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April 14, 2006

PS/MacTel benchmarks

PS/MacTel benchmarks: Rob Morgan compares the timing of a few Photoshop and AfterEffects operations on a desktop Mac, a notebook Mac, and (under Rosetta emulation) one of the new Intel-based Macintosh computers. (I don't think he included the newer "running WinXP on Macintosh" scenario.) I'm linking it here because it got some blog attention earlier today... as you'd expect, a fast desktop outperformed notebook emulation. But the part that really caught my eye was the op/ed at the end: "We all need to start bugging Adobe to get UB versions of Photoshop and After Effects finished for the Intel Macs... How do you speed up Adobe's updates? I know it's not an easy transition to Universal Binaries. However, if the UB versions are not a priority at Adobe, you may be able to help change that by posting your opinion on Adobe's discussion groups." No, that won't help... it would be more useful to first listen to what Adobe execs have been publicly advising since last year, before the MacTel shipped, and the background given by engineers since then... the new hardware requires a new development environment, and the port of the workflow which would enable the port of the code has been scheduled for the first full release of the larger mature applications.... last summer this was publicly estimated to take place around the turn of the coming year. Flooding the forums won't change this. (See also my own personal experience with early adoption of new hardware... I'm sympathetic, but it's hard when asked to listen to those who won't listen in turn.)

Posted by John Dowdell at April 14, 2006 01:49 PM

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Interesting that nobody is screaming for the Macromedia suite of apps to be universal binaries. All of them are essentially "typing" apps so Rosetta will run them all just fine. The interesting thing in my mind is "what is going to happen to Director?" Does it die at MX 2004 or does the team over in India have YA-Surprise up their sleves?

Posted by: john Foster at April 16, 2006 04:39 PM