category_ID=445

By: Peter K Burian

Peter K Burian — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:38:22 +0000

P.S. I found this article, Tested Video Cards with CS5 …. I wonder if these same cards would be acceptable, good or very good with CS6?? http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cs6-gpu-faq.html

By: Peter K Burian

Peter K Burian — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:31:44 +0000

An interesting article about the best hardware for running CS6 etc. but I cannot afford a video card that costs $700 (Quadro 400) or $1500 (Quadro 5000). I did a lot of research via Google in the past hour and cannot find any article that provides more affordable alternatives for a suitable display adapter. *** Does someone here have any suggestions in the $200-300 range?*** (My PC came with ATI Radeon HD5670 1GB GDDR5 but I doubt this is the best card.)

By: Jason Nyquist

Jason Nyquist — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:40:18 +0000

Still no mention of Retina Macbook Pro…

When will CS6 support it?

By: PECourtejoie

PECourtejoie — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:48:48 +0000

Adam, as an Icon creator, I guess that you work with many vector shapes. There is currently an issue that QE is aware of when displaying many vector shapes. The current workaround is to set the thumbnails to none in the layers panel, and I understand that it might not be very workable for you.

By: Aaron Spence

Aaron Spence — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:06:31 +0000

Thanks for the update, if Adobe checked out those systems I’d really like to see benchmarks.

If Adobe didn’t check out those systems, I think they should do some benchmarks for their millions of customers. Show us where the real equipment sweet spots are. ie does going from a 6 core processor to dual 6 core processors make any real difference in Photoshop for the massive price increase. (I suspect not)

Not that it matters much for me, I just bought all the bits for a new computer. LR4 + Nikon D800 brought my ‘old’ Quad Core 3.4Ghz, 12Gb RAM system to its knees. Ultimate quality hurts.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:28:32 +0000

Also painfully slow and jerky (just as it was in CS5) is changing or rotating a crop in ACR when a vignette has already been added. Take away the vignette, and, presto, crop is smooth again.

By: dcfreelancelot

dcfreelancelot — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:43:22 +0000

No benchmark comparisons? Where’s the hard data?

By: Adam Betts

Adam Betts — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:25:32 +0000

Nudging in Photoshop CS6 (Mac) is painfully slow no matter how powerful a computer is. I'm hoping it's a bug, not due to hardware limitation? [I'm not aware of that problem, but I've sent a note to QE to get more info. As Adobe is closed this week for the Fourth of July, it may take a while to get a reply. --J.]