[Leica] re: OT - Best PC Setup for Photoshop Question

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Must be nice to be able to run a Mac Intel native version of Photoshop.

I just hope Photoshop gets its memory handling fixed. On a Mac (for
sure) with 4G of RAM Photoshop periodically grinds to a halt as it
does some wild/wierd memory management thing. "Oh, it's UNIX" doesn't
cut it.

But all software systems designed to be cross-platform have to have
issues like this. I know this. I just want them resolved sooner rather
than later.

Shifting back into (trying to be patient) waiting mode...

Adam

On 11/24/06, Wade Heninger <heninger@adobe.com> wrote:
> Ric Carter wrote:
> > I've tried to resist, but, really, the best upgrade you can make in
> > your PC shopping is to get a Mac.
> >
> > We run a PC shop at my office with Macs coming in recently. We are
> > running Parallels on an iMac. It runs Windows faster than the PCs we
> > have. It is also relatively immune to viruses and spyware.
>
> Ugh.  Getting a Mac isn't really an upgrade.
>
> My qualtifications for chiming in here:  I worked at Apple for years.
> Now I work at Adobe.  I spend all day in Photoshop (less now with
> Lightroom).
>
> I've owned macs, I've owned PCs over the past 15 years.  I've seen and
> used most everything.
>
> The easy one: I wouldn't own a pre-intel mac for the world.  The intel
> processors run circles around the G4 Macs in Photoshop.  They were
> unbearably slow.  Good riddance.
>
> The Intel Macs are great - you get the good hardware and you can run
> both OSes without problems - the only negative is that they are
> expensive if you just want to run Windows.  Photoshop/ACR/Lightroom on
> both platforms are the same for all intents/purposes, so it really is
> just the speed they run at that makes or breaks it.  Personally, I like
> Windows a bit more these days, but I'll work in the Mac OS without too
> many gripes.
>
> I see stupidity on both platforms, with a slight usable/reliable edge
> going to the Mac, but not as much as Mac people would like to claim.
> Its really a percentage point or two nowadays.  This isn't the days of
> Win 3.1.
>
> Parallels will *not* run faster than a native PC.  It just won't. I've
> seen and used it,  and its slower than bootcamp Windows by a measurable
> amount.
> You can just feel it.  If you just use it to run Outlook, you'll be
> fine. If you have to use Photoshop in it, you'll know.
>
> My current machine is a Macbook pro and I mostly use it with Windows
> except when I have to travel (because bootcamp windows does not sleep
> very well).
>
>
>
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