{"id":15796,"date":"2009-04-14T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/a-note-about-macbook-pro-graphics.html"},"modified":"2009-04-14T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:43:32","slug":"a_note_about_macbook_pro_graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/a_note_about_macbook_pro_graphics\/","title":{"rendered":"A note about MacBook Pro graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is an incredibly specific thing to blog about, but as it recently affected me, I thought I&#8217;d mention it: If you&#8217;re using Photoshop CS4 on a new MacBook Pro (as I am; thanks, &#8216;Dobe), I recommend turning <b>on<\/b> the beefy GPU (graphics card) you paid for.<br \/>\nThe new MBPs ship with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/graphics.html\">two GPUs<\/a>, and they default to running the lower-power embedded GPU that&#8217;s also in these machines.  You have to switch on the faster one by choosing System Preferences-&gt;Energy Saver, then setting Graphics to &#8220;Higher performance.&#8221;  Doing so requires logging out of the machine&#8211;kind of a drag.<br \/>\nI made the switch, and I see a noticeable difference in the smoothness of rotating the canvas &amp; zooming.  There&#8217;s a <i>very<\/i> large difference when running the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/pixelbender.html\">Pixel Bender Gallery plug-in<\/a>.  In terms of battery life, I haven&#8217;t been able to notice a difference.  Apple.com shows the higher-power GPU taking battery life from 8 to 7 hours.  I wasn&#8217;t getting anything like 8 hours of life using the slower GPU (more typically 3-4 with WiFi on, maybe 5-6 with it off), so I&#8217;d read those number in percentage terms (i.e. the faster GPU should cost you something like 12% battery life).  Were I taking a cross-country flight, I&#8217;d switch off WiFi &amp; revert to using the lower-power GPU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is an incredibly specific thing to blog about, but as it recently affected me, I thought I&#8217;d mention it: If you&#8217;re using Photoshop CS4 on a new MacBook Pro (as I am; thanks, &#8216;Dobe), I recommend turning on the beefy GPU (graphics card) you paid for. The new MBPs ship with two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}