CS2 and iMac5

[BHP517]

I know i need at least a dual processor Mac G5 to get any speed with CS2. Has anyone been processing image files with a later iMacG5 1.8 or better? I was wondering if it is fairly efficient handling NEF or larger Tiff files to printing and other intensive work. I am hold off on a Intel based model until the universal coded apps are developed and tested. Right now I'm stuck with old technology in a G4 system. The NEF conversion and various CS2 actions are sl-o-o-o-w.
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BHP517

 

[lamesalegend]

Also post this in the mac forum youll get a good response

 

[mrapplegate]

I know i need at least a dual processor Mac G5 to get any speed
with CS2. Has anyone been processing image files with a later
iMacG5 1.8 or better? I was wondering if it is fairly efficient
handling NEF or larger Tiff files to printing and other intensive
work. I am hold off on a Intel based model until the universal
coded apps are developed and tested. Right now I'm stuck with old
technology in a G4 system. The NEF conversion and various CS2
actions are sl-o-o-o-w.
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BHP517

I have an iMac G5 1.8 and I am using a Beta of Adobe Lightroom, and it handles NEF files well. I hear my fan going a little more than usual, and close my other apps, but it is not slow at all. I have 2GB RAM as well, which might help.

 

[Sascha Gast]

I have a G5 iMAC, the 2.1ghz 20", but not the intel one.
CS2 runs great on it, no complaints at all. I have 1.5gig RAM and it is smooth
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[Stephen Usher]

You won't get a G5 iMac new any more (unless it's old stock) as Apple has transitioned the whole iMac range to Intel Core Duo processors (read dual core Pentium M + 64bit extensions).

Adobe won't be rebuilding CS2 for Intel on the Mac any time soon and the PowerPC emulation on MacOS X x86 only emulates a single processor so you will probably get about the same performance out of the new machines as the onld one, or slightly slower.

 

[JulesJ]

"The" Mac forum? Which one is that? There isn't one on DPReview is there?

ules

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[Michael Czeiszperger]

I know i need at least a dual processor Mac G5 to get any speed
with CS2.

That hasn't been my experience. I do all of my editing on a 15" Powerbook 1.6GHz model with 2G of RAM. The only time I notice the computer speed at all is when editing large 16-bit files. For some reason the performance slows for 16-bit, but not so much that you can't get the job done.

Don't get me wrong. If I was editing photos all day I'd want the fastest desktop available, but I spend a couple hours a night in PS editing photos on my laptop and the performance is perfectly acceptable.

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[wackybit]

"The" Mac forum? Which one is that? There isn't one on DPReview is
there?

ules

It's called "Mac Tools", almost at the bottom of the list

 

[Darrelll]

I know i need at least a dual processor Mac G5 to get any speed
with CS2.

I have a duo core notebook for PC not Mac, with 1gb ram which is not enough. I think my ram needs to be pumped up to 2gb which is the max for my PC.

It handles single files just fine, but if I'm running Bridge and have a few open files in PS, it will slow down.

Has anyone been processing image files with a later
iMacG5 1.8 or better? I was wondering if it is fairly efficient
handling NEF or larger Tiff files to printing and other intensive
work. I am hold off on a Intel based model until the universal
coded apps are developed and tested. Right now I'm stuck with old
technology in a G4 system. The NEF conversion and various CS2
actions are sl-o-o-o-w.
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BHP517

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[dannv]

You won't get a G5 iMac new any more (unless it's old stock)

there's plenty of 'old' stock available if you want it

Adobe won't be rebuilding CS2 for Intel on the Mac any time soon

actually, its never. but CS3 will be out 'real soon now' with full support...dav

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