I love the Air's form factor, but the lack of a discrete GPU tends to keep me away. We all know that PS heavily relies on the GPU, so I'm wondering if PS seems laggy on the new Macbook Air with the Intel 4000?
In other words, does PS performs well on the Macbook Air over an extended period of time?
"PS heavily relies on the GPU" is a bit of a stretch, it uses open GL and dose not stress that, any card that supports openGL is fine including the Intel 4000. The cpu on the MBA at most a 2.0GHz Intel Core i7 dual core would be the bottleneck. That being said MBA would be a competent solution but would never be my daily computer for the bulk of my work.
The way I understand it, CS5 can utilize as much memory as your GPU offers. The GPU in my main computer has 1GB of memory. I have no idea how much the Intel 4000 has, does it just use system memory?
I guess I'm really looking for someone to share their experience using the MBA. I don't do any editing on my MBP, but it's nice to know it has the power to handle anything I can throw at it, should I need to use it. i'm wondering how much worse the Air performs. If it's not too laggy I would be happy to switch
