What is Adobe Creative SUITE intensive for?

[Stijn Holzhauer]

Hey awesome people,

 

I am helping a class mate out on the search for a laptop.

2015/16 she is going to need a laptop capable of running Adobe Creative Suite.

 

What I am wondering is if Adobe Creative Suite is intensive for the CPU, memory or any of the other components.

 

Do any of you know what component is most used by the software?

 

Greetings Stijn

[Jobbe03]

Ram and CPU mostly.

[Rheinwasser]

depends on which parts of the suite she uses the most.

[ShadowCaptain]

Hey awesome people,

 

HE MEANS ME

 

priority 1 CPU - the faster is, the faster your render time

priority 2 RAM - the more you have, the easier you will manage, I recommend 8gb minimum, 16gb is better

priority 3 GPU - CUDA acceleration is very helpful

[Laputacake]

I'd say Ram, CPU/GPU depending on the program

[Laputacake]

HE MEANS ME

 

number 1 CPU

number 2 RAM

number 3 GPU

And me because it was a plural. Why does no one love me :'(

[ShadowCaptain]

And me because it was a plural. Why does no one love me :'(

 

Aww I love you

[Stijn Holzhauer]

depends on which parts of the suite she uses the most.

 

audio and video editing/recording and photoshop.

[Stijn Holzhauer]

And me because it was a plural. Why does no one love me :'(

we all love you here mate

[Electronics Wizardy]

I use adobe CC lots and it will stress most parts of a system. Almost any modern system will run it but you will hate using it on a low end system.

CPU - Get a quad core intel or better(in a laptop). A dual core will feel slow when doing even more basic tasks

RAM- get 16gb or more if you can speed doesn't matter

GPU- nvidia is best(cuda) get midrange gaming if you don't need quadro features(10 bit color, ecc ram, more relibitly)

HDD - Using a ssd to store files is great but a 2.5 HDD isn't that bad

OS- Windows is faster than mac os X(even on mac laptops) windows 8 is faster than win 7, but i still use windows 7 because i like it more.

 

reccomended laptops

Lenovo y50 its cheap and fast for the price(get the one with the i7 quad core and 16gb, 4k if you want)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834317539

 

Macbook Pro Retina

Its a good laptop. Thin, fast, has thunderbolt, great screen.

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MGXC2LL/A&step=config#

 

Most other gaming/mobile workstations will go great.

[Laputacake]

Aww I love you

 

 

we all love you here mate

<3

[typographie]

Depends on what apps within Adobe CS are being used. CPU should be fairly strong, Photoshop benefits from a fast scratch disk, and you probably want at least 8 GB of RAM.

 

GPU acceleration is available for certain tasks, but not terribly important. At least not in the CS apps I use regularly: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash. My old GTX 460 was plenty when I had it, and my "workstation" (iMac <_< ) at the office has a 640M. So in my experience you don't need much.

[Stijn Holzhauer]

Thank you guys!

[D-Drac]

Brilliant answers, thank you also for clarifying guys for the rest of us.

Does anyone know if you get actual benefit regarding adobe suite software in regards of ECC ram?

Will the error correction work mainly in Illustrator when dealing with large files and if so, in what way?

Is the benefit actually worth investing in it, in your opinion always?

Forgive the simplicity of my questions, I am only a PC consumer grade hardware hobbyist, not much knowledge yet into workstation grade equipment, but I am working on it