mac intel duo vs pc intel pentium IV
 

would a new macbook (not pro) 2.0ghz be a lot quicker than a mobile P4 1.6ghz?

like for instance, photoshop 7 on my laptop might take 15 seconds to do a filter. might the mac do it twice as fast? or faster?


I have to be careful about manipulating only one image at a time on my machine - it's sooo slow and irritating.

oh yeah. the pc mobile chip is not a pentium-M

I have found the MacBook 2.0GHz to be stunningly fast, both in bootcamp running solely XP and running OS X. However the OS X version of Photoshop is not available in universal binary yet so it does run slower. (Actually runs slower than Photoshop running in a Parallels window).

When I say slow it is relative obviously.

The new Core Duo chips are a LOT faster than any older Intel architectures. *However*, your mileage may vary for the reasons KiwiGTI mentions; you may be using an older Mac binary that uses the universal translator - or wotever it's called.

Google is your best mate here for reports on the latest Intel and Mac stuff.

Dave - works for Intel but not on Mac stuff ...... :D

Having tested both side by side certain functions in Photoshop are slower on the Intel based mac such as the initial opening of files likely to be due the the velocity engine on the G5 chip but once the file is open filters and effects were actually applied quicker on the Intel machine which was somewhat surprising and contrary to what we were lead to believe.

The next generation of PowerMacs will provide vast power with a true 64 bit Intel architecture



AllanB

So i can safely dual boot into xp and run xp based photoshop ?

are there any deals out there at the moment? I'll get a black mac book with 2gigs and a bigger drive

Yes, although you'll probably won't need to, it's not that slow.

If you want a deal email me at allan.bayman@macwarehouse.co.uk should be able to do something but not a vast amount as demand is so high



AllanB