Heeee haaa... render times: Mac VS PC

FuTz wrote on 3/28/2003, 3:41 PM
Reading all that publicity Mac does concerning their product constantly outperforming PCs, here's what I found on **ADOBE** (!!!) website:

http://www.adobe.com/motion/pcpreferred.html

Full article:
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2002/11_nov/reviews/cw_macvspciii.htm


mmm...

Comments

PhilStorm wrote on 3/28/2003, 6:53 PM
It's just sour grapes because they're losing out on the Mac market... Got news for them, they'll be losing out on the PC market soon as well...

Die Premiere die...

Phil C.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/28/2003, 11:28 PM
I was impressed at first that the PC out rendered the Mac, but then I took a second look. Duel p4 3.06g chips vs g4 1.25g chips. I know that mac's are risc, and everything BUT the pc is risk, and that risc can out perform a PC at a simular mhz level, but does anyone else think it's a little unfair in the speed difference here? I mean, would anyone be amazed my p3-667 could out render my C64? :) Also, does this mean that when Intel goes risc, they'll have as crappy render time? :)

Oh, die premiere die! :)
Brazilian wrote on 3/29/2003, 12:37 AM
First, re-read the article; It's a SINGLE processor 3ghz P4 vs. a DUAL processor 1.25Ghz (so 2.5Ghz).

Second, comparing equal clock speeds on two different architectures is pretty irrelevant anyway.

The more meaningful message to get from this story is the price difference between the compared PC and Mac, and the resulting 'bang-for-the-buck' conclusions between the two machines-- whatever their clock speed happen to be.

As Bill O'Reilly is fond of saying, "As always, we'll let the audience decide."
DataMeister wrote on 3/29/2003, 1:38 AM
Like Brazilian said and beat me to it. I was going to say, the main point is that it doesn't matter exactly what the MHz reading is, they are comparing the fastest available from both architectures. So to have the fastest for Photoshop or Premiere you have to go with Intel. Plus it is cheaper.

JBJones

P.S. and hey look at this. I'm seeing the last post down below what I'm currently typing. I just sent in a product suggestion earlier this week requesting that. Very cool!
riredale wrote on 3/29/2003, 7:14 PM
I think it was in this week's PCMag that Dvorak predicted that Jobs was going to give Motorola (the CPU chip maker) the old heave-ho in the next few months and go with the Intel Itanium (64 bit)chip. He says the announcement could come at the MacWorld Expo in NYC in July.

I worked for Apple back when the Mac first came out. Amazing to think that a full WYSIWYG interface worked beautifully on a machine with 128K (that's "K" not "M") of ram and, I think, a 10MHz processor. I think Apple blew it big-time by not licensing out the MAC OS to all takers before Gates was able to replicate the same functionality on an '-86 platform 10 years later.