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the 26 percent difference between the identical ibook and powerbook up there is pretty interesting.

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dirtystudios wrote:the 26 percent difference between the identical ibook and powerbook up there is pretty interesting.

k

i think the problem has been resolved...
presets weren't loading correctly, my mistake - i should have tested it on my girlfriend's ibook

1) 80%
2) Apple G4 powerbook 15
3) OS 10.3.5
4) G4 1.25
5) 31 gig
6) Stock
7) 5600 rpm

i couldn't play at 512 i needed 2024 (ish)
to play without distortion or interuptions.


LAME! although i don't use this laptop for Live.
will try on the desktop PC.

just tested my old Desktop PC, a 3.5 year old Compaq.


1) 52%
2) Compaq Presario Desktop 5004US
3) Windows XP Home (SP1)
4) AMD Athlon 1.1ghz
5) 320MB Ram, PC100
6) Stock SoundMAX soundcard
7) 5400rpm Internal IDE HD (ATA-66)

1) 43%
2) Apple Aluminum Powerbook 1.5
3) OSX.3.5
4) G4 1.5Ghz
5) 1.5GB
6) Stock
7) Hitachi Travelstar 7200 RPM

thanks adamjay for the zip. everythings's loaded and the official range on the live meter is: 68-78 with a sharp spike to 84 after the first bar is played. on par with the other books.

tested my girlfriend's iBook G4 with the Live 4 demo.

1) 89%
2) Apple iBook G4
3) OSX 10.3.5
4) G4 800mhz (256k L2)
5) 640MB DDR PC2100 Ram
6) Stock Core Audio*
7) 4200rpm

* - glitches @ 512 samples, none at 1024 samples.

1) 21%
2) Dell Precision M60
3) XP Pro
4) Pentium M 755 (2.00 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache)
5) 1gb Ram 333MHz
6) same CPU perfrmance whether using Indigo IO or internal Sigmatel soundcard
7) 7200

(1920 x 1200 screen on Nvidia Quadro FX GO1000)

I've disabled ACPI, so am set as a Standard PC. Also set the Virtual memory to zero.

1) 28%
2) Desktop. PC.
3) WinXP Professional with SP2 - I reformated 2 days ago, so its pretty fresh.
4) AMD Athlon 2600+ XP - 2.09GHZ
5) 1GB DDR 333mhz
6) Audiophile 24/96 PCI
7) Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM

I really am not intended to start a Mac/PC war, but its interesting to me how most of the Apple systems listed are above 50%. Is there any explaination or is it just "one of them" ???

I am supremely pleased with my desktop's performance, but I might be trading it in for a AMD Athlon 2500+ laptop. A little slower, but should still be worth it.

Not sure yet if I'm going to go through with it.

i just asked a friend to test his Dual 1.8ghz G5... which should give us all a better gauge on Apple performance.

but i'm not really trying to start a war here either... but rather set a defined benchmark for people to use when comparing systems. Its good when you need to gauge / troubleshoot problems with your own performance. If someone with nearly the same machine as you is getting 20% better performance, that tells you you arent getting the most of your machine. And if you were about to drop a grand on a new machine because of weak performance... then this becomes a good resource for making better decisions.

and in your case, you are thinking of going down to an Athlon XP 2500, and you should still get a very healthy amount of performance with it based on some of these results.

another friend on AIM, mike kuszynski gave me his results...
thank you mike.

1) 23% peak
2) Custom Built, with K8V Mobo
3) Windows XP Professional SP1
4) AMD Athlon 64 3200
5) 1 GB Ram, DDR PC3200
6) Hammerfall Multiface
7) 10,000 RPM Serial ATA HD

AdamJay wrote:i just asked a friend to test his Dual 1.8ghz G5... which should give us all a better gauge on Apple performance.

It's too bad Live isn't more efficient with its dual CPU support. Dedicating one CPU to graphics is ok, but such a waste of a G5 processor (or AMD, Intel, for that matter). I'm not expecting 1.8Ghz performance to show anything stellar. If we were gauging Logic on single and dual CPU machines, that would be a whole different story.

AdamJay wrote: and in your case, you are thinking of going down to an Athlon XP 2500, and you should still get a very healthy amount of performance with it based on some of these results.

Should do yes, but its not the usual done thing to downgrade!

the laptop is £600 from Comet (UK electronics and household retailer) and I saw it in an advert in a magazine. still toying with the idea of selling my PC setup and buying the laptop.

Usually over here laptops this cheap are shitty celeron's, but I'm thinking that I might just wait until I get to university.

OK here we go -

1 - Min Peak 15% - Max Peak 22%
2 - Toshiba Satellite P20 H/T (not disabled) (see specs in sig)
3- Windows XP Pro SP1 (custom DAW tweak)
4- 3.2ghz H/T P4 i865 800mhz FSB (CPU clocked at 3.19ghz exactly)
5- 1gig DDR RAM (not sure on factory ram spec here)
6- Echo Indigo DJ
7- 7200 RPM Lacie D2 FW drive



Quite happy with that I must say

1) 60%
2) Custom Desktop
3) Win XP Pro SP1
4) P3 1ghz
5) 512mb PC133
6) Echo MIA MIDI
7) 7200