Comments on: Putting the Dual Boot in

By: Paul Mison

Paul Mison — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:19:16 +0000

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

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:28:35 +0000

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

By: Paul Mison

Paul Mison — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:27:22 +0000

“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.

By: lloydy

lloydy — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:46:53 +0000

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)!