Quote Originally Posted by ImaNihilist View Post
I wonder if you are actually seeing a CPU bottleneck or something else, like little-to-no GPU acceleration.

Photoshop 3D performance is better on Windows than on OS X. And trying to do 3D on an Intel IGP is a lost cause, even with Ivy Bridge. When you run Photoshop on a Windows desktop all the 3D rendering is done on the video card.

When I say people use MacBook Pro's instead of Mac Pros I'm not talking about the 13". It's exclusively the 15". The only person in my office with a 13" is actually me, because I bring my own machine.
I plan on getting an iMac when they release the refresh. I'm finding the MacBook Pro 13" to not be up to what I need as a primary development computer. I haven't decided if I am going to keep it or sell it to recoup some of the cost yet. I didn't know what to expect when I started down this road, so I don't regret buying it. It's damn fast for normal activities. I'm extremely happy that I didn't get an Air though. The SSD would already be pretty full unless I went with a 256GB model, but that was expensive especially with the 8GB of RAM upgrade.

27", 16GB, Ivy iMac is in my future if they would release the damn thing. I'll add an SSD myself.