Rosetta and Photoshop / Illustrator CS

[adriantoll]

I currently have a 1.33GHz G4 Powerbook 17" with 2Gb of RAM, and I've been lusting after a 20" Intel iMac with 2Gb of RAM and a 500Gb hard drive. However, I don't know whether it's just technojoy.

Has anyone done intensive graphical tasks on an Intel iMac using apps that run in Rosetta (as I presume Photoshop and Illustrator CS would do)? How fast were they?

I just don't want to fork out for the iMac and then sit around waiting for the Intel versions of Photoshop etc. to see any difference...

 

[BakedBeans]

it runs photoshop a fair bit faster than your native machine would.

Its not lightning quick but will be when its native

 

[hvfsl]

You are probably going to want to get 2GB RAM with your new Intel Mac because Rosetta is meant to really eat up RAM.