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Is CS3 faster on a PC?
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:28 pmby Antsl
Hi all,
Just a quick question... is anyone using CS3 on a PC and is it noticeably faster than CS2?
Cheers, Ants
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:01 pmby DVEous
... Obsolete ...
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:04 pmby obzelite
haven't had a massive play, but it doesn't seem to be faster
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:29 pmby marc
On my PC, it's definitely faster
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:29 pmby DVEous
... Obsolete ...
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:00 pmby iGBH
I didn't notice any difference. No scientific testing done however to quantify.
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:18 pmby sirhc55
Not on a PC but the difference between opening CS2 (45secs) and CS3 (4secs) is dramatic
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:31 pmby stubbsy
sirhc55 wrote:Not on a PC but the difference between opening CS2 (45secs) and CS3 (4secs) is dramatic
Chris
Is that with the exact same plugins in both versions?
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:36 pmby Laurie
A lot faster on my work machine compared to CS2
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:39 pmby Geoff
It's a lot faster on BOTH my ALDI computer's, laptop and desktop machines (which are STILL going strong!!)
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:19 pmby sirhc55
stubbsy wrote:sirhc55 wrote:Not on a PC but the difference between opening CS2 (45secs) and CS3 (4secs) is dramatic
Chris
Is that with the exact same plugins in both versions?
Good point Peter - I do have more on the CS2 version - well picked
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:54 amby Nnnnsic
That would be a rather hard sort of thing to qualify. You'd need an identical spec Intel Mac and Intel PC to test this with for accuracy.
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:40 amby radar
Chris,
sirhc55 wrote:Good point Peter - I do have more on the CS2 version - well picked
Do you have an Intel Mac? If you do, it would certainly go much faster as CS3 is a Universal application while CS2 wasn't so it had to go through Rosetta which slowed it down.
From an Intel Mac perspective, it is a big difference. But that's nothing to do with the original question.
Cheers,
André
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:46 pmby jdear
+1 to CS3 faster than CS2.
I find it loads a heck of a lot quicker and editing in 16bit is faster.
J
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:57 pmby Matt. K
CS3!!!! I'm still learning how to use CS properly! 
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Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:20 amby Grev
A little off topic, does the now bottom spec 3Ghz CPUs run photoshop significantly slower than the top of the spec ones now?
Provided having equal RAM of course.
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Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:49 amby adamj123
I have also found this to be true, was originally using CS2 but upgraded to CS3 and noticed a significant increase in speed, both loading times and processing...