That might have been the case up until OS X 10.4.8. Photoshop got a
35% speed increase running under Rosetta
emulation with ten forty-eight on Intel Macs. I ran some benchmarks
on my MacBook 2 GHz Core Duo using Photoshop CS under Windoze via
Bootcamp
or under Rosetta emulation with 10.4.6, back in May when I got it:
My Dual Processor 2 GHz G5 with 1 gig RAM (my desktop machine): 29
seconds (with Safari open)
My MacBook Core Duo 2 Ghz (512 Meg RAM) running Win XP via Bootcamp
and PS CS: 27.7 seconds
My MacBook Core Duo 2 Ghz (512 Meg RAM) running OSX PS CS2 under
emulation with Rosetta: 38 seconds
With 10.4.8, that difference would go down quite a bit running PS CS2
under emulation in Rosetta due the Speed increase
from the new OS.
http://www.macworld.com/2006/11/firstlooks/rosetta/index.php?
lsrc=mwtoprss
FWIW, running XP in Parallels is roughly 25-30% slower than natively
via BootCamp.
FWIW, Lightroom runs as a native app on all MacIntel models.
-Stephen.
On Nov 19, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Listar wrote:
> From: "Tom Scales" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: **SPAM** Re: iMac for Workflow
> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:25:15 -0500
>
>
> And remember, there isn't a native CS2 for Intel Macs yet, so this
> version
> runs through a translation layer to the old code. I'd be willing
> to bet the
> Windows version running under Parallels would actually run better!
>
> Tom
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