Photoshop using professionals that are choosing to upgrade to a Mac Pro now have a stopgap measure to consider: using Photoshop in Windows XP until the Universal Binary of Photoshop arrives. How does Photoshop in Rosetta stack up?
I ran PSBench (the OWC version) again on my Mac Pro, this time with a stop watch, once immediately after cold boot in OS X, and then once (after all my antivirus and spyware software finished loading) in Win XP Professional (Bootcamp), both in fully updated CS2 installations. The results really show what to expect on the Mac Pros once CS3 is out and Universal next year:
(Time to complete 21 filter tests)
OS X in Rosetta: 227 sec
Win XP native: 110 sec
Xlr8yourmac.com has more details in the post (warning: link isn’t a permalink, it will expire). For those that won’t be using the BootCamp stopgap measure and are reasonably satisfied with current performance, the boost is going to be very exciting.
