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Can someone run a really basic benchmark for me? (Adobe CS2 + Intel iMac)

Chrispy

Chrispy

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Hello. For all those who have Adobe CS2 installed on the new Intel iMacs, can you please open Photoshop CS2 and then InDesign CS2 and see how long it takes to program to load from click to being ready to go. I am trying to decide how bad the performance really is. Also when you have a page layout open in InDesign, does it get choppy when you zoom and move around the page? Here are my startup times on a 1.33GHz iBook with 512 RAM

Photoshop CS2 - 25 seconds
InDesign CS2 - 27 seconds

Please note your CPU speed on the Core Duo processor and how much ram you have. Thanks!
 
Chrispy, I'd suggest a few more benchmarks than just that which will take a while since it's got to be translated into Rosetta. And which you probably only do once a day.

It appears that the first run of any action in a session will be slowest but then that action's translation is stored in memory so should be faster next time.

I'd suggest asking someone to run a gaussian blur, resize and rotate an image - and then run the same things on another similar image and compare how fast they are.
 
Chrispy said:
Hello. For all those who have Adobe CS2 installed on the new Intel iMacs, can you please open Photoshop CS2 and then InDesign CS2 and see how long it takes to program to load from click to being ready to go. I am trying to decide how bad the performance really is. Also when you have a page layout open in InDesign, does it get choppy when you zoom and move around the page? Here are my startup times on a 1.33GHz iBook with 512 RAM

Photoshop CS2 - 25 seconds
InDesign CS2 - 27 seconds

Please note your CPU speed on the Core Duo processor and how much ram you have. Thanks!
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The biggest rosetta slow-down is during opening. On mine cs2 takes 22 seconds, but you'll find photoshop considerably faster than on your g3 once it is open, as long as you have at least 1GB.
I have a 17" 1.83 Ghz 1G5. Sorry, don't have indesign.
 
bigfib said:
The biggest rosetta slow-down is during opening. On mine cs2 takes 22 seconds, but you'll find photoshop considerably faster than on your g3 once it is open, as long as you have at least 1GB.
I have a 17" 1.83 Ghz 1G5. Sorry, don't have indesign.
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I have a G4, but I assume that is what you meant. 22 seconds is still a faster startup than my G4 iBook with a 7200 RPM hard drive and if that is when the biggest slow-down occurs then that is not bad. I was interested in startup times becuase I figured that would be the time when rosetta is working the hardest. Keep the numbers coming all :)
 
Photoshop CS2/In Design CS2 Start-up

Photo Shop CS2/ 1st start-up: 21 Seconds

After that...

InDesign: 8 Seconds
PS 2: 12 Seconds

17" iMac Duo
1.5 Gb RAM
 
I'm installing CS2 right now ... I'll post here in a moment.

[EDIT] It took about 35-45 seconds on a 17" with 512 RAM. This was the first time I opened it.
 
desperate to upgrade from 1.25 ghz alubook

but the thought of running illustrator cs2 and spudshop cs2 under rosetta gives me cold shivers

i'm really interested to hear about their speed under rosetta and also any compatibility problems (that have been rumoured).

hope you guys can help :confused:

;oB
 
Most of the things I have heard, I have never experienced when I ran CS2 under Rosetta. It was rather zippy. I did not notice a definative speed decrease and if anything it was slightly faster. It is not my computer so I will have to get my friend to run it for you but I will do that later this week. Or if I get my MBP in I will run it. It is not as bad as some people say it is. Never once had it crash on me.
 
Photoshop CS2 Comparison

Mixed bag here: Photoshop CS2 speed test
Quicksilver tower 733 upgraded to 1.47 / 1.5gig RAM / 7200HD (my baby)
Open Photoshop first time - 25"
Open 225mb file first time -12"
Shadow/Highlight command with two adjustments - 30"

MacBook Dual 2.0 / 2gig RAM / 7200HD
Open Photoshop first time - 40"
Open same 225mb file - 12"
Same Shadow/Highlight command with two adjustments - 20"

I worked for a few minutes on the file. The primary gain while stuck working in Rosetta seems to be in actually working on large files in Photoshop.

Of course, system operations are much snappier. Also, I'm not ssure why, being a laptop does seem to mean something. My 800 iBook never ran Photoshop CS1 near as fast as my 733 tower.

ps- if anyone has AOL an needs help getting it installed on one of these - I have all the required standing on one's head, rubbing your belly while reciting the pledge of allegence guidelines. What a trip.
 
Photoshop CS2 first time takes 21 secs to open on my Imac 2ghz, with 2gb Ram.
Second time = 11 secs.


Indesign CS2 first time = 22 secs
Second time = 6 secs
 
Chrispy, I know this isn't what you wanted, but it seems weird that your iBook is taking that long to open PS and InDesign...I opened the both and:

Photoshop CS2: 16 seconds
InDesign CS2: 13 seconds

I opened InDesign AFTER I had closed Photoshop, so that might make a difference....I don't know.

I only have the 4200RPM HD and 768MB RAM.
 
qua said:
...ps- if anyone has AOL an needs help getting it installed on one of these - I have all the required standing on one's head, rubbing your belly while reciting the pledge of allegence guidelines. What a trip.
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cool, maybe you could start a thread on that so it would show up easier if somebody is searching for that
 
Start up first time:

Photoshop CS2: 28 sec

2nd time: 26 sec

It does not feel all that slow as some people are saying. It actually feels faster than my old P4 2.8 GHz
 
overbyte said:
i also found this

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=104

very useful
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That seems to be quite the opposite of what I've been hearing from users in this forum. I think a big thing for rosetta is that you need lots of ram. They list as having 2GB of RAM, so that shouldn't be a problem. However, if you read in this thread here, towards the end. People are posting their benchmarks on intel iMacs and MacBook Pros. Definitely give it a look. I think you'll be suprised at how well the intels are keeping up with (and in some cases surpassing) the PPCs.

Here's the thread.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/136593/
 
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