[OFF] Bad news for MAC ?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 3/31/03 12:04 PM, Marcus Bointon at marcus at synchromedia.co.uk wrote:

>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> One PC lover today have point me this new article on Adobe (!!!) site
>> 
>>   http://www.adobe.com/motion/pcpreferred.html
>> 
>> It show that new DELL P4/3Mhz is up to 2 times faster of DUAL 1.42.
>> Any comments and rumors?
>> 
>> As for me I think this is not problem at all, because in near months
>> expected Apple's upgrade. But ....

Hi Marcus,

> There's been much discussion of this article on Slashdot. It's written by a
> well known PC apologist, and was probably posted by Adobe to annoy Apple
> more than anything else. They're pretty pissed off that Apple brought out
> FCP, and FCP express in particular as it hits at the core of their Premiere
> sales (an app that gets updated about once every 3 years, and deserves some
> competition to stop them being so smug). The benchmarks also fail to take
> account of the 3 days of tech support required to get the PC working
> properly... If you're working in After Effects, render time accounts for so
> little of the overall time spent that it really doesn't matter - if I spend
> 2 days working in a sequence, that it takes 2 or 3 minutes to render really
> makes little impact. After effects was quite usable on my old 840AV...
> Perhaps they should have benchmarked MPEG2 encoding, which a dual G4 will do
> several times faster than a 3G P4 courtesy of Apple's nice AltiVec
> implementation.

> Since there are some very juicy rumours about PPC970s for later this year, I
> wouldn't really worry about the speed differences. I mean what use is a 3GHz
> P4 if you can't run OS X on it? ;^) I don't see CPU speed improving the
> Windows user experience at all, and for 99% of the time, your processor is
> idle anyway (how many cycles does it need to flash a text cursor!), so the
> faster it is, the more time it's wasting!

:-) interesting logic

So may be back to 68K!  :-))


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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