iMac Intel has arrived! — #3
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Originally Posted by mduell
Can you run the Photoshop benchmark from the PowerMac forum?
Can I download a Photoshop Demo from Adobe? I do not own a copy.
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iMac Intel has arrived! — #4
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Originally Posted by ravenz
Can I download a Photoshop Demo from Adobe? I do not own a copy.
Found the demo link on Adobe - 300MB. Let me go start the download proce…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #5
Okay, this is a seriously superficial question.
What does booting up look/sound like? Is it the gray Apple logo and familiar chime we have come to know and love, or is there a no…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #6
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Originally Posted by Robert25
Okay, this is a seriously superficial question.
What does booting up look/sound like? Is it the gray Apple logo and familiar chime we have…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #7
That's good to know. There were rumors that Apple was going to change the boot chime, but those were apparently incorrect.
To tell the truth, I was afraid booting up would look li…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #8
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Originally Posted by ravenz
Same old boot chime (this seemed like the perfect opportunity for Apple to update the boot chime), same grey Apple. The biggest change is boot…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #9
I guess I have a few questions if you don't mind. I have placed an order for the macbookpro, so since my questions are about software hopefully you can help?
I am worried about r…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #10
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Originally Posted by ravenz
Boot Time!
From start of boot chime to login window:
#1: 18.91 seconds
#2: 17.74 seconds
#3: 17.68 seconds
Not sure how this compares to ot…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #11
Quote:
Originally Posted by mduell
Can you run the Photoshop benchmark from the PowerMac forum?
1:05 (65 seconds) with Photoshop CS2 (v9) running through Rosetta.
iMac Intel has arrived! — #12
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Originally Posted by ero2
I guess I have a few questions if you don't mind. I have placed an order for the macbookpro, so since my questions are about software hopefully…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #13
normally when you buy a new mac it asks if you want to transfer blah blah to your new mac, you say yes and it says plug in your new computer and it offers to transfer programs, itu…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #14
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Originally Posted by ravenz
Rosetta doesn't seem slow. Even loading Photoshop wasn't too bad. I didn't feel like I was waiting, really.
18 seconds for Photoshop CS2 …
iMac Intel has arrived! — #15
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Originally Posted by ero2
normally when you buy a new mac it asks if you want to transfer blah blah to your new mac, you say yes and it says plug in your new computer and…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #16
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Originally Posted by ero2
I looked up other times and it says 1.67 GHZ Powerbook with 1gig of ram is 147 secs, so this seems good
And this is through Rosetta (65 sec…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #17
Thanks so much for all this info, ravenz! I was about to order a G5 iMac on Tuesday, but the Apple online store was closed. When it reopened I had to rethink everything. But one co…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #18
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Originally Posted by leery
Thanks so much for all this info, ravenz! I was about to order a G5 iMac on Tuesday, but the Apple online store was closed. When it reopened I …
iMac Intel has arrived! — #19
Do you have any OS X games of any type? Will they run? (if so how fast)
iMac Intel has arrived! — #20
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Originally Posted by Nebrie
Do you have any OS X games of any type? Will they run? (if so how fast)
I was playing World of Warcraft - worked fine (although Ironforg…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #21
Do you have a link to your XBench tests? The numbers will prbably be off, because XBench is probably not optimized for the Intel systems, yet.
iMac Intel has arrived! — #22
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Originally Posted by t_hah
Do you have a link to your XBench tests? The numbers will prbably be off, because XBench is probably not optimized for the Intel systems, yet.
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iMac Intel has arrived! — #23
Quote:
Originally Posted by ravenz
Boot Time!
From start of boot chime to login window:
#1: 18.91 seconds
#2: 17.74 seconds
#3: 17.68 seconds
Not sure how this compares to ot…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #24
Do you happen to have AppleWorks on the new iMac? If so, how does it seem? Faster, slower any noticeable difference?
Thanks,
Doug
iMac Intel has arrived! — #25
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Originally Posted by Douglashh
Do you happen to have AppleWorks on the new iMac? If so, how does it seem? Faster, slower any noticeable difference?
Thanks,
Doug
So…
iMac Intel has arrived! — #26
just one question which is probably dumd but when you minimize program and folder windows does it still have the same slurp look to it when it drops down to the bottom right?
iMac Intel has arrived! — #27
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Originally Posted by jjlannoo
That boots 15-20 seconds faster then my 2.1GHz G5
cool
With boot time like 20 seconds, most all of us will shut down overnite, inste…