Re: another slight aside

2010-08-08 Thread eckinator
2010/8/7 Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com: I'll extend your compliment to the PowerPC emulation engineers at Apple. The three leads on that part of the system are buddies of mine since 1991. :-) Mine, too, I still love my old 9600 even though I fire it up very rarely and just for old

re: another slight aside

2010-08-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Cotty, are you still running Apple-PowerPC systems or are you on Apple-Intel systems now? 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.

Re: another slight aside

2010-08-07 Thread steve harley
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

Re: another slight aside

2010-08-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:29 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: 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,

Re: another slight aside

2010-08-07 Thread steve harley
On 2010-08-07 15:36 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I didn't say CS2 had problems running on the Apple-Intel box; I said performance was *significantly* improved. indeed it is improved; i simply wanted to reassure Cotty that the performance for many purposes is good enough and that CS2 is otherwise

Re: another slight aside

2010-08-07 Thread Cotty
On 7/8/10, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: Cotty, are you still running Apple-PowerPC systems or are you on Apple-Intel systems now? 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

Re: another slight aside

2010-08-07 Thread Cotty
On 7/8/10, steve harley, discombobulated, unleashed: indeed it is improved; i simply wanted to reassure Cotty that the performance for many purposes is good enough and that CS2 is otherwise quite workable Hey, you wanna try rendering some complicated stuff in Final Cut on a 2.4 15 MBP - compared

Re: another slight aside

2010-08-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:37 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: To me, performance improvements like that make the CS2 to CS4 upgrade fee trivial when I consider how much time it will save. It also means editing becomes FAR more responsive and fun. :-) it's a significant but not