This is the same setup as me and Phocus should run fine on this. The reason why my laptop went for repair was that Phocus was becoming very slow. After checking all error logs and everything coming up clean, one of our R&D guys suggesting running another App that also relied on the video card (iPhoto / Aperture).
Both these apps were also suffering serious slowdowns. I then looked into 8600 card and it seems a lot of these were prone to overheating and various other issues.
When I took my MBP into the service centre, seems the graphics card was failing and now the logic board is being replaced!
Funny thing is though, is that apps appeared to run normal.. but intermittent slow downs, especially on GPU aware applications.
So might be worth getting your MBP checked.
David
i actually just had my graphics card replaced about 6 months ago, so i doubt it's that...could be though, i'll check it.
what i noticed with phocus is that it gets slower the longer i shoot. i don't know if the previews slow things down, but at around 500 frames it starts to get really slow and at 800 it's crawling. i thought about changing the folders when doing like 6 to 8 sessions during a shoot, so i'd end up with 8 foders of about 200 pics. it's time consuming though, but maybe faster in the end. would that help or is this a non issue when the graphics card is running correctly?
or would it help to relocate the hasselblad folder i'm shooting to, to the ssd card?
i like the new phocus, but i'm almost faced with giving it up if i can't get around the this speed (lack of) barrier...when the art director asks to see 20 pics from a session, out of about 1000 pics and you need to run through them in phocus, tag em, export them as jpegs so he can do layouts during the shoot and then keep shooting while they're being processed, things just start breaking down... it's no fun.
how can i get more speed with my macbook pro? or will the next generation of books get there?
thanks, kipling
