Bare Feats has been busy with their
Mac OS X vs XP tests earlier today and
now this. From what I can tell, they are probably the first site to post some
benchmarks of non-Intel native Adobe apps, specifically Photoshop CS2
and After Effects 7.0. Check out the machines they used, and note the equality of RAM:
- MacBook Pro
CD/2.0 -- Apple Intel MacBook Pro with 2.0GHz Core Duo and 2GB of memory
- PowerMac G5/2.0 -- Apple Dual
Single-Core G5/2.0GHz Power Mac with 2GB of memory
- PowerBook G4/1.67 -- Apple PowerBook G4/1.67GHz with
2GB of memory
Not surprisingly, the PowerMac swept the floor with the MacBook Pro, but to my delight: the
PowerBook didn't perform that much better. In fact, in the After Effects render test, the MacBook actually beat out the
PowerBook.
The SP (Single Processor) Actions test is where you can really see the performance void of Rosetta
apps on the MacBook Pro, as the PowerMac and PowerBook clearly are going home with the prom queen.
Still, I'm
glad to see that the MacBook Pro will perform more or less like my PowerBook G4 when running these pro apps, especially
since I'm living in After Effects these days. Unfortunately, I now must curse Bare Feats for ever performing these
tests, as they got my 'hmm, maybe I
could upgrade' gears grinding again. Thanks guys.
