Thanks to Mackey D for pointing me in the direction of this article over at Rob Galbraith DPI!
In January 2003, we published a report comparing the processing performance of the Mac and the PC in pro digital photography. At that time, a single processor Pentium 4 PC was shown to be considerably quicker at a variety of tasks than a dual processor G4 Mac. It's now a year later, and a lot has changed in the Mac world: Apple has moved its Power Mac desktop line to the G5, a much more powerful processor than the one it replaces. The company has also released OS X 10.3, a sweeping revision to the operating system driving modern computers from Apple. It has been 12 months of solid progress for the Mac folks.
Meanwhile, all of the RAW file processing, image editing and photo cataloging applications that comprised the performance testing last year have been updated at least once, while new applications have emerged as well. Nothing stops the march of application software introductions and updates, and the year 2003 was no exception.
A Report on Processing Performance
In January 2003, we published a report comparing the processing performance of the Mac and the PC in pro digital photography. At that time, a single processor Pentium 4 PC was shown to be considerably quicker at a variety of tasks than a dual processor G4 Mac. It's now a year later, and a lot has changed in the Mac world: Apple has moved its Power Mac desktop line to the G5, a much more powerful processor than the one it replaces. The company has also released OS X 10.3, a sweeping revision to the operating system driving modern computers from Apple. It has been 12 months of solid progress for the Mac folks.
Meanwhile, all of the RAW file processing, image editing and photo cataloging applications that comprised the performance testing last year have been updated at least once, while new applications have emerged as well. Nothing stops the march of application software introductions and updates, and the year 2003 was no exception.
A Report on Processing Performance
