Let the flaming begin...

Adobe has an article on their website now, advocating PC's over Mac's for their products, due to the PC having an impressive speed advantage over the Mac's.

You just know they're going to get ~5,000 emails threatening to boycott them, and while I can't fault the benchmarks themselves, especially with the particular applications used, for the life of me I can't imagine why adobe would post it.

Sure, I can see that they might often get asked the question about which platform one should choose by those buying their products... but generally in those types of cases one would be pretty mum, saying things like "Our software works great on both platforms." to avoid pissing either platform's rabid fan base off.

I dunno, I'm still in shock after using the 300MHz iBook running OS9 and Outlook Express a few days ago, compared to my 667 Powerbook sitting right next to it running 10.2.4. I honestly couldn't believe just how fast it was doing the simple things, like opening an email message.

In Outlook for OS9 on a 300MHz machine with 4 megs of VRAM it was instantaneous, by which I mean the message opened and displayed before the enter key had even sprung back. It's far from instantaneous in either Apple's Mail or Entourage in OSX on my 667MHz Powerbook with 16megs of VRAM, to the point where I can't view stuff unless its in the preview pane.

Way to go Apple, taking a computer that is an order of magnitude faster than a model years older, and made it an order of magnitude slower than the older model for simple, basic things, all with one OS update. Heh, so maybe I'm a little biased at the moment...

I dunno, a ton of Apple's professional users are at a major crossroads due to the switch to OSX and the schism it has caused, and maybe companies like Adobe doing this will help accelerate whatever Apple has planned.

I have to admit though I'm honestly worried at this point, as a 1.8GHz PPC 970 just won't cut it, and a dually 1.8GHz machine would just let it help keep up for awhile... not the order of magnitude people need or want. The "If we build it, they will come" mentality Apple is prone just might not be cutting it anymore.

In the past I've been annoyed and pissed off about the speed and component issues with OSX and Apple's hardware, but now I'm just plain worried.