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• • May 1, 2010 at 11:01 am #55611
    Peter Merrison

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    Anyone know if ID CS5 or any of the other apps in the design premium suite utilize the multithreading technology on the i7 intel chip? I'm torn between the i5 (no hyperthreding) and i7 (hyperthreding) imac. No point in spending the extra money if there's no advantage except a small processor speed bump. Thanks, p

  • May 1, 2010 at 2:50 pm #55612
    Aleta El Sheikh

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    Hi, yes it does support multithreading, according to Ann-Marie in her lynda.com tutorial on the new features (which I just finished). You can especially see it at work when exporting large documents to PDF. It hands off the PDF export to another processor while you continue your work. There's a new panel called “Background Tasks” where you can see the progress of export(s).

    As a newspaper designer, you should note the column-spanning, column-splitting, and balance columns features. I think those alone are worth the price of the upgrade.

    To answer your other question, multithreading support started in Photoshop CS4.

  • May 2, 2010 at 10:11 am #55614
    Peter Merrison

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    Thanks! The video explains how ID and PS hand off processor intensive jobs to another physical processor core so these tasks don't hold you up. What still is not completely clear to me is if it's utilizing hyperthreading (I'm guessing this is different than multithreading), meaning the diving of each core into two virtual cores. I'm guessing it is using this.

    Thanks for pointing out the columns features, will look forward to using it when we upgrade in 5 years from now! We just moved from Quark 3.3 last year!!

    I ordered the upgrade already for myself, sounds like the print to online stuff has improved drastically. Regards, p

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