Re: Is this computer any good for CS4?

dvus wrote:
"Paul Burdett" <pburdett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4ac07681$0$1783$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Mike Russell" <groupsRE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:tohoxuki5h6p$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:34:02 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

Mike Russell wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:13:41 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

Paul Burdett wrote:
Thanks for the replies..much appreciated. As for the price..you may be
right, but most quad core systems I've looked at are around the $1600 mark.
I'll look into the Windows 7 OS as well.
Paul
Mac - G5 supports 1 or 2 Quad core Xeon Nehalem (same i7
microarchitecture) for 8 to 16 simultaneous threads. Real parallel
processing.

To support that Mac OS X 10.6 has a multithread dispatching scheme (GCD)
that will blow Windows out of the water as apps catch up to it - and I
suspect PS CS5 will for complex image editing.

The whole notion of GCD is take parallel processing details out of the
hands of apps developers and simply drop their tasks/threads to GCD to
manage which core executes what. This means balanced/loaded processing.

i7 under Windows 7 sounds promising, but Mac is where it will be at.

64 bit no workee

Mac OS X 10.6 64 bit workee.

Sure - the OS supports 64 bits, but not Photoshop.

And CS5 definitely workee 64 bit.

It does, but it's not released yet. 64 bit CS4 was released a full year
or more, on windows.

(A G5 is way over his budget however).

His budget, and a lot of other folks'.

I'm not seeing any advantages here.

Hi Mike,
I've been reading this newsgroup for a while and I value your opinion. I have CS3 Extended (legal and paid for in case anyone wants to know) and it worked reasonably fast on my Pentium 4, 3GHZ desktop with 2Gb ram with no internet access. Since getting rid of my old desktop internet machine due to old age, I now have only the one PC and laptop (Toshiba Satellite Core duo...which runs CS3 faster of course and CS4 (trial) worked quite fast as well). My PC is now much slower and Bridge especially takes too long to display the thumbnails...opening a single raw file in Camera Raw also seems to take too long (20 secs or so sometimes accompanied by the "reading raw data" progress bar on the screen. Rebooting generally helps. Of course I do have antivirus (AVG) running as well.
My question is I've heard that Intel's new core i7 is very fast (faster than quad core) and windows 7 os is also a very good. I do quite a bit of editing in Photoshop, so I'm looking to upgrade my computer as well as perhaps upgrading to CS4. As CS5 is expected out soon I'm wondering if the i7+windows 7 os+ 64bit CS4 or 5 will be the best choice if I want photoshop to really work fast? I do have a budget (approx AUD$2000), but would rather spend more now than get a cheaper system and have to upgrade in 12 months.
Your advice is appreciated.


My .02 is that I'd make sure I got win7 (it's faster than Vista, and many new machines include a free upgrade path), get an I7 rig and not settle for less than an nVidia 9800 (which you can get reasonably with an additional Gig of video memory). The Macs are ok but pricey for what you get.

Yeah, what you get, with say an iMac 24" is a display that a Windblow user has to pay $800 for. You can't compare "windblows" machines to a Mac unless the windblows machine has the display and the graphics to match. Few do.
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