Will Photoshop CS run on a 1.66Ghz Mac Mini

[dwl017]

Good morning all,

I am about to pick up a used 1.66Ghz Intel Core Duo Mini and was wondering will my version of Photoshop install on the machine.

I am currently running it on a G4 1.25Ghz Mini with 1GB of ram works just fine.

Thanks

PS. It's just Photoshop CS not the creative suite

 

[irishgrizzly]

Yeah it'll run, but because it will run under Rosetta you get a performance hit. Compensate by buying lots of RAM.

 

[dwl017]

Yeah it'll run, but because it will run under Rosetta you get a performance hit. Compensate by buying lots of RAM.

Thanks for the quick reply but will it install ? please bare with me this will be my first Intel based Mac so I just don't know if my old software will install.

Thanks again

 

[rdowns]

Intel Macs will run older PPC software. See this page.

 

[AlexisV]

Yes it wil install. It will be faster in use on your old G4 though.

CS3 will be faster on the Intel.

 

[powerbook911]

Yes it wil install. It will be faster in use on your old G4 though.

CS3 will be faster on the Intel.

the Core 2 Duo machine might be close to the performance of the G4.

On my 2.4 GHZ Core duo with 3 GB of memory the CS Photoshop is way faster than my Powerbook 1.5 GHZ G4.

 

[Cave Man]

Yes it wil install. It will be faster in use on your old G4 though.

This was not my experience. PSCS ran very well on a core duo mini, once rosetta was up and running.