(03-26-2018, 09:11 PM)coconut Wrote: it's mainly my photoshop elements program. i'm an artist and i sooort of need it to still work but it's relatively outdated as it is and i'm genuinely surprised it runs as well on 10.10.5 as it does, so to upgrade to 10.13 is like concerning y'know? and from what i've been reading my pse & even newer pse's aren't playing super nice with 10.13 :/
i've been considering bootcamp! but a lot of the research i was doing like cited reduced performance capabilities so i was unsure?? if it was gonna be like worth the strain on my poor laptop. but i'll def like start poking into it again now that i've got a more solid reason.
Depending on what version of PSE you have it could indeed pose a problem, but the latest version (PSE2018) on an intel Mac doesn't have any issues at all.
added system requirements for all PSE's: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/system-requirements.html
Also, Bootcamp will not lower performance of any of your applications in OSX, it will however use some hard drive space so be aware about that.
As an added benefit you will learn that all applications you probably need have a Windows version, which is JUST AS FAST WITH THE SAME FUNCTIONALITY as your OSX version of it. If you are not able to find a Windows version of an application, there usually is a (better/free) alternative. An extra benefit for you would be: the next time you will buy a computer you probably buy a PC instead of a MAC, because for about 80% of the price you will get a better and faster laptop/desktop machine than Apple can offer!
As an example I tried to recreate the most decked out and expensive Apple iMac Pro 2018 (was about $13.750 dollar, store went down while checking)
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JWMvnH > is the PC equivalent, it has a faster processor (Base clock and turbo), faster ram (because of lower CAS Latencies), faster SSD's (especially if you raid-0 them you would have about 6.5GB/s max throughput), A bigger and higher resolution screen (27" 2880p vs 31.5" 4320p). Comes with the widely accepted MS Office 2016 PRO and Windows 10 Pro 64bit and Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018 (couldn't list it because PCpartpicker doesn't have 2018, but the Adobe site says $99.99 USD for a Full License) and if you wanted you could even overclock the CPU and GPU for more speed!
Price: $12390.54 (added the price for PSE2018 to it)
That is about 10% cheaper for a faster/better machine, and that difference goes up the cheaper the systems get.
Check my profile for up to date specs.