CS5 Performance
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well I'm not using AE that much these days but it crashed more then few times when importing assets as well as exporting to Media Encoder (both AE and Premier).
Photoshop CS5 doesn't crash often but the biggest issue I have with Photoshop is mysterious slows downs that last seconds. For example, when I go into Layer Effects and click to change color of the gradient. Sometimes it stalls for seconds and the suddenly just unblocks.
It also happens when exporting files to JPGs or PNGs .. Sometimes it goes right away, sometimes it will stall and go into some kind of loop I don't know and take like 20 seconds to get working again. Sometimes it won't start working again and Photoshop will crash.
Oh, Flash.. what to say about Flash. That thing on Mac is just absolutely dreadful. During a working day, I have at least 10-20 crashes. I've boiled down to fonts. I've actually used pre-release of Flash CS5 and these are bugs for sure. I've noticed them before and they haven't been fixed with release.
On PC.... CS5 works great.. All apps in fact.. I did have same problems with AE and Premier but I think they fixed that with the latest set of updates and interestingly enough Flash CS5 doesn't crash on some things that it does on Mac.
And my Mac Pro is
8-core 2.8ghz Mac Pro
Snow Leopard 10.6.4
Dual 8800GTs
12Gb RAM
3x 1.5Tb drives- That is very interesting. I haven't tried it on a PC, I'd hate to realize that it was snappier in windows vs Mac OS.nthkl