Ah! Mention of Rosetta reminds me that I've been forgetting that
PhotoShop for Apple is written for a PowerPC processor and not the
Intel. I think I'm suddenly a lot less inclined to go there.
Chuck Norcutt
Stephen Scharf wrote:
> 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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