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It depends on the software in question, but yeah, a lot of it actually was faster even on era-appropriate hardware. An example that stands out in my mind is Ph
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
It depends on the software in question, but yeah, a lot of it actually was faster even on era-appropriate hardware.
An example that stands out in my mind is Photoshop 7, CS1, and maybe (memory is a little blurry) CS2. It felt considerably more responsive running on a thermally-non-ideal iMac with a single core PowerPC G5 and spinning rust hard disk than PS CC does today on a well cooled M-series MBP or custom built Ryzen 5950X tower with a 7000MB/s PCI-E 4.0 SSD.
That's just ridiculous. Yes, Photoshop has taken on some functionality since then but there is no excuse for anything to feel laggardly on such powerful hardware when it ran great on comparatively pedestrian machines 15 years ago.