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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Actually I have heard the exact opposite on this. That the tests of PS to run on the new chips even in a beta form are blowing away the PC machines, hands down.<BR>
Sorry Chris.<BR>
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<B>From: </B>Chris Olson <chris.olson@astcomm.net><BR>
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This is the type of stuff that will kill the Mac:<BR>
<a href="http://news.com.com/2061-10794_3-6058301.html?part=rss&tag=6058301&subj=news">http://news.com.com/2061-10794_3-6058301.html?part=rss&tag=6058301&subj=news</a><BR>
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Even after Photoshop is optimized for OS X on x86, Windows is going to blow it away. Mark my words.<BR>
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Mach/XNU is a RISC kernel. It was never designed to run with x86 instructions sets. It's sort of like having a Chevy and you weld a BMW badge to the hood and bolt a BMW engine in it with an adapter plate. It might now say BMW on it but it's still a Chevy.<BR>
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Chris<BR>
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