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by Mike McNamee Published 01/02/2014

Performanc The performance differences between Macs and PCs is an area ripe with teasing and debate (and your editor admits to much of it). Differences in 'time to open Photoshop' and the time to start the operating system are not particularly relevant, you only do them once a day and they also depend on how much stuff you have to load and start up in the morning! Time to open and process files are, however, relevant because you do that lots of times each day. We chose to open a 331MB TIFF file from a USB pen drive into Photoshop CC and then apply the new Smart Sharpen. The results are tabled below:

Operation	PC	iMac
Open File	15s	10s
Smart Sharpen	12m 44s	4m 20s

Specification	OS	RAM	CPU
iMac	10.8.4	8GB	2.7GHz Intel Core i5
PC	PC Windows 7 SP1	16GB	2.7GHz 2x Quad Core

At first cut then the Mac has the edge in performance speed and thestandout feature is the dreadfully slow Smart Sharpen at 12 minutes perfile on a very muscular PC is almost useless.

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