Arriving at my house next week

[Injury]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Upgrade the RAM.

2GB is plenty for most things. Seriously, unless he is doing exceptionally heavy photoshopping or VMing, OS X will fly on 2GB

My iMac gets choked up on 500MB (on disk) ~900MB (on RAM) photoshop files... which is every day. It has 2GB RAM.... and we're talking at least a few files everyday.

It also is... for some reason... pretty poor about flushing the RAM when you close one of these beast files. I don't know enough to know if Photoshop should be doing this or OS X, but it pretty much requires me to restart every couple of hours. It sucks. I dunno... don't wanna threadjack... just saying it to set the bar for what may be considered "enough RAM".

Do you have an intel iMac or PPC iMac? Are you using the latest version of photoshop?

If you were, for example, using CS2 on an intel iMac, you will encounter crap. CS2 is an older PPC app.

Intel iMac, CS2. Interesting that it works out that way. Though there are some people there on the same model iMacs that DO have CS3 and claim to have similar problems, but it could be because they suck with computers. :-X

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Upgrade the RAM.

2GB is plenty for most things. Seriously, unless he is doing exceptionally heavy photoshopping or VMing, OS X will fly on 2GB

My iMac gets choked up on 500MB (on disk) ~900MB (on RAM) photoshop files... which is every day. It has 2GB RAM.... and we're talking at least a few files everyday.

It also is... for some reason... pretty poor about flushing the RAM when you close one of these beast files. I don't know enough to know if Photoshop should be doing this or OS X, but it pretty much requires me to restart every couple of hours. It sucks. I dunno... don't wanna threadjack... just saying it to set the bar for what may be considered "enough RAM".

Do you have an intel iMac or PPC iMac? Are you using the latest version of photoshop?

If you were, for example, using CS2 on an intel iMac, you will encounter crap. CS2 is an older PPC app.

Intel iMac, CS2. Interesting that it works out that way. Though there are some people there on the same model iMacs that DO have CS3 and claim to have similar problems, but it could be because they suck with computers. :-X

It is due to Rosetta. That is how Apple made it so the newer intel machines could run the older PPC code. The issue is then that CS2 is actually having all of its instructions passed through Rosetta first (or last... or the middle... whatever, it is an extra step) and as such that really slows things down.

Take Office 04 for example. When I had 512MB RAM in my system, I could multi-task quite a bit... iTunes, Firefox (at the time), iWeb, Mail, iCal and Address Book all open all the time. But as soon as I opened up Office, things slowed to a crawl. Adding another 512MB pretty much completely eliminated the problem, but I definitely notice that Office just does things slowly.

 

[Kmax82]

I found a beta of Office 2008, and it's still ridiculously slow! So while I used to think most of their slowdown was attributed to Rosetta, I'm beginning to wonder.