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brenly
11-04-2006, 12:18 AM
Does anyone know how Painter runs on the latest Mac systems with the new duo core intel chips? Does it run sluggishly?? Im tossing up between a Sony Vaio or a Macbook. Altho the vaios are niiiice I prefer the Macbook.
tomt
11-04-2006, 02:00 AM
Iterative save is your best bet. (ctrl/command+alt+S) You might want to see if your script of the last file you worked on is available. It may or may not be be able to recreate the image. Sometimes I'll save as a Rif and a psd to guard myself from losing a file.
ewiser
11-25-2006, 01:25 PM
Painter IX.5 works fine on an intel mac. I have it running on my 17" Macbook Pro.
acmepixel
11-25-2006, 09:37 PM
Painter IX.5 works fine on an intel mac. I have it running on my 17" Macbook Pro.



Thanks for that, I'm planning on gettin a new 17''MacbookPro, too, and was wondering if it was enough screen real-estate for painting. Have you hooked it up to a second monitor? I'm curious about the screen refresh response time with dual monitors (built-in and external combined).

I also plan on running CS2 and ZBrush2 on it.
ewiser
11-25-2006, 11:30 PM
Its more than enough. If you want you can run a 30" monitor off the video card also.
I do video editing with Final Cut with it all the time.
acmepixel
11-26-2006, 04:28 AM
So kewl. Now if only the screen/lid would swivel backwards like a SketchBook I'd be in digital heaven.

Thanks.
ewiser
11-26-2006, 12:38 PM
Well you would have to pay more for that.:)
I just use my Intuos tablet. Never had a problem getting use to that.
The problem with the pen on screen versions is they use the 512 points of pressure and you can not rotate the tip. You lose a lot of control with the pen on screen like a tablet pc or a Cintiq.
Yacomo
11-27-2006, 02:48 PM
Works fine on my new 24" iMac :) - performance is better than it was on my Powerbook G4.

Still, I am (im)patiently waiting for Corel to disclose their plans for the next release which will hopefully run natively on the new machines. Since it is now two years since IX was released it will hopefully not be that long...
jedimasterfart
11-29-2006, 06:28 PM
I have a previous generation 17 PowerBook and it runs great. It stands to reason that it would be better on a dual core system.
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