G5 verses MacBookPro shootout (You are not going to believe this!)

[Pierre Jasmin]

We have not received software updates from Apple yet, but I am told it won’t work on MacIntel version as there is simply no support for AE plugins in this version.

Pierre

[Bret Williams]

I actually was hoping that the results would’ve been better than that, but I guess it’s a laptop and the true tower G5 vs. tower Intel will be better. The tower intels should have the next processor, not the core duos, and will have a better graphics card.

But yeah, the new core duos should definitely beat the G5. The G5 is 3 year old technology and the Cores are 3 month old tech.

[Bret Williams]

I think you can look forward to tower announcements at WWDC in August. Also when Intel announces the next chip. The towers have to be a bigger bump than this.

[Erik Lindahl]

These figures do seem nice, however, the macintels still are no match for a Quad G5.

Come August and we might see really fast Intel Towers. The Core Duo is a mobility chip mainly so.

Sad that Adobe won’t be coming with intelified versions untill at least a year away (After Effects, sob sob

[Filip Vandoorne]

you could connect you macbookpro to your xsr over gigaspeed ethernet.
limit will be approx 90Mb/s. would be enough to test the renderspeeds

[George Loch]

Keep in mind that we are talking about a laptop – not a 50 lb desktop. These performance numbers are significant because you get this kind of performance from a 6 Lb, 1″ thick package. It makes mobile production much more interesting. I am also confident that when we finally get Adobe on board that you will have the closest thing to a desktop replacement in the Apple world ever – the PB G4 is just not fast enough IMO.

-gl

[Mitchji]

[Peter Wiggins] “So there you go, as I said not very scientific but a good reason to wait until the Intel boxes come out…”

Hi Peter,

Thank you very much! Very interesting.

When you have a chance (no hurry) would you mind doing a compressor comparison, maybe MPEG2 compression of a 10 or 15 minute clip?

Another interesting test would be to do a small test using Graemes standards conversion SW for a short PAL to NTSC or vice versa.

What I am really looking forward to is the quad core chips that Intel has announced for early 2007 (the G5 quad becomes an 8 CPU Macintel).

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Nik Manning]

I was mad at first cause I just bought a dual 2 from craiglist for $1300. but now I see that the Macbook is $2499($2299 edu) and not $1999($1799 edu) for that version. Great motion performance is what is really surprising. Do you think it will be possible to hook up AJA or Black Magic video card somehow thru the ExpressCard/34 slot in the future. Would be nice to just say forget a desktop system. They should have something similiar to the dell laptop docking stations. I think that would be cool.

Young, Dumb, and full of
Potential!

[Mitchji]

[Nik Manning] “Do you think it will be possible to hook up AJA or Black Magic video card somehow thru the ExpressCard/34 slot in the future.”

Hi,

That works with G4 PB so it should work with MBP in the future. The recommended solution is FW raid connected via the slot. SATA RAID via the slot would probably be better.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[George Loch]

With an AJA iO it works but that is it. There are certianly no HD Express card options – or SD for that matter. You would be relying completely on the one FW400 port for the video I/O and a SATA raid through the single Express 34 slot and I am not aware of such a card that offers mac support at this point.

-gl