CS5 Performance
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"it's all 64bit now, so you need to watch how much you give to each app a bit mire"
Not true, Photoshop and After Effects are both 64Bit, the rest is still the same shit it's always been.
After Effects is the only one that will truly benefit from multiple cores and piles of ram because it's the one that was built from the ground up with that in mind. Photoshop on the other hand still uses the same old crap code to do gaussian blurs etc which is all probably still single core code.Photoshop CS5 is definitely leaner, more on a par with CS1/2 so it does feel faster but thats only because 3/4 slowed it down so fucking much. 64bit will make a difference for print people, web people wont notice any difference because the resolution is so low.
The only real performance update across the board is the GPU stuff which is good in some ways (better colour picker/zoom) and worse in others (blurry guides, weird bounding box errors, buggy as fuck)Things like Flash are always going to suck, it's a complete waste of money giving a Flash developer a machine like a MacPro because Flash wont even come close to using that power because of the antiquated way it's been programmed and is too late for a total rewrite.