Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

so I hate to be a nay-sayer to all of you complaining about CS 4's speed, but I have it loaded on 2 machines. one is a macbook with 2 gig of ram and a dual core 2.3 ghz processor and the other is a mac pro with 2 2.66 ghz dual core processors and 3 gig of ram, and on both machines CS4 runs like the dream that CS2 and CS3 never was.

I have tested the start up and shut down times of all three versions of CS and 4 outperforms the others by 10-12 second and the processing of the images I am working on is great.

I am most happy with bridge and adobe camera raw, the new features added there are so fantastic i nearly wet myself.

Will be $34.99 in a couple of years, tho'.

>3,499 each.

bloody insane.

i've got about a year to go. hopefully things will come together before then. when ms releases 7, i'll start thinking.

currently running core2duo e6600 (2.4) w/2 gig ram and a couple o'tb of hard drive. 7600gtx 256meg vid. dual display.

From the testing I have read the only thing mentioned was that the video cards can't keep up with cpu demand. This is on serveral websites and different tests.

So maybe this puppy made by Nvidia can boost things up. Only $3,499 each. It does dishes too........ lol

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/MailHome.asp?datePublish=2008/11/11&pages=PR&seq=201

Yep. No FSB.

have they eliminated the bus bottleneck?

Yep. One helluva core! :-)

>Intel i7 cores

oh, momma! :)

my next boxen. i7 and windows 7! :)

While we wait for Kwan's machine here is a link to ps cs4 tested on Intel i7 cores for your reading pleasure......

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2333764,00.asp