Village Idiot
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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i guess no one should post anything ever then...
considering this forum and every other is based soley on the collection of information and opinion gathering to help make the most informed decision possible. might as well just listen to the ads on tv and be done with it.
the point to my posting is that i have a professional viewpoint to offer. i work in computers as i have my whole life. i work with every brand and every OS. i work in a data center with over 2000 servers and i work for a company that has over 20,000 PCs and Laptops floating around. being someome with a lot of experience in the computer field and not as much experience in direct photography i utilize these forums to learn as much as i can about photography and when i think my opinion or knowledge on computers is valuable i try to give it.
and when someone can lay down an alternate viewpoint whether it be biased or not can still help the OP in making an informed decision in the end. i lay down the pros and cons of each and the bottom line is the OP is looking for something to work with in photography. well, sadly mac has left that market and how caters to their "niche" fad following. i've seen a lot of media guys and photo guys here in our marketing department recently switch from the older macs to new IBMs and HPs just due to the fact that they provide a much wider range of products and they offer products that suite exactly their needs. for me, i wanted a desktop replacement on a single platform designed around music and photography. i looked at all options and the Studio was the one that looked like it was designed for me.
bottom line is, when the OP makes a post about a PC they've already made up their mind on and then ask a question like how will Adobe run on this? well, it will run on it period. but it will run much better on any Windows 64-bit platform.
But there's still issues with incompatibility with drivers. If MS was smart, they would have built one 64 bit OS with backwards compatibility to 32 bit.
Anyways, I work in IT, use multiple platforms and everything else. Blah blah blah, I'm a tech god, bow before me my peons type stuff, etc...
There will be no real discernable performance difference between Photo Shop on a well equipped OS X machine and Photo Shop on a Windows 64 bit platform.
You're talking fractions of seconds with filters and actions. You'd only really notice with something like batch processing that would take 30 minutes +. And when Snow Leopard is released, it's going to support OS level routing of processes through multipl CPU's which will make exsisting hardware already faster.