Re: Photoshop in Rosetta
Re: Photoshop in Rosetta
- Subject: Re: Photoshop in Rosetta
- From: Scott Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:29:21 -0600
According to the german computer magazine c't, the new MacBook Pro with the new Core Duo 2 gained 63% more speed in Photoshop compared to the Core Duo.
That's combining the speed improvements from Core 2 Duo chip *and* the 10.4.8 update. So, you would see something like that kind of difference if you compared Rosetta performance on a Core Duo machine on 10.4.7 versus a Core 2 Duo machine on 10.4.8. You might see a 63% performance increase on some tasks but the overall permanence increase is bound to be a bit lower than that, but still significant. They further on say that Photoshop runs nearly twice as fast as on the fastes PowerBook G4 ever built. Yep, I just replaced my 1.67 GHz Powerbook G4 with a 7200 RPM drive with a 2.33GHz MacBookPro Core2Duo 5400 RPM drive and confirm that all Rosetta applications launch and run faster on the new machines than they did on the fastest PowerBooks. Since they are completely 64 bit they will be able to take advantage of MacOS 10.5's 64-bit capabilities when it arrives. I've been telling my clients all year to hold out for these Merom (now called Core 2 Duo) machines. I was hoping for a 4-6 RAM ceiling but apparently Intel's memory controller is limiting the maximum RAM to 3gigs even though Apple wanted to have more. Having lots of RAM is critical for the stability of the Rosetta environment right now and if you want to run other operating systems simultaneously with Parallels or VMWare even 3 gigs isn't a whole lot of RAM.
Scott Martin www.on-sight.com
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