Down here at work my mom was working on an Adobe Illustrator CS file that a customer had given us that was huge! Her dual G4/450 Mac was taking about 90 seconds to open the file then another 45 seconds just to paint the images on the screen. I told her that was rediculous and that we should just work on the file on one of the faster AMDs. We put it on an XP 3000+ with 768 Meg of RAM and a Maxtor 250 Gig. HD, the same drive the Mac has in it, and proceeded to open the file. To my shock it took almost 4 minutes to open and 2 minutes to paint the screen. It has an nVidia GeForce FX5700 in it with 256 Meg of VRAM.

How could this be? Do you think that Illustrator is just optimized for OSX and not XP or what?

Keith