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    CS5 faster on OS X ?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Maziar, Jul 9, 2010.

  1. Maziar

    Maziar Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all
    Well i was working on designing a scene on my PC, but found out that it sometimes becomes slow,or it takes quite some minutes to apply a Blur(especially the Radial blur), so i decided to test it on my uncles iMac and surprisingly it loaded the application faster and also i found that it took less time to apply this blur. and overall i found it faster.
    So is CS5 overall faster on OS X ? This is the first time i tested it on both OS's so I'm sorry if its been asked before
    PC specs
    i7 860 @ stock(2.8)
    8GB DDR3 1333 RAM
    1TB HDD(7200 RPM/32mb cache)
    Windows 7

    iMacs specs
    i5 2.6
    4GB DDR3 1333 RAM
    1TB HDD
    Snow Leopard
     
    Maziar, Jul 9, 2010
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  2. mrPico

    mrPico Notebook Deity

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    What video card does each computer have?

    Make sure they are both 64 bit because I read that memory intensive programs benefit a lot from 64 bit.
     
    mrPico, Jul 9, 2010
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  3. Maziar

    Maziar Notebook Consultant

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    Mine has a 5970 and the iMac has a 4850.
    On the iMac i tested with the 32 bit version and on the PC i tested with both 32 and 64bit.Same results
     
    Maziar, Jul 9, 2010
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  4. KernalPanic

    KernalPanic White Knight

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    We have a wide variety of users on CS5. (Web development company)
    A significant chunk amount of PC users and pretty much all our mac users...

    Neither PC nor Mac users seem to be particularly more productive.
    Either our mac users are lazy, or the degree of "faster" is not by that much.

    This doesn't mean certain things might not be faster... it just means that on average in our company having a mac doesn't help any more than what the user is familiar with.
     
    KernalPanic, Jul 9, 2010
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  5. akin_t

    akin_t Notebook Evangelist

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    I know for sure CS4 ain't faster on OS X ... Then again, my PC is a monster compared to my MBP, so not a fair comparison at all.
     
    akin_t, Jul 9, 2010
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  6. pjshots

    pjshots Notebook Consultant

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    How do you test the x32 bit version on osx? When opening PS CS5 it opens x64 on my mbp by default....
     
    pjshots, Jul 9, 2010
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  7. ajreynol

    ajreynol Notebook Virtuoso

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    they are equivalent in speed.
     
    ajreynol, Jul 9, 2010
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