The Mac folk I think are loathe to admit it but the Mac superiority on
performance over Windows is a "used to was" if it was ever much at all.
For some time now they've been running on basically the same hardware.
It's fun to rag on Microsoft (I like to do it as well) but they've had
some excellent OS designers in their stable and they also own rights to
all the patents from OS/2 development days which includes all of the IBM
patents plus many which they created themselves. Furthermore, much of
what constitutes good OS design has been public domain for a long time.
IBM's basic patents on virtual memory hardware and operating systems
expired about 25-30 years ago.
But that's not to excuse some not so smart design decisions Microsoft
made in the late 80s and is still struggling to overcome. Comes from
employing 22 year old "designers". :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/29/2010 9:24 AM, Moose wrote:
>
> I don't know anything about Macs, other than that they are faster,
> smarter, more artistic and better looking. It does seem to me that
> super levels of all sorts of powers and capacities aren't really
> necessary for pretty high levels of editing.
>
> Editorial Moose
>
>
> On 9/27/2010 1:37 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> My 3 year old (refurbished at that) Dell XPS 410 with Win XP SP3
>> and 4GB RAM (not all usable in Winders of course) and 250GB hard
>> drive runs PhotoShop CS3 just fine on 5D raw files.
>>
>> But that doesn't mean PhotoShop isn't a memory hog. It is. But
>> performance tuning software is a labor intensive business and PS
>> won't get any better until there's a more effective competitor.
>
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