On 2010-08-07 13:26 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
If you're on Apple-Intel systems, you really want to move to Photohop CS3 at least for performance reasons. CS/CS2 are PowerPC executables, running in emulation on the current generation of Apple hardware. CS3 is the first native-code version of Photoshop for Apple-Intel systems: the performance improvement is substantial.
while it's not as fast, CS2 runs without problem on Intel Macs (my experience is up through Mac OS X 10.5); the Intel-native version is quicker and has new features, and is an obvious choice for commercial production use, but for basic work where speed isn't the crucial factor, i've found CS2 to be completely adequate
the PowerPC emulation in Mac OS X is surprisingly good; in fact i just did some basic editing on some 200 MB TIFFs (scans of plat maps) the other day and didn't really notice any lags (i have 8GB RAM, which helps); it sure beats the Quadra 950 with 128MB of RAM with which i used to do compositing for prepress
i'm likely to upgrade sometime soon, but it won't be because CS2 is too slow -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
