Finally, the refinement the Mac world has been waiting for…
First impressions are, it is faster, but it’s not the huge gap I was expecting. Apple have re-written the entire operating system to run natively in 64 bit. Good news since Apple have been pushing 64bit Core 2 Duo processors out for a few years now.
I was teetering on the edge of swapping back to a dedicated Windows machine. Those who read my last post would have seen me surprised to see how well Vista runs through Bootcamp. Well, I decided to run a little test.
Photoshop CS3, 141 JPG images and an automated action with the following commands:
- Auto levels
- Auto colour
- Resize to 50%
- Save for Web
- Close
So, Snow Leopard was first, and completed the test in 6:55. Windows was booted up, and I opened the images. I wish I had timed the opening of the 141 images, as Windows was considerably slower. Once it finally opened, the action was run. Windows completed in 7:45.
Both tests were run from a folder on the desktop, both from the same hard drive.
I think if the RAM was upgraded, the Mac would have steamed ahead thanks to it’s 64bit-ness.
So, for now, I’m back on the Mac side of the fence…
