PowerBook (G4) VS. Macbook for Adobe???

Hi,

I am curentally using the "OS we do not speak of" and I am looking to buy a mac. I need a laptop and I am going to be doing primarily Adobe Creative Suite programs. I read the following on the adobe web site:

www.adobe.com/products/pdfs/intelmacsupport.pdf

Under the performace section it says that the Powermac processors will out perform the intel based systems.

So should I be looking for a PowerBook here? Its just hard to think that a dual core processor may run slower then a single core G4.

THANKS FOR YOUR INSIGHT!
-Todd

The processor doesn't run slower, it's just that the App will run under Rosetta, which emulates the PPC instruction set on the Intel Macs.

This is true for the time being as Adobe programs will run slow through Rosetta emulation, however keep in mind when the Universal Binary of Adobe CS is released it will be a different story.

Mattlike said:

This is true for the time being as Adobe programs will run slow through Rosetta emulation, however keep in mind when the Universal Binary of Adobe CS is released it will be a different story.

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Excuse me ignorance, but will that be a patch or will I have to wait for CS3?

I have yet to see a MacBook or MacBook Pro experience any serious lag or slowdown when running CS2. Lots of people at the school I go to have them and they are still fairly quick. Sometimes palettes or filters take an extra second or two to render, but outside of that there really is little to no difference in the performance from what I can see.

todditami said:

Excuse me ignorance, but will that be a patch or will I have to wait for CS3?

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Adobe has said that CS3 will be Universal. CS2 will likely never be.