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Subject: [OM] Re: iMac for Workflow
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:15:22 -0500
Most of my work is exposure adjustments when I screw up on the flash 
work at events or else skin retouching on portraits.  I assume Lightroom 
will be perfect for the first but PhotoShop or Picture Window will be 
used on the second.

Chuck Norcutt

swisspace wrote:

> CS2 is much much slower than 7 to start, I see about 10  to 12 secs 
> startup time for photoshop 7. Maybe soe cs2 users can post their windows 
> startup times.
> 
> But if you just use photoshop to tweak your photos and not to add people 
> in etc then once you have tried lightroom you won't use photoshop much 
> and as you can multitask on these machines you can find plenty of other 
> stuff to do while you wait.
> 
> Ianw
> 
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
>>Oooh!  'Tis a bit slooooow.  I've never thought about timing PhotoShop 
>>startup... probably because I've never much noticed it.  I only have PS 
>>7 and not CS but I do have Win 2000 on my wheezy 5 year old 1.2GHz AMD 
>>machine.  But it does have 1-1/4GB RAM so I'm sure that helps.
>>
>>First time start on my machine is 8 seconds.  That's without loading any 
>>image.  Obviously some DLL's get left in memory after shutting it down 
>>since restarting it with a call from BreezeBrowser and passing it a 7MP 
>>JPEG from the 5D at the same time takes only 6 seconds.
>>
>>Think I'll stay here a while longer.  :-)
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>swisspace wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Unfortunately I can't give a startup time for cs2 on windows 2000 
>>>(parallels) as it requires sp4 and I don't want to install that, but it 
>>>takes around 35 secs to start in the mac environment on my intel macbook 
>>>(dual 1.83 Ghz not latest chips).  It is slower than the g4,g5  mac 
>>>machines, but to be honest for photography I am beginning to think that 
>>>lightroom is the holy grail depending upon how they price it, it is the 
>>>osx front end to photo manipulation software I have been looking for and 
>>>its a universal binary, I don't see me using CS2 very much at all, still 
>>>I chanced on a half price upgrade of cs2 so it wasn't too bad an 
>>>investment.  Once running though it is fine to use.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>IanW
>>>
>>>Chris Barker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't find it a problem, either on my Core Duo MacBook or on my  
>>>>Core 2 Duo iMac.  The only delay is in the immediate startup when  
>>>>Rosetta starts (presumably); that delay is miniscule and the  
>>>>operation thereafter seems to be fine.
>>>>
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