Adobe CS5 Launch Event

[MrPinkPanther]

I agree that its a lot to most "kids" but not all. I mean Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 bundles are £150 and people afford those so why not a professional piece of software?

[Markeh]

I can't afford £150. I'm hardly a kid either. And I can never find a site in which I can use my school e-mail.

Anyway, just to join the loading time party here. 15 seconds, but this IS on a laptop, and in my defence, I had tweetdeck, msn, chrome, and spotify open.

[Firehorse]

I agree that its a lot to most "kids" but not all. I mean Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 bundles are £150 and people afford those so why not a professional piece of software?

often its a whole family which buys those and at times such as christmas. I would never buy something like that just for myself, I also hate paying anything more than £25 for games no matter how new or good they are.

[Recursion]

You must have a pretty pathetic computer for it to take 1minute! Mine takes about eight seconds to load and thats when I'm doing a lot of other things. Photoshop is a great product.

Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz
4GB 800MHz RAM
8800GT
7200RPM drives
Windows 7 x64

Better than MattGarner's, no reason why it should take so long to load.

[xxMATTGxx]

Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz
4GB 800MHz RAM
8800GT
7200RPM drives
Windows 7 x64

Better than MattGarner's, no reason why it should take so long to load.

Then why does it?

[Firehorse]

Then why does it?

cos he either doesn't maintain it propperly, its full of junk programs slowing it down or he's exaggerating by a long way.

[Recursion]

cos he either doesn't maintain it propperly, its full of junk programs slowing it down or he's exaggerating by a long way.

and the Adobe suite is the only thing that loads slowly... Not exaggerating (may not be 1 minute, but it's easily over 20 - 30 secs)... also "junk programs" being installed (not running) will only slow down hard drive seek times, which is not an issue when it's all defragged in some way.

[Markeh]

Well, Recursion. Lets say it takes 45 seconds to load on your quite decent spec PC.

My fairly rubbish laptop (AMD Athlon X2 QL-65, 2.1Ghz, ATI Mobility 4530, 3Gb DDR2 800 RAM, 5400rpm HDD, Windows 7 32-bit) loads it in........
(I retimed)

13.7 seconds (Anyone disputing that, just say and I'll post screenies (did it on my non-multitasking-capable iPod Touch 2G)

You are quite right, yours SHOULD load quicker than mine AND Matt's. We are forgetting here that there are literally dozens of factors that can contribute to this, such as processes running in the background, programs open at the time of the test, in the case of laptops, what power setting they're on (that time goes down to about 30 seconds when I'm on HPs recommended power plan. this was done on High Performance when plugged in). It all depends. Matt could have had no other programs open, you could have quite easily had stuff like phone syncing software, TweetDeck, Chrome, MSN and other programs open.

[Luke]

and, have you got plugins Tom? They usually slow down loading

[Recursion]

Funny thing is, CS3 never did it.

I have a few brushes installed?