When ‘Upgrade’ means ‘Downgrade’
I just installed CS5 Design Suite on my Mac Pro a week ago, and tonight, I’ve just de-installed it.
I’m now back running CS4, because with CS4, I get performance. I fail to understand why we ‘upgrade’. I think the term ‘upgrade’ is used rather loosely by the software industry. CS5 is like CS2…. Slooooowwwwww!
I was thinking the same thing. I’m running on a three year old MacBook Pro and CS5 seems to take a lot more time rendering. I wonder if it is settings.
Comment by MrNoded — 17 July, 2010 @ 3:10 am
That’s exactly what I’m seeing too. Also, copy and paste from one file into a new layer in another file takes forever.
Perhaps it is settings? Anyone got any ideas about this?
Comment by Bruce Percy — 17 July, 2010 @ 8:19 am
I’ve just looked on Google for entries about CS5 performance on OSX and there are a lot of entries. One of the most promising ones is about OpenGL which might be worth investigating:
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2010/20100702_PhotoshopOpenGL–photoshop.html
Comment by Bruce Percy — 17 July, 2010 @ 8:40 am
You should check out the while CS5 article on DigLloyd
http://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingPhotoshopCS5-Intro.html
Comment by timparkin — 17 July, 2010 @ 10:12 am
Hi Tim,
Some good performance tips in there and the tile refresh seems to be making a huge difference.
I’m in the process of building a new top-spec-mac (with PC components) and 12GB of ram, so I think staying with CS5 will be beneficial as it doesn’t require scratch discs any more if the file can reside in ram.
Comment by Bruce Percy — 18 July, 2010 @ 8:57 am
Yep – I’ve just tweaked my Mac Pro to have 16Gb of RAM and two Western Digital Caviar Black hard drives for scratch drive. I think you’ll still need a good scratch as it is still used for filters and undo even if you haven’t run out of RAM.. I haven’t started using CS5 yet – looking forward to it :-)
Comment by timparkin — 18 July, 2010 @ 5:36 pm