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Dual Core versus Quad Core
We need to add a new machine to our edit environment. All of our current systems are 2 x 3GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon machines running Tiger. The issue is that Apple only ships these machines with Leopard. We do not want to move to Leopard yet due to XSAN and server concerns. We could install a 2 x 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon running Tiger. Do you think the loss of speed versus the compatibility is worth the trade off?
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I suppose that would be up to you. Don’t think running one app at a time will change the feel of the machine a whole lot, but running multiple apps at the same time might. I’ve no problem running a compression in Compressor, and rendering in FCP, and running Motion all at the same time, but figure that running a quad core machine instead of an 8 core, I would see a slowdown in performance.
That said, it’s not possible to run Tiger on a current dual quad? (I sure don’t know if there’s problems doing it…)
Jerry
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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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The chipsets on the new Mac Pros are not backwards compatible to Tiger. We have the same issue. We need to add a work station but didn’t want to mess with updating Xsan just yet (fiscal year budget stuff). We did find one of the older Tiger 8 cores on PC Connections but it was the last one.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento
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