For how long?
Every new generation of computer has been "woooo look how fast photoshop starts cold now! And Illustrator, so fast!"
... 6 months later <waaaaat is it doing?!>
Every new generation of computer has been "woooo look how fast photoshop starts cold now! And Illustrator, so fast!"
... 6 months later <waaaaat is it doing?!>
What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away
I would jump on an optimised version of Illustrator with the feature set from 10 (or more) years ago.
Genuine question, can't you just install an old version of Illustrator?
The iPad version?
But in this case… man, it feels like Adobe deliberately try to slow down Photoshop and the wider CS suite. I used to use these a lot back in early CS days, but I've used the trials recently and by far the biggest offenders are some of the bad UIs that they've slapped on top of things like creating new documents, or Photoshop's "Home Screen".
They're slow as molasses, provide minimal useful features, and there is an explicit option to turn them off and use the legacy versions (usually a massive red flag to me that a feature is shite).
I had no idea this existed. THANK YOU!
My anecdata last weekend was 60% to 90% JavaScript benchmarks from a loaded 15” to an M1 Air, that coupled with no fans screaming at me sure felt new.
These days it takes 8-15 seconds on a non-M1.
Filters that used to take 50 seconds to run now finish in just a couple.
The point you're making is true with some software. But not Photoshop.
// TODO: Uncomment after keynote demo
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And that's just clock speed. Compare any 2010 chip to something like a Ryzen 5800x and see how the benchmarks scores look.
My point on comparing CPUs remains, and is even more pronounced against a 2002 CPU!