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Jsnkc wrote on 12/13/2004, 1:04 PM
I just got a new Dell laptop (Inspiron 5150) a few months ago with the M processor and it works fine with vegas.
Laurence wrote on 12/13/2004, 1:21 PM
Pentium Ms are great. They don't have hyperthreading but they do more calculations on each CPU cycle. Multiply the processor speed by two to find the approximate P4 speed processing speed. Yes they are that much more efficient!
FuTz wrote on 12/14/2004, 3:05 AM

M seems to be working good for most people but when I bought a laptop a year ago, I was told to stay *away* from Centrino. Just so everybody knows. But I don't know if it's still relevant as of right now...
farss wrote on 12/14/2004, 4:46 AM
Well,
I'm going the opposite way, my next machine will be dual Xeons on a SuperMicro mobo, I'm leaving global warming for my kids to worry about.
FuTz wrote on 12/14/2004, 3:30 PM
? Dual Xeons in a laptop? woah... carry some ice packs to sit it on !
farss wrote on 12/14/2004, 4:24 PM
Nah,
NOT in a laptop, although I COULD make it portable, I'm getting into inverters for running things on site. If I bunged a Bluefish card in it I could capture HD out of a Z1 at 10 bit res, that should look very smooth.

I saw someone's doing a quad Xeon Mobo, that should make Vegas really scream along.

Interesting bit of news from the local SuperMicro integrators, their NAS box with the right 1GB network switch can serve 4 streams of uncompressed SD, not THAT expensive for 2TB, well OK, it's a LOT cheaper than SAN systems.
Bob.
musman wrote on 12/14/2004, 5:28 PM
Wow, you're throwing a lot of interesting stuff around there. I'd love to know how you'd capture the Z1 at 10 bit, thought it was an 8 bit camera.
Also, would a quad xeon setup help Vegas right now? Thought it only used 1 processor for video and the other (if you have one) for audio.
Hulk wrote on 12/14/2004, 6:23 PM
Can anyone point to some dual cpu Vegas benchmarks to be sure that dual cpus really are effective with Vegas?

It seems to me that Vegas will only create one thread for audio operations and one for video.
musman wrote on 12/14/2004, 9:29 PM
Right, that's what I heard as well. But, if you do extensive audio work it would come in handy I'm sure (never used a dualie).
My last project had on one veg file all my visual effects, color correction, etc as well as my raw audio with all its processing, compression etc there as well. So little or none of the stuff was processed on other veg files so I had it all in one place.
That was convenient for organization, but my p4 2.4 couldn't keep up. Spot mentioned to me that this is one of the best reasons to have a dualie.