Intel Imac or Dual 1.42 G4

I have a first generation Intel Imac w/2gigs Ram. I also have a G4 dual 1.42 with 2 gigs ram. Is there much difference in performance doing Photoshop ( CS2 )? Because I would like to retire my G4 if the IMac is compatable in performance.

Your posting is off-topic, but I'll respond to your question anyways!
Photoshop CS2 isn't a Universal Binary, so it won't run natively on the Intel-based iMac. It will run through Rosetta emulation. I don't know how much performance loss you will encounter by doing this, but according to this post on macintouch.com, an Intel-based Mac performing one effect in Photoshop is much slower than a Powerbook G4 (one processor):
------quote---------
Steve Laskevitch
I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor, and hoped the Intel iMac would be a lovely addition to my classroom. I'll save the hopes of booting Windows on them (I have clients/students who demand such) for another day.
But I needed to know if Photoshop CS2 could perform adequately for a classroom environment. So I created an automation to put 2 of my machines and an iMac Core Duo to the test.
The Photoshop Action creates a roughly 30MB doc, creates a pastoral scene, sharpens, performs a complicated "Lens Blur", a "Lens Distortion", color corrects, colorizes, masks and quite a few other time consuming things.
Here are some almost scientific results:
iMac 2.1 GHz G5, 1.5 GB RAM: 1 min. 55 sec
Powerbook 17" 1 GHz G4, 1 GB RAM: 4 min. 45 sec
iMac 2 GHz Core Duo, 1 GB RAM: 7 min. 45 sec
I'm grateful to the manager of the Apple Store for taking a chance on me by installing Photoshop (it was NOT installed on the Intel box, not surprisingly)
So now I'm hungry for CS2 Universal Binaries. I just wish Apple had shared more with Adobe before releasing these boxes so we wouldn't have to wait quite so long to take advantage of their power.
--------end quote---------
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/imacintel/topic2074.html
More information about Adobe's stance on Intel-based Macs can be found in this PDF:
http://www.adobe.com/products/pdfs/intelmacsupport.pdf

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Welcome to the forum swatkins!
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[email protected]
http://www.coloradofilmschool.net (facility I teach at part time)

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Thanks
Russ Jacobson
[email protected]

Ok appears I solved my problem but not sure why.
While I was posting this around I stumbled on a solution so my question is why. I read somehwere about rebooting the router even thoug it is connected to the iMac and my internet works fine there. Well I rebooted that and the internet for my ibook came back instantly. So since the ibook is sharing the imac connection to my cable modem via rouer using the airport on the iMac why would the router block my iBook and not iMac that is directly wired to the old router (it is not a wireless router)
I want to learn why this now works so I can deal with it more effectively in future.
Thanks,
Russ Jacobson

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I am running OSX Tiger 10.4.11 on an iMac G5 PowerPC from 2006. If I upgrade my hardware to a brand new Intel iMac running Mountain Lion as I am considering, how do I best migrate from my old machine to the new, problem free?
I believe that I can't upgrade beyond 10.4.11 on my G5 as it isn't supported so my problem is a dual upgrade/migration one!
I'm also aware that I can't run PPC software on an Intel Mac but I'm really having trouble getting my head around the problem of such a large, combined hardware and OS upgrade! HELP - what do I need to do?? Simple explantions only please!
PS - Apologies if this aimed at the wrong community or it is not presented correctly - it's my first post!
Many thanks,
Len57

Thanks Mende1; I know that PPC apps won't function on Intel machines but I can migrate the Universal apps, right? There is such a large gap between Tiger and Mountain Lion - can I still migrate files directly from one to the other taking the Universal apps as well? Sorry, I'm not very computer savvy!
Len57

Intel Imac or Dual 1.42 G4

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