| | Well I bought my Dad an intel imac and "installed" Photoshop CS1 to test it out versus my 1Ghz G4 Powerbook. His is a Core Duo 2Ghz machine and surprisingly, Photoshop did not gain much over my old G4 machine running at half the speed (assuming the Mactel was using 1 Core for Rosetaa and the other to run PS). I didn't bother with Final Cut, but now with FCP 5 in universal, some of those performance hits shouldn't be as drastic. Where I did notice a striking improvement was with Blender 3D. Took 46 to render a frame (with threads enabled) wiht blender 2.42a for OSX-INtel and almost 8 Minutes on my powerbook. Same frame same settings. Now that's a drastic difference. |
