Does Photoshop run Faster on a Mac than PC?

[andiwm2003]

Yeah, and back in the '80s, 640k was enough memory.

Here's a hint: digital camera image sensors will continue to get bigger. Images will continue to get higher in resolution. Photo editors will continue to combine more and more layers. More and more levels of undo. Image processing geeks will create more and more complex filters. Pretty soon, 4GB will no longer be enough for anybody.

And "pretty soon" is sooner than you think.

correct me if i'm wrong but can't OS X adress 32GB ram already? I think the mac pro can take 32 GB. And my guess is that you won't need more than 32 GB Ram in the next 4 years. By then OS X is 64 bit as well.

 

[MisterMe]

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And "pretty soon" is sooner than you think.

I take it that you admit that you have never had the need for the address space provided by 64-bit processors and that you will not have the need for quite some time to come. However, you believe that you will need the capability "pretty soon"?

 

[Eidorian]

Wrong. There are different classes of motherboards and components. There are $400 motherboards and there are complete windows computer for $400.

The OS makes a huge difference. Windows multi tasks poorly. Try open 100 4mb jpegs in windows and you'll see.

Not photoshop, but some relative measurement between Mac and windows.
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3446&p=4

How is it wrong? It's still x86 hardware. Sure it's not an expensive dual socket Xeon motherboard from Foxconn but it's still x86.

When did an Intel Mac stop being and Intel Mac?

 

[leandroc76]

Nice reference - its 6 yes 6 years old!! Things have moved on a little since then
As to a month later, not sure about you but us in the UK are in a economic downturn so most of us turn the pc off when its not being used (most of the night atleast)
And from a personal perspective - extra ram is so much better to have when working on any large file.


Not this again, the amount of people who spout this junk is stupid. Windows is just as stable as os-x, its the users who make it unstable by installing junkware etc. In a business environment with all software and drivers thoroughly checked to work windows is just as stable as os-x.

OSX is OSX 6 years later!!! The same Technology.

I once posted about an experience I had when I was in college. I took class for photoshop in which the class used 2ghz Dell towers, at the time I used a PowerMac 450 mhz Blue and White!

My mac rendered my homework in 30 something seconds... so I thought great! When I present this I don't have to show up early to rendering in class, a fairly normal practice at this school!

I went to present my Vector graphic and it took 45 minutes for the Dell to render the same vector!

You do the math...

the entire class argued with me about the rendering times the entire class!!! so I brought the computer in... Voila!! same file, same results.

Argue with them apples.