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Apple Responds to Adobe

Posted by pudge on from the wheeee dept.

Thargok333 writes "Apple calls out Adobe on the 'PC is Faster' article linked from the Adobe website. They state that it is an After Effects bug, which they are working close to Adobe to fix. With Adobe's idea of G4 optimization, I am not impressed that a 'single 1.25 GHz G3' gets beat by a P4 3 GHz."

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  1. The best sentence in the article.. by Nathan+Ramella · · Score: 0, Troll
    Apple points out that its own products outperform After Effects in similar tests.

    Well.. duh.
    Now show me the Apple benchmarking tool written by Apple that'll exersize Apple operating system tricks and I'm sold!

    Oh wait, you just did.

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  2. Re:who the fuck cares? by tdelaney · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually, yes. The vast majority of graphics houses use Macs. They care very much about how fast filters run.

    I have a very good friend who works in a billboard production house. They are often dealing with 40GB (yes, gigabyte) photoshop files. If a single filter they used performed badly, that could well be hours (or even days) lost on the machines performing those transforms.

  3. Gimp by thinkliberty · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is a bigger reason why adobe is dropping support for the Mac. They can't compete with the features of the Gimp and realize in a few years, maybe sooner the Gimp will have more features. Why pay 500 dollars for a Photoshop when you can download the Gimp for free and pay a programmer 250 to add the feature that you need. It's half the cost..