izzit possible to upgrade a graphic card on the 2.0ghz macbook??

nope...
it's integrated...
it's not even possible to upgrade the graphics card on the mbp...=)...

It's a NOTEBOOK for gawd's sake!

How many notebooks (mac or otherwise) have upgradeable graphics cards?

Hey mate,

I noticed that you have a MacBook Pro. Do you do your photography touchup on the MBP? How is the performance of Photoshop CS2/CS3 on the MBP? Compared to your Intel E6600 PC.

I am contemplating whether should I just upgrade my desktop computer or get a MBP. I am leaning closer to a MBP as I would like to be able to touch up photos on the go as well as I do some sort of video editing (mostly slideshows).

Any help would be great.

Anyone else has any comments as well?

Thanks!

oh one more thing i need to know. Since the macbook has a 1280 by 800 resolution, does that means it can play 720p and 1080i videos ?

@Mavik Photoshop CS2 will run slower compared to a PC because it is not universal. Running it on the MBP or MB will force a Rosetta emulation and it will slow down the process. (I believe I got this right)

Photoshop CS3 will be rather fast since it is universal. As usual, photo and video editing is GPU and RAM intensive. So the more RAM you have on the MBP, the better it is.

Personally, with the price you are paying for the MBP, you can get a really, really good desktop. But with the MBP, you are paying for the mobility and the fact that Mac OS X is quite safe. No more worries about spyware or viruses.

I am using the MB at the moment but using GIMP so no kedai foto to test out

@munky It can play 720p videos. Not too sure about 1080i...

i havent tried cs3 on my mac...
but i use flash, dreamweaver, fireworks....n all of them work well in rosetta and also in parallels...
quite fast and comparable to the speed of my e6600 rig...

Sorry to sound quite noob but what is GIMP?

It's a free or opensource photo-editing application, its interface like photoshop.
http://www.gimp.org/

@Mavik,
I don't use CS2 much on my MBP but i find it a little 'slow'. Also, sometimes the application closes by itself (especially if you're using Photoshop & Illustrator together).

I haven't begun exploring CS3 on my MBP but I been told CS3 works more efficiently on the Intel-based Macs in comparison to CS2 *shrugs* If boot up time for each application is going to help, I'll do a comparison and post it up here for you - let me know

Yeah because Photoshop CS3 is coded with Universal Binary so Mac doesn't need to use the Rosetta Emulation to run it. Been scouring around to see the difference of Photoshop CS3 on a Macbook and a Macbook Pro.

You might be able to find some benchmarks on www.barefeats.com

I just got my hands on my own MacBook Pro 15" 2.4GHz. It's a lovely machine and I spent a couple of hours getting used to it and Mac OS X last night.

went to pcfair and saw macstudio there. anyway, took a leaflet of the MBP. then went to KLCC and saw machine is opened. went in to have a chat with the sales about the availability of the MBP. then saw their leaflet.

and to my suprise, the machine leaflet mentioned that the 2.2Ghz MBP is giving a 1x2gb RAM. asked the sales person there and she said should be true... but the 2.4 Ghz spec is giving 2x1GB RAM.

funny... hopefully it's true though

Wow thanks for the link. That is exactly what I was looking for to make a comparison

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Added on August 5, 2007, 10:17 pmI checked the Machines website and found that the 2.2GHz MBP is given 1x2Gb of RAM as well.
http://www.machines.com.my/product_macbookpro_spec.php


This post has been edited by Mavik: Aug 5 2007, 10:17 PM

wow... if it's true wan... then save alot of money leh. no need to buy 2x2gb to max out RAM...

the thing is, i told them if i placed an order now, when will i expect to receive the MBP... they said probably 4 weeks, but cant confirm. cheh!

Yeah currently the 15" MBPs are out of stock. I talked to my friend working at the Mac shop at 1 Utama and he said the last guy who ordered the 15" MBP waited about a month. At this rate, I would rather wait for Leopard to be released in October and consider the MBP then

but the sales in machine told me that apple wont sell MBP with leopard in oct. you probably need to wait for a couple of months before MBP comes with leopard...

what the ... ?

how true is this ?

Sales assistants won't know anything. They aren't going to the be the best-informed of people regarding when Leopard is going to be installed on the MBP.

Malaysia is not like other countries which actually have Apple Store's instead of just Apple Certified Reseller's. This means one of two things, we don't have much stock since the shops are on their own and are not guaranteed a certain amount of units AND that the latest and greatest doesn't always get passed to us immediately. Generally it takes about 2 weeks when something is announced over in the US to the time it arrives here on our shores and we can actually buy it. And about 4 weeks before we can just walk into the store and get it off the shelf without pre-ordering. The thing is, if you do buy an MBP which has Tiger while over at US MBP's are already being pre-installed with Leopard, Apple will give you a free CPU upgrade pack. If you don't get one, demand one. That is standard procedure.