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| I recently purchased my first MAC. It's a
20 inch iMAC G5 with a 2GHz processor and a Gig of ram. |
| All of my comparisons are going to be how
it compares to using a calibrated Sony Artisan on a 3.4 GHz PC with 2 Gigs
of ram. I'm not so much interested in the speed of Photoshop, but in the
accuracy of how the images look across both systems. The Sony Artisan is
considered a reference monitor and came with it's own calibration system
and is probably the most accurate CRT monitor. If it weren't discontinued
I'd buy a second Artisan for my other computer today. |
| I'll get more into it later when I get
Photoshop CS2 and the Spyder 2Pro for the MAC, but currently it's
uncalibrated and I'm using Photoshop 7 on the MAC compared to using CS2 on
the PC. |
| For this scan of a mixed media piece, I
opened the raw scan on both computers and used the same tools, making
judgments based on how the images viewed on screen. Then I brought the MAC
image over to the PC and opened the two images side by side in Photoshop
and did a screen capture. The right
side image is from the iMAC and the left was worked on on the PC. They are
almost identical, but the right might be just a hair darker, which can be
attributed to the brighter LCD on the iMAC or just the ways the tools were
used in Photoshop. I will be doing more accurate comparisons as soon as I
get CS2 for the MAC. But for now, it's easy to see that both images are
perfectly usable. |
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