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Is MAC the fastest.
I am a recent purchaser of a Mac g5 2.7. Recently I just read an article from Charlie White in which he did some benchmark tests on the Mac. He was Favourable about the Mac. Then just recently Dell sent him a new Dell Precision Workstation 360. I guess he says that that thing is much faster on his benchmark tests with after affects then the Mac.
It seems not that long ago that Mac was further then the competition on haveing the most powerful computer. Now it seems the Mac is Fast one day, and the PC is fast another. My question is being new to the Mac world, What is Mac doing to try and get ahead of the PC. The PC does dominate 97% of the Market. -
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Just don’t put it on the Internet.
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LOL. sober.q! it’s coming for you!
Well, I believe the Macs are slower, processor wise. The shear amount of MIPS per second or is it BIPS now? If you want just a render farm for AE or some 3D apps, PCs mite be the economic answer. But there are other factors that I find make it more useable than PCs. Familiarity, Interface and reliability are my main reasons. But I’m not sure why your asking this question now. You said you already bought a Mac. Is this buyers remorse? Just remember the day you buy a computer is the day it is out of date!
Oh yea! Enjoy that hackers ignore Macs, for now.
Hope this helps-
Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.5
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Oh, BTW that 97% is wrong. Apple is # 5 in computer sales desktops and notebooks, and has a global install base of 53 million computers (and 6 million ipods). We don’t hear people saying gateway is doing poorly at there #5 position. Also, when i had a PC, I bought a new one every 4-6 months. I am now running apple’s from the late 90’s as DV editors. I can’t say that about my pcs. This is a tool that we are talking about. This is not an extension of the male anatomy. It’s like comparing a Yugo with a jet engin, to a McLaren F1. Both cost a million and go damn fast, but I will not be caught dead in a Yugo (sorry Yugo lovers). The mac is just one of the best solutions for digital print and video EVER! I have a dual 2.7 and trust me, running two/three streams of DVCPROHD with color correction, lower thirds, and motion in the frame, all at 1080i at full quality is damn fast enough for me. Drop the mac vs pc thing, and stop coveting Yugos.
VM
Not so great version of the story, but I can’t find the original right now.
https://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/04/15.14.shtml -
There is NO doubt… NONE at all… that a Mac is DEFINITELY the fastest platform to run FCP.
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Having a faster computer isn’t all to the experience, nor to the total workflow. Macs cost more upfront, but cost less to own (Case in point: My 4.5 year old Mac is still worth about 5-600 bucks. show me ONE PC that cost less than 2k that you can say that about?
Well over 50% of the editors out there prefer Macs. It’s not about speed, it’s about the ease of use and reliability. So I guess I’m saying that having faster is necessarily better, I’m sure over time Mac’s will be faster then PC’s then back to Macs… What difference does it really make?
The real question you should be asking is what do YOU want to run? FCP? then Mac’s the choice, Premiere, Vegas or Avid? Then you have another option, but I’d not want to run a PC for reasons far beyond speed. When a PC breaks down for a day a years worth of speed advantage goes right out the window… right? The sheer elegance of the Mac OS is far more important… FCP is a bargain for what it can do, so the speed thing isn’t important to the experience thing…
That said, there’s no doubt Macs of the future will be faster than Macs of today… and those that know what Apple is up to can’t talk, those that talk don’t know.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Hi,
His tests are with After Affects. A few years ago G4 Dual 800 or 1k (I forget which) DV magazine compared a PC and a Mac with AE and Premiere. The PC was about twice as fast. Several readers responded that with FCP their Mac systems were about twice as fast as the PC running the same tests the magazine did with Premiere.
Why? Did Adobe spend more time optimizing their applications for the PC? Were the PC’s inherently much faster but by optimizing their code Apple was able to provide better performance?
The bottom line is that these tests don’t show which computer is faster. They ONLY show which computer is faster running AE. If most of your work is AE then this is very important information. If most of your work is in FCP, Motion, Compressor etc. then these tests don’t mean anything.
Best Wishes,
Mitch
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