[pov] Re: Apple Snow Leopard & photo apps performance

  • From: James Culbertson <albion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:50:07 -0700

Are you booting into 64bit mode or staying with 32bit?

Snow Leopard boots in 32bit by default. Holding down "64" at start boots to 64bit mode. (And holding down 32 takes it back to 32bit mode).

James


On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Randy Green wrote:

I just upgraded on all my Macs. We use Creative Suite CS3 & all apps, including Photoshop, work fine. I use Aperture, and to be expected, it works fine too. I don't have Lightroom to test, but I have read on other threads that people aren't finding too many problems.

So far, so good!

Randy Green
randygreenphoto.com

On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:14 AM, michael.elenko@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Good Morning,

Last Friday Apple released version 10.6 aka Snow Leopard as a relatively cheap ($29) operating system upgrade for Macs. Visually this version is very similar to v. 10.5 "Leopard" but the improvements are significant internally. This upgrade will only work on Intel-based Macs.

For photographers some initial testing of common applications are showing major performance improvements with Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture.
http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-Performance.html

I usually wait a few months prior to upgrading a computer operating system just to let others deal with the inevitable growing pains, but this time around I've already purchased Snow Leopard. I'll be upgrading within a week or so (still reading user reports) most likely.

If you Mac users out there have upgraded already, please share your experiences here.

An authoritative online resource is:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/snowleopard/index.html

Here's an application compatibility summary:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/snowleopard/topic4883.html#d31aug2009

ME



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