Apple vs. PC in Adobe After Effects 84
An anonymous user wrote, "Digital Video Editing ran some tests to compare the Dual G4 with the Athlon MP in After Effects. They didn't use the fastest Athlons, but the results are pretty clear anyway. This is especially interesting after Apple announced that they would be killing Shake for x86 platforms. If Apple really wants to position the Mac as an alternative to x86 on the film / video effects market, they are going to need to improve their hardware, especially with AMD's 64-bit CPU just around the corner. From the article: 'Not one of the objective tests we conducted using After Effects bore out Apple's claim of Mac superiority. In fact, in most of the tests, the Mac was left lagging far behind.'"
How is that exactly equal? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:How is that exactly equal? (Score:2, Interesting)
Not surprised (Score:5, Interesting)
Apple has tended to fulfill Moore's Law in fits and starts rather than the smooth curve you see with the x86. They pulled well ahead about 3 years ago and then hardly moved until just recently. We'll see how far the current surge takes us.
Speaking of 64-bit processors, I suspect that the more portable UNIX core of Mac OS X will allow Apple to support a 64-bit machine at the consumer level before Windows can.
Re:Unequivalent Compression Codec Comparision (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Everyone already knows this (Score:2, Interesting)
It is quite possible for a machine/OS/interface to be slow, but still remain responsive. Unfortunately OS X fits squarely into the "unresponsive" category, even on quite fast machines like my PB667 (and a G4/933 isn't much better). X and its associated window managers/GUIs/whatevers tend to suffer the same problem. NT based versions of Windows (particuarly later ones like 2k and XP) remain quite responsive even on slower hardware and the king of all in terms of responsive GUIs, I'm led to believe, was the Amiga.