> -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:59 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Looks like MS is trying to shove Vista down consumer's > throats > > >A) Buying a MacBook > >or > >B) Buying a blank PC and installing Ubuntu > > > >That's what I'm kinda thinking for my next "workstation".... > > I'm seriously thinking of switching to a Mac now that you can pretty > easily run Windows in parallel...or boot to it separately. My current 1 > gig XP system just constantly chokes when working in Photoshop and just > about anything else at the same time, but most of my development work > is pretty Windows-dependent at this point. I just wonder if it's worth > the expense to switch. But then, every time I have to reboot my > computer to get it working again, only to get a black screen of death, > I think it wouldn't be so bad... ;-)
I suppose it depends. PhotoShop performance really ends up as a wash in my experience. Some things are faster on one platform, some on another - but nothing that you'd really notice. The bottom line is that most of PhotoShop's true performance sinks (filters, convertors, etc) have long since been optimized to CPU microcode: so running on an Intel chip, regardless of the OS, will result in similar performance overall. In short, for PhotoShop performance (whether on Mac or Windows) you'll get a bigger bang for the buck either increasing RAM (1 Gig is just plain anemic for heavy photoshop use) or moving to a faster processor regardless of platform. Of course if you really want to improve productivity when image editing you could just switch to CorelDraw. (Just thought I'd start another religious war) ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
