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crisha
I'm a newbie on mac books, i just bought a 13.3 inch macbook pro last week. I switched from windows to mac and everything seems to be going great. I love the apps and everything. But there's one thing i need to know, i used to have photoscape on my old computer before (windows), now that i've switched to mac, i was wondering on what kind of photo editing software should i download thats compatible with MAC OS X thats close to the features they have on Photoscape. If yes, where could i download a free version of it?
Answer
Gimp is pretty reliable from what I hear, I never try it since I got photoshop, but when it comes to free, I hear Gimp is one of the best things to use.
Here's the link to D/L it.
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html
Gimp is pretty reliable from what I hear, I never try it since I got photoshop, but when it comes to free, I hear Gimp is one of the best things to use.
Here's the link to D/L it.
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html
Is my macbook broken or should I upgrade my RAM?
Cosmo
10 months ago I received a late 2011 13" macbook pro, i7, 4gb RAM and 750gb hard drive. Ever since I started using my laptop it has been slow and laggy. I have the app Freememory and I rarely have more than 1gb free of 4 gb. I never run more than three apps at a time because it becomes unbearable, usually I only have safari running. I always quit apps I'm not using. I have final cut pro, appature, pages, keynote geek tool and stuff. Everyday I deal with the beach ball, or ball of death etc. Most of the time I have to force quit apps. Apps take sometimes longer than ten bounces to open, apps like mail and iTunes. I don't try to do everything very fast, I just let it sort itself out usually.
Every time I use my computer it has a breakdown where the screen starts flickering or occasionally green squares and pixels appear on the screen.
My computer always takes about 10 secs after I open it to start working.
Despite all this I have only maybe once or twice had apps crash, and I don't think my computer itself has ever crashed.
I am planning to put in 16gb of ram because I can't go on like this, I do video editing, music engineering, photo editing, movie ripping and photoshop.
I have apple care protection plan on my laptop.
Is there anything I can do or shall I talk to apple?
Answer
"video editing, music engineering, photo editing, movie ripping and photoshop"
I am concerned that you are using a large amount of memory and processing power. FreeBSD (the root of MacOS) and other Unix OSs like it, are very capable at sharing processing power and memory between applications. However, in loaded conditions, as you are describing, you can have some serious issues.
You can try a few diagnostics to get a feel for things. If you are comfortable at the prompt, tools like "top" and "procrank" can tell you which applications are using a lot of memory.
But the best choice is this: completely reboot the machine, and then see how it responds, without doing any of the other apps (video editing, music engineering). Is safari responsive under those conditions?
Try to determine if the apps run at powerup. Are they already taking up your memory as soon as they load?
This can lead you to the answer... which I may be able to guide you towards, below.
1) If the device is sluggish after a full reset, but the apps that you are using are NOT preloaded, then there is a serious problem with the machin.
2) if the device is sluggish after a full reset, but the apps ARE being preloaded to some degree, then yes memory can help.
3) if the device is very fast after a full reset, but then after using a few of your key applications it becomes sluggish again then yes, memory can help.
Hope that helps. I've worked with systems that operate under high load, and it is not fun. Memory CAN help, but there are also some applications that will take as much memory as you can give. If you determine that you need memory, and go that route, only to find that now with 10 Gigs of RAM you are still losing your memory, you need to do a better job of finding out WHICH applications are taking the memory, and switching vendors for those apps.
Good Luck!
"video editing, music engineering, photo editing, movie ripping and photoshop"
I am concerned that you are using a large amount of memory and processing power. FreeBSD (the root of MacOS) and other Unix OSs like it, are very capable at sharing processing power and memory between applications. However, in loaded conditions, as you are describing, you can have some serious issues.
You can try a few diagnostics to get a feel for things. If you are comfortable at the prompt, tools like "top" and "procrank" can tell you which applications are using a lot of memory.
But the best choice is this: completely reboot the machine, and then see how it responds, without doing any of the other apps (video editing, music engineering). Is safari responsive under those conditions?
Try to determine if the apps run at powerup. Are they already taking up your memory as soon as they load?
This can lead you to the answer... which I may be able to guide you towards, below.
1) If the device is sluggish after a full reset, but the apps that you are using are NOT preloaded, then there is a serious problem with the machin.
2) if the device is sluggish after a full reset, but the apps ARE being preloaded to some degree, then yes memory can help.
3) if the device is very fast after a full reset, but then after using a few of your key applications it becomes sluggish again then yes, memory can help.
Hope that helps. I've worked with systems that operate under high load, and it is not fun. Memory CAN help, but there are also some applications that will take as much memory as you can give. If you determine that you need memory, and go that route, only to find that now with 10 Gigs of RAM you are still losing your memory, you need to do a better job of finding out WHICH applications are taking the memory, and switching vendors for those apps.
Good Luck!
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