Photoshop Runs Faster On MacIntel XP

Ever since Apple released its Bootcamp software, it has generated a buzz around its products like never before. People have been installing Windows XP on Macs and running all kinds of benchmarks on games and applications. One such test run by Cnet news.com actually claims Photoshop actually runs faster on Intel Macs running Windows XP than on normal PCs.With Windows XP Pro running on a 2.0GHz iMac Core Duo, we ran our Photoshop test in less than half the time it took with the same system running OS X 10.4.5: 2 minutes 49 seconds versus 6 minutes 30 seconds to be exact.The reason is that while Photoshop on Mac OS is currently not optimized to run on an Intel chip on a Mac system, the story is not the same when you run Windows XP on the Mac's Intel processor. The report adds that an Intel iMac beat Pentium D PCs from Dell and Gateway when running Photoshop on XP.