On the new 8 core tower I bet people won't notice a major difference in apps like photoshop unless they also get some reasonable hard drives.
The Mac Pro, and just about ever other desktop I've seen is using 7200RPC SATA drives and then throwing in like 8 cores or something like that. Over the past several years the bottleneck hasn't been in the CPU. It has been in the IO. SATA is better than IDE, but it is still designed linear IO. It is good for long term storage and home and small office use. But for something like Photoshop or anything else that is going to be doing a lot of Random IO you would want to go with SCSI or maybe SAS now. I get really sick of people talking about cores this and that and thinking how much it will improve performance. When all the is probably happening is the CPU is going up because it is waiting on the hard drives. I found one benchmark for CS 3 and a quad core vs 8 core Mac Pro and the 8 core was only 1 second faster on a filter that took the 4 core 37 seconds. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Well Jim you havent experience photoshop cs3 ub on an intel mac then I > guess. > Average startup time for ps on a pc or cs2 on a mac was 40-70 seconds, my > mbp opens up ps cs3 in around 6 seconds, I think that is more than a > little bit noticeable. And all the functions render that much faster as > well, granted its still in beta and might slow down a little bit. Now you > put that on a new 8 core mp and lord have mercy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232597 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
