Posted March 31st, 2006, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist

I've been asked often to characterize the performance of Adobe applications like Photoshop and After Effects running under Rosetta on the Intel based MacBook Pro and iMac Core Duo. You see, only Adobe's Lightroom Beta runs in Universal Binary.

So to illustrate relative performance of Adobe apps running under Rosetta, we tested Photoshop CS2 and After Effects 7 on three systems.
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MacBook Pro CD/2.0 -- Apple Intel MacBook Pro with 2.0GHz Core Duo and 2GB of memory
PowerMac G5/2.0 -- Apple Dual Single-Core G5/2.0GHz Power Mac with 2GB of memory
PowerBook G4/1.67 -- Apple PowerBook G4/1.67GHz with 2GB of memory