Precisely. If I could make the PC work that way, I would be "optimizing" it. I didn't have to do anything to the Mac, so I maintain it is optimized.
Maybe it's not the hardware per se that's optimized, rather it's the OS optimized for the hardware. On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > Hi Jim, > > My wife is a SAD at Euro RSCG, which is one of the world’s top 5 ad > agencies. I know plenty about “Macs in ad agencies” > > But what I find surprising is all you guys that think that Photoshop > is somehow faster on current Intel Macs, yet have no idea why it’s > so much better. Surely if you could work that out you could have > much faster PCs as well. > > These days it’s the same memory, the same chipsets, the same CPU, > the same disks, the same graphics cards. 6-10 years ago we could > have argued about PowerPC versus Pentiums, but these days the > hardware is the same. Redrawing an image works the same on both > platforms. The only difference would be in the OS. > > Cheers > Ken > <trimmed> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~