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

[gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)]

Sorry all, I did not intend to start a range war between the PC and Mac 
faction's on the LUG.

I cannot use MAC's with my business applications (specialized databases - 
not Microsoft). I do believe that they make a great personal computer but 
not one I can currently use.

Greg J. Lorenzo
Calgary, Alberta

----- Original Message -----
From: Wade Heninger <heninger@adobe.com>
Date: Friday, November 24, 2006 11:24 am
Subject: RE: [Leica] re: OT - Best PC Setup for Photoshop Question

> 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.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.  
> 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 
> likeWindows 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.
> 
> Parallels will *not* run faster than a native PC.  It just won't. I've
> seen and used it,  and its slower than bootcamp Windows by a 
> measurableamount.
> 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).
> 
> 
> 
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