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1) 72% peak
2) Apple 17" Powerbook
3) Mac OS 10.3.6
4) 1GHz G4
5) 1GB RAM (DDR SDRAM PC2700)
6) Novation X-Station USB

Help!

Fingers wrote:How is the iMac going? I'm sorely tempted by one but I had my doubts about heat and noise. So is it cool and quiet?

It's not as quiet as an iBook or powerbook, but not as loud as a powermac. The noise doesn't bother me much, because I have fairy dirty production tastes.

It runs pretty warm as well.

I love it though!

-Kevin

1) 26% (peak value, average 24%)
2) Desktop, HP Compaq dc7100 CMT
3) Windows XP Professional SP2
4) Pentium 4, 3.4 GHz (1MB L2 cache, 800Mhz FSB)
5) 1024 MB RAM (400 MHz DDR SDRAM [PC3200])
6) On-board SoundMAX Audio (AC97, using DX driver)
7) 7200 rpm (80 GB S-ATA)

/sp0

1) 54% steady
2) Fujitsu Siemens A7640 notebook
3) Windows XP pro with SP1
4) Sempron 3000+ 1,8ghz
5) 512mb ram 333mhz
6) Stock soundcard (vinyl ac97)
7) 4200rpm

Now .. this all runs very well .. except I do have a slight issue with the rather high CPU percentage. I have optimized my laptop to the best of my knowledge and I havent got a problem how live 4 runs on this usually ..
but I have to compare here..

this test song has:
2 synths.
13 effects.

now ... I use sonar 4 as my main sequencer on my laptop and one of my songs has the following setup.

2 synths (dr 008 with 4 outputs, synth 1)
13 wave tracks
30 vst effects

and this takes 79% of my CPU.

now I know that you cant compare 2 separate software with simple things like this .. and it really makes no difference to me at all ... I just think that the test song is rather heavy for what it actually does.

1) 18-19%
2) HP zv5000z notebook
3) XP home SP2
4) AMD Athlon 64 3700 (2.4ghz)
5) 768mb
6) Echo Indigo DJ (which will go down to 64 samples no problem, btw)
7) 5400rpm

1) 76% peak
2) Apple 15" Titanium Powerbook
3) Mac OS 10.3.6
4) G4 1GHz
5) 1GB SDRAM (Crucial PC133U-333)
6) M-Audio Firewire 410
7) 4200rpm

[quote="sp0bjogu"]1) 49% (peak value, average 45%)

Make sure your Power Options are using the maximum settings. Somelike 'Always on' Never use power consuming options, only use full power.

I am sure you will get better performace because of this. This is PC man

i a friend of mine tried the test on a new ibook g4. he reports the following:

1) 60%
2) IBook
3) Mac OS 10.3
4) G4 1,2 ghz
5) 256mb
6) Internal
7) ???

Here are 2 laptops I tested:

1) 23-26%
2) Sony Vaio S260 laptop
3) Win XP Home
4) Pentium M 1.7gHz
5) 512MB Ram
6) Stock
7) 4200 RPM

and

1) 24-28%
2) HP Pavilion ZD7000 laptop
3) WinXP Pro SP2
4) Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
5) 512MB Ram
6) Stock
7) 5400 RPM

...............................................

I just did another test for the hard drives of these 2 laptops by loading up as many audio tracks as each one could hold in Ableton Live. Here is what I found....

1) Sony
-can play about 22 audio tracks before hd drop outs occur (cpu reads 6% at this point)
-has a 4200rpm, 8mb buffer hard drive
-can view 8 full size audio tracks without scrolling

2) HP
-can play about 39 audio tracks