Hi, can anyone tell me if Flash CS3 (both software and player) performance
improves over intel macs?
i had to change to PC because MX 2004 professional and version 8 were
unusable on my G4 with 1.25Gb ram, To much lag to do even basic things like
moving the timeline and doubleclicking symbols to edit them. I consider
switching back yo mac if performance on intel is improved.

Also flash player is also bad on mac, adobe please fix!!

CS3 runs great on my new mac pro :) very fast.

I'm on 2.16 Intel MacBook with 2gb of RAM, running Flash 8, and the speed
difference from that to my 3 year old P4 HP laptop with 512mb and crap video
card is almost negligible. Very, very disappointing. Quite frequently there's a
2-3 second pause after clicking a text box before I can actually work on it.

I hope CS3 is better.

I have both an old 1.33 GHZ powerbook and an Intel mac.

Flash CRAWLS LIKE A WORM THROUGH MOLASSES on the powerbook -- I would not
recommend anyone try to use this bloatware on an old machine. Intels are fine.
Thank you adobe for making a 3 year old laptop obsolete!

I have an old AlBook G4 1.67 2GB and I actually think CS3 works great. There is
a huge thread about this very issue going on at the moment so you might want to
take a look there. I never had Flash 8, but MX04 also ran just fine on my
laptop.

As far as player performance, it has sped up a lot with AS3 and Flash plugin
9. (Even if you publish AS2 for Flash 9!). I Don't know if there is true parity
between the systems, but it is certainly faster.

I've always thought it a good idea to develop on a Mac. If you can make your
animations look smooth and good playing back in the Mac version of the player
then you know they will look good across the board. I can't tell you how many
sites (thankfully fewer these days) where I go and everything just crawls and
chugs along. It is usually due to over high frame rates and excess transparency
or animated raster images. (And I'm talking about the kind that even if it did
move smoothly it wouldn't be worth it!)