[Leica] re: OT - Best PC Setup for Photoshop Question

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

On Nov 24, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Wade Heninger wrote:

> Ric Carter wrote:
>> I've tried to resist, but, really, the best upgrade you can make in
>> your PC shopping is to get a Mac.
>>
>> We run a PC shop at my office with Macs coming in recently. We are
>> running Parallels on an iMac. It runs Windows faster than the PCs we
>> have. It is also relatively immune to viruses and spyware.
>
> Ugh.  Getting a Mac isn't really an upgrade.

And some folks don't think there's a difference in feel of Leica  
equipment. If you notice it matters. Some folks prefer and appreciate  
Mac, some don't.
>
> My qualtifications for chiming in here:  I worked at Apple for years.
> Now I work at Adobe.  I spend all day in Photoshop (less now with
> Lightroom).
>
> I've owned macs, I've owned PCs over the past 15 years.  I've seen and
> used most everything.

I'm certainly no expert. I was just registering my experience.


>
> The easy one: I wouldn't own a pre-intel mac for the world.  The intel
> processors run circles around the G4 Macs in Photoshop.  They were
> unbearably slow.  Good riddance.
>

Maybe so. At any rate, you can't get anything but the Intel version  
now without hunting or buying used.


> The Intel Macs are great - you get the good hardware and you can run
> both OSes without problems - the only negative is that they are
> expensive if you just want to run Windows.

Gee, I could have sworn that the new MacPros were cheaper than a  
comparable Dell machine. Before that, I generally found that  
comparable machines are comparably priced.


>   Photoshop/ACR/Lightroom on
> both platforms are the same for all intents/purposes, so it really is
> just the speed they run at that makes or breaks it.  Personally, I  
> like
> Windows a bit more these days, but I'll work in the Mac OS without too
> many gripes.
> I see stupidity on both platforms, with a slight usable/reliable edge
> going to the Mac, but not as much as Mac people would like to claim.
> Its really a percentage point or two nowadays.  This isn't the days of
> Win 3.1.

Thank god;^)

>
> Parallels will *not* run faster than a native PC.

It's faster than the PCs in our office. None are CoreDuos. Anyone  
upgrading from an older PC to an iMac would, I think, enjoy a speed  
boost with Parallels.

> It just won't. I've
> seen and used it,  and its slower than bootcamp Windows by a  
> measurable
> amount.
> You can just feel it.  If you just use it to run Outlook, you'll be
> fine. If you have to use Photoshop in it, you'll know.
>
> My current machine is a Macbook pro and I mostly use it with Windows
> except when I have to travel (because bootcamp windows does not sleep
> very well).

I'm glad you are enjoying your Mac.

Ric

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