Mac G5 with Intel chip

"Nick van der Waarden" wrote in message

Yesterday, I was ready to spend several thousands of dollars on a new MAC G5. The salesman who is also a heavy Photoshop user talked me out of buying
the computer.
His reason was that the currents Photoshop CS2 was not properly optimised for the new MAC G5 with the Intel chip. His advice was to wait until the new
version of Photoshop comes out which he felt was later on this year.
Can anyone clarify this situation for me?

Yes, there is no native version of Photoshop for the Intel Mac. The result is that Photoshop runs reasonably fast in emulation mode on that platform, but not as fast as a PPC G5.

You have an excellent salesman, BTW. Most of them would just sell you the machine and be done with it.
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Mike Russell wrote:

"Nick van der Waarden" wrote in message

Yesterday, I was ready to spend several thousands of dollars on a new MAC G5. The salesman who is also a heavy Photoshop user talked me out of buying
the computer.
His reason was that the currents Photoshop CS2 was not properly optimised for the new MAC G5 with the Intel chip. His advice was to wait until the new
version of Photoshop comes out which he felt was later on this year.
Can anyone clarify this situation for me?

Yes, there is no native version of Photoshop for the Intel Mac. The result is that Photoshop runs reasonably fast in emulation mode on that platform, but not as fast as a PPC G5.

You have an excellent salesman, BTW. Most of them would just sell you the machine and be done with it.

At the same time, you might just go ahead with the purchase, unless you are in need of an immediate replacement machine to do heavy lifting with PS filters or lots of layers, etc. on large files.

I have a MacBookPro, and it runs PS all right, but not as fast as my dual G-5 on the non-Intel chip.

PS CS III or whatever it’ll be called, may not be out until 2007. In the meantime, Adobe’s Lightroom is pretty neat for RAW conversions.

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John McWilliams

Thanks Mike for your quick reply. It makes good sense.

Yes, I’m pretty happy with the salespeople in my ‘Apple shop’. They’ve never tried the hard sell on me.

It’s not often that I have enough money to ‘burn’ and come home empty handed from the ‘Apple shop’.

Kind regards,
Nick

In article <C0B1D459.722A%>, Nick van der
Waarden wrote:

Yesterday, I was ready to spend several thousands of dollars on a new MAC G5. The salesman who is also a heavy Photoshop user talked me out of buying the computer.
His reason was that the currents Photoshop CS2 was not properly optimised for the new MAC G5 with the Intel chip. His advice was to wait until the new version of Photoshop comes out which he felt was later on this year.
Can anyone clarify this situation for me?

There is no such thing as a "Mac G5 with the Intel chip", nor will/can there ever be. The G5 is the latest (last?) incarnation of the Motorola/IBM PowerPC chip on which Macs have been based for the last decade or so.

Apple are in the process of migrating their entire line to Intel CPUs: thus far, we have the Mini, the MacBook (old iBook), the MacBook Pro (old PowerBook) and the iMac. The desktop (G5) line has not yet moved.

Photoshop CS2 is entirely optimised for the G5 and will run at its fastest on this Mac (how that compares with the Windoze versions is another matter entirely).

In due course, desktop Macs will be available which will have Intel chips inside them. CS2 will run on those too, just as it does on the current models with Intel chips, but probably more slowly than on the G5 because it will be running under the PowerPC emulator, Rosetta.

Next year, Photoshop CS3 (or whatever they choose to call it) is expected to be released and will, probably (certainly?), be a Universal Binary, able to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel processors.

Whether that information affects your decision will depend rather on your need for speed and new kit now.

Jeremy

In article <C0B1D459.722A%>,
Nick van der Waarden wrote:

His reason was that the currents Photoshop CS2 was not properly optimised for the new MAC G5 with the Intel chip. His advice was to wait until the new version of Photoshop comes out which he felt was later on this year.

Wow. The salesman is a moron.

There is no such thing as a "Mac G5 with an Intel chip." The "G5" refers to the PowerPC G5 chip. "G5 with an Intel chip" is a contradiction; it’s like saying "Pentium 4 with an AMD chip."

Photoshop is optimized for G5 chips; it is not (yet) optimized for Intel chips.

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tacit wrote:

In article <C0B1D459.722A%>,
Nick van der Waarden wrote:

His reason was that the currents Photoshop CS2 was not properly optimised for the new MAC G5 with the Intel chip. His advice was to wait until the new version of Photoshop comes out which he felt was later on this year.

Wow. The salesman is a moron.

On the contrary. Judging from his advise, this salesman knows very well what he’s talking about. I doubt very much he ever used the name ‘Intel G5’. I think it’s the OP who made that one up.

There is no such thing as a "Mac G5 with an Intel chip." The "G5" refers to the PowerPC G5 chip. "G5 with an Intel chip" is a contradiction; it’s like saying "Pentium 4 with an AMD chip."

Photoshop is optimized for G5 chips; it is not (yet) optimized for Intel chips.

And that is exaclty what this ‘moron’ told the OP as well.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl

in article 1hgsi48.1wwb16aa6wqggN%, Johan W. Elzenga at
wrote on 12/6/06 6:52 AM:

tacit wrote:

In article <C0B1D459.722A%>,
Nick van der Waarden wrote:

His reason was that the currents Photoshop CS2 was not properly optimised for the new MAC G5 with the Intel chip. His advice was to wait until the new version of Photoshop comes out which he felt was later on this year.

Wow. The salesman is a moron.

On the contrary. Judging from his advise, this salesman knows very well what he’s talking about. I doubt very much he ever used the name ‘Intel G5’. I think it’s the OP who made that one up.

There is no such thing as a "Mac G5 with an Intel chip." The "G5" refers to the PowerPC G5 chip. "G5 with an Intel chip" is a contradiction; it’s like saying "Pentium 4 with an AMD chip."

Photoshop is optimized for G5 chips; it is not (yet) optimized for Intel chips.

And that is exaclty what this ‘moron’ told the OP as well.

Thanks everyone for your input. You’ve all given me food for thought and clarified the situation for me.

I don’t feel the salesman was a moron. He put customer satisfaction before making just making a sale. Clearly a satisfied customer will come back.

Nick