** Image Editing shoot-out!! How fast are you? **

[Ulysses]

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC
2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight)
3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)
4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)
5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)
6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to use it?

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide.
--

Ulysses

 

[mxcat]

Dell 8200
Intel
p4 1.9gz
256 rdram
7200 40g
photoshop 6

11 seconds

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC
2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight)
3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)
4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)
5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)
6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a
stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image
editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide.

--

Ulysses

 

[SFishy]

On my PC (Dual Pentium III 500's, 512mb ram, 32 meg video card, about 40 gigs of hard drive space) -- Corel PhotoPaint (version 8.232):
2 seconds even

On my Mac (Blue/White G3, 400 mhz, 256mb ram, 128 rage pro video card, about 109 gigs of hard drive space) -- Adobe Photoshop (version 6.0)
8:27 seconds

Amy--beauty is really in the LCD/EVF of the beholder http://www.something-fishy.com/photography

 

[cUrVe]

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) PowerBook G4
2) IBM G4 chip
3) 500 MHz
4) 384 MB SDRAM
5) 20 GB 5400 RPM
6) Photoshop 6.0.1

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?

12 seconds (with lo battery level)

i probably should try it again using AC power to see if there's a difference but not tonight.--cUrVe http://homepage.mac.com/curve

 

[Ericjeeper]

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC

HP 750N

2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight)

Intel

3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)

Pentium4 1.6 ghz

4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)

512 meg of ddram

5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)

?

6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

Photoshop6.0.1

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a
stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image
editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?
10-11 seconds

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide.

--

Ulysses

 

[Alfred Eder]

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC: Fujitsu Siemens T-bird
2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight) Intel

3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.) Pentium 3 around 700 Mhz
4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.) SDRAM 128

5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.) 20 GB, don´t know the speed
6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.) Photoshop

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a
stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image
editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it? SHOCK... 26 secs

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide. You are welcome

regards

Alfred
--www.pbase.com/destinyx1

 

[mxcat]

after a cache flush 6 seconds,,,, had other things running too

11 seconds

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC
2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight)
3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)
4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)
5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)
6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a
stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image
editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide.

--

Ulysses

 

[cUrVe]

9 seconds using AC power. (i've got too many fonts open in ATM which slows it down by at least a couple of seconds while photoshop reads them all)

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) PowerBook G4
2) IBM G4 chip
3) 500 MHz
4) 384 MB SDRAM
5) 20 GB 5400 RPM
6) Photoshop 6.0.1

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?

12 seconds (with lo battery level)

i probably should try it again using AC power to see if there's a
difference but not tonight.
--
cUrVe
http://homepage.mac.com/curve

--cUrVe http://homepage.mac.com/curve

 

[Johnny B.81195]

1) Homebrewed pc
2) Intel slot 1
3) P3 600mhz
4) 256mb SDram (100mhz)
5) 20GB 7200 ATA66 Western Digital

6) Adobe Photodeluxe, Elements (trial version) Firehand Ember (very few editing tools, but a nice viewer.

Stopwatch? I'd need a sundial.

 

[Jimmy Chen]

1) the make and model of your PC

Home made brand ...

3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)

Intel P3 1GHz

4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)

256MB PC-100 SDRAM

5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)

30 GB 7200 RPM

6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

MacroMedia Fireworks 4

Now, please re-boot up your computer.

First time, 8 seconds, following tries 2 seconds ...

jc

 

[mxcat]

photopaint photoshop arcsoft, photoimpact, all launch in 4-6 sec,,image ready for some reason needs 14 sec,, and I do notice it.. My p2 needed a minute and a half for ps.

 

[nzmacro]

Corr blimey Ulysses, the things we nutters do )

Make and model ???? Mother board M758LMR thats all I know )

Intel P3, 733mhz

256 meg SDRAM

Drive 13 gig @ 7200rpm
.....................................
PSP = 7 secs

Photoimpact 7 = 14 secs

Coreldraw 9 = 16 secs

Photoshop 6 = 5 secs ( This suprised me)

Thumbs plus = 4 secs

Compupic pro = 10 secs

Running under XP pro
...................................
Interesting darn question and an eye opener.

