Adobe Illustrator CS2 -- Rosetta vs. Parallels

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by cbcarbaj, Apr 14, 2006.

  1. cbcarbaj

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    <b>Adobe Illustrator CS2 Benchmark -- Rosetta vs. Parallels</b>

    So, which is the faster Adobe Illustrator CS2? OS X version via Rosetta or Windows XP under Parallels?

    I wanted to know as Illustrator seemed painfully slow under OS X and harder to use than Photoshop under Rosetta.

    Some quick informal testing:

    Illustrator CS2 Start up first time

    OS X -- 46 seconds
    Windows XP Parallels -- 46 seconds (seemed to finish faster but spent about 4-5 seconds thinking about if it was activated yet which it is not)

    Open "Kustom Kulture" file in the Sample Art folder:
    OS X -- 17 seconds
    Windows XP Parallels -- 12 seconds

    Illustrator CS2 Startup second time:
    OS X -- 17 seconds
    Windows XP Parallels -- 8 seconds

    Overall the virtualized version seemed significantly faster and more responsive. Pretty amazing.

    Test machine:

    Mac Mini Core Duo 1.67GHz
    2 GB RAM
    100GB 5400 RPM HDD
    OS X 10.4.6
    Parallels Beta 3
     
    Last edited: Apr 14, 2006

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