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CS3 work on the Power Macs?
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The Photoshop CS3 Beta seemed to run OK on my dual G4 but I didn't benchmark it or anything as we're going to get CS3 anyway for the dual G5s at work. Can't stay on CS1 forever... and we're not due to get new Macs until next year or the year after.
Tryouts are not up on Adobe's website yet. I suggest you wait for product release and try the usual demos they put up there if this is an issue.
Tryouts are not up on Adobe's website yet. I suggest you wait for product release and try the usual demos they put up there if this is an issue.
G5 should be ok
Hi I was wondering the same for my G5. I read an article in the April isue of Mac Life magSee the link below... that the major requiement for CS3 was OS 10.4.8. the speed comparisons are as follows:
2GHz G5 tower vs core 2 duo macbook pro each w/ 2G RAM in CS3 beta ...
Taking into consideration that this is a beta version of CS3, we saw some awesome speed bumps on some operations, while others offered only nominal increases. Your own results may vary.
Radial Blur set to zoom effect at Best quality, amount = 30
> PowerPC Mac: 120 seconds
> Intel Mac: 47 seconds
> Speed Increase: 155%
Change image size by 500%
> PowerPC Mac: 127 seconds
> Intel Mac: 27 seconds
> Speed Increase: 371%
Smart Blur, radius = 10, threshold = 15, quality = High, mode = Normal
> PowerPC Mac: 83 seconds
> Intel Mac: 61 seconds
> Speed Increase: 37%
http://www.maclife.com/article/inside_photoshop_cs3
enjoy
Hi I was wondering the same for my G5. I read an article in the April isue of Mac Life magSee the link below... that the major requiement for CS3 was OS 10.4.8. the speed comparisons are as follows:
2GHz G5 tower vs core 2 duo macbook pro each w/ 2G RAM in CS3 beta ...
Taking into consideration that this is a beta version of CS3, we saw some awesome speed bumps on some operations, while others offered only nominal increases. Your own results may vary.
Radial Blur set to zoom effect at Best quality, amount = 30
> PowerPC Mac: 120 seconds
> Intel Mac: 47 seconds
> Speed Increase: 155%
Change image size by 500%
> PowerPC Mac: 127 seconds
> Intel Mac: 27 seconds
> Speed Increase: 371%
Smart Blur, radius = 10, threshold = 15, quality = High, mode = Normal
> PowerPC Mac: 83 seconds
> Intel Mac: 61 seconds
> Speed Increase: 37%
http://www.maclife.com/article/inside_photoshop_cs3
enjoy
I just got CS3 on my dual core PM G5. It runs just fine except for one weird thing in Photoshop- when I click on the text tool, it takes a while to load the palette at the top of the screen. Anybody else notice this? Everything else is pretty much as good as it was in CS2 for me, but I also have 3.5 gigs of RAM. I'm sure that helps.
I'm running CS3 on a dual 2.5 G5 with 5 gigs of RAM and an ATI X800 XT, and a MBP C2D with 2 gigs of RAM. The performance is about the same. 
I'm running CS3 on a dual 2.5 G5 with 5 gigs of RAM and an ATI X800 XT, and a MBP C2D with 2 gigs of RAM. The performance is about the same.
Yeah, from all the talk around here, I thought it was going to be really slow on PPC, not the case. I'm really glad too.
Ars Technica's review of Photoshop CS3 had benchmarks showing it to be a little faster than CS2 on a PMG5. And the Intel one to be faster on a MBP in OS X than in WinXP.
Ars Technica's review of Photoshop CS3 had benchmarks showing it to be a little faster than CS2 on a PMG5. And the Intel one to be faster on a MBP in OS X than in WinXP.
Yeah- I haven't really noticed much difference. Funny- the general consensus around here (at least my impression) was that CS3 would kill PPC. From what I've seen, that is not the case.
Yes, Illustrator too. It seems to have been a compromise to get the program startup time down. Fewer active fonts helps this.
All these programs seem to be a little happier with a little more RAM than in the past. For older machines with 1 GB or less of RAM, it's probably time to look into boosting that some.
Well, it's not like a universal binary slows PPCs down or anything. It just adds another binary for x86 computers to run, which the PPC ignores.
--Eric
I bet it's loading font previews as well, adding to the time.
Oh no- I get that. It just seemed that a lot of people here thought it wouldn't run well under PPC. Maybe I got the wrong impression.
I would definitely hope that it would. Otherwise, why make the switch to Intel?
I was actually more replying to the general consensus than to you. Sometimes the general consensus tends to be a bit misinformed.
At least it's a matter of fact now rather than conjecture.--Eric