All the best.

Danny. --Macro, what a world.............................. http://www.macrophotos.com

 

[Tom May]

Ulysses,

The first is a:

G4 500Mhz Dual Processor
768 MB pc100 SDRAM
20 GB ATA66 5400 (OS9) 2X60 ATA66 5400RPM (OSX RAID 0/ Striping)
Photoshop 6.0
OSX
Launch in Classic Mode (OS9) 21 seconds

the second(not mine):

G4 Apollo 800Mhz(newest model tower, entry level, not mine!)
1.5 GB PC133 SDRAM
40 Gb ATA(100?) 7200 RPM
OS9 12 seconds

I would expect performance to increase with Photoshop 7.0 in OSX (especially with the RAID setup) though I'll have to wait a bit longer now to find out.

All Macs come with IEEE1394A/USB 1.1 for peripherals. If you have any plans for digital video on your PC, I would purchase that option or install a card later. If you happen to purchase the Sigma SD-9 in the future, you will really appreciate the download performance.

Tom

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC
2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight)
3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)
4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)
5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)
6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a
stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image
editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide.

--

Ulysses

 

[Ulysses]

... and you flush the cache how?

after a cache flush 6 seconds,,,, had other things running too-- Ulysses

 

[Ulysses]

I believe PS was recompiled to take advantage of the P3 instruction set (?).

Photoshop 6 = 5 secs ( This suprised me)-- Ulysses

 

[Ulysses]

Tom -

Your setup interests me.

20 GB ATA66 5400 (OS9) 2X60 ATA66 5400RPM (OSX RAID 0/ Striping)

I thought you needed at least four drives to optimize for really noticeable benefit for RAID; didn't thing twin drives would matter. Can you give some insight here?-- Ulysses

 

[mxcat]

MemTurbo Cache tuning

after a cache flush 6 seconds,,,, had other things running too

--

Ulysses

 

[E'Mahn]

I thought you needed at least four drives to optimize for really
noticeable benefit for RAID; didn't thing twin drives would matter.

Hi Uly,

Two drives is all you need for RAID 0.

See: http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

 

[HelenPB]

Hi Ulysses,

I'm sitting here trying to figure out the answers to your questions, not understanding much computer jargon. But I'll give it a go (sorry, it's a Mac):

Power Mac G4 Cube, 450MHz, RAM 256MB, SDRAM, PS Elements. I can't find any number on the specs indicating hard drive size and speed (i.e. no RPM numbers).

After restarting my computer, it took 15 seconds to get PSE up. Seems long compared to others, but just for fun I also timed it on my two-year-old iBook that was forced to use for the past month and a half -- took 80 seconds! You can imagine how happy I was last week to get my G4 back from repairs in the States and how much I absolutely didn't want to edit any photos with the iBook.

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC
2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight)
3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)
4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)
5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)
6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a
stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image
editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide.

--

Ulysses

--Helen--- http://community.webshots.com/user/helenpb_

 

[Gordon Berg]

1) Dell 4100
2) Intel P2
3) 450mhz
4) 128 sdram
5) 5400 17mg
6) homebrew

1/5th second (estimated)

OK, this little thread is going to be all about the speed of your
editor and the speed of your PC. What I want to know is simple:

1) the make and model of your PC
2) whether is is AMD or Intel (or Mac.. ok, I'm a good guy tonight)
3) processor speed (Pentium 4, Pentium 2, AMD XP+ 2.2Ghz, etc.)
4) RAM type and amount (RDRAM, DDRAM, SDRAM, etc.)
5) Hard drive size and speed (7200 RPM, 5400 RPM, etc.)
6) image editor (Photoshop, Elements, PSP, PhotoPaint, etc.)

Now, please re-boot up your computer. Once that is done, take a
stopwatch.

Start the timer immediately when you've clicked to start your image
editor.

HOW LONG does it take before your editor is up and ready for you to
use it?

Thanks for the interesting data you'll be able to provide.

--

Ulysses