Putting the Dual Boot in
Posted: April 7th, 2006 | 4 Comments »If, like so many other people all over the net for the past 48 hours, you have felt compelled to type the words “The best Windows laptop is a Mac” (likely prefixed with “OMG” and suffixed with too many exclamation points) please take a moment to consider:
- “Basic tracking works, but acceleration, scrolling, and right-click support are not available in Windows.” (my emphasis). No right-clickee, no laundry. Yes, you can plug in a mouse, but who regularly uses a mouse when they have a trackpad handy? Come back when you’ve got a two-button trackpad and then I’ll think about a MacBook.
- Remember the lovely head-in-sand days of Apple trying to sell OS9 on G3s by showing how much faster Photoshop filters were than on the equivalent PC? (”If only,” Tim said while trying to port Starship Titanic to the Mac, “one could write games in Photoshop, we might get some decent performance out of this thing.”) Well, thanks to a combination of Boot Camp and Adobe being slack, the fastest way to run Photoshop on a Mac is by doing it on Windows. No, I know it doesn’t mean much, but… the irony, it overpowers!
Boooooo! Hissssss!
Reasoned points. However, a MacBook running windows would also run ‘Windows Defender’, Norton Antivirus, SpamBot… (repeat to fade) a whole lot faster too
Now you back blogging again sir, how about some more of the same – pleeeease (with a cheery on top)!
“the fastest way to run Photoshop on a Mac is by doing it on Windows”
I accept that’s true if you look at any given Intel Mac, but if you look at the entire range of available hardware, I’d be surprised if a top-of-the-line G5 tower didn’t beat an Intel iMac running Windows.
That doesn’t stop it being embarrasing.
As to the right click support, if you’re the sort of Mac user who’s already used to using control-click everywhere, the Apple Mouse Utility lets you use that key combo for context-clicks in Windows too.
Well, it certainly beats booting up VPC in glacier time just to see what Internet Exploder has done with valid CSS THIS TIME. B-b-but I’ve just bought five of the very last G4 powerbooks (thanks to Apple’s refurb pricing madness on their refurb store), just so that I can be photoshop-smug for the next year or so. I too await the multibutton trackpad – Apple, the days of the monoprod are past. Long past. Learn.
Richard
In their review of Parallels Workstation, MacWorld have some very rough and ready benchmarks that bear out my previous claim: Photoshop’s faster on a dual G5 than a Intel Mac running Windows.
Photoshop in a VM seems to be faster than Photoshop in Rosetta, though, unsurprisingly.
http://www.macworld.com/2006/04/firstlooks/parallelsfl/index.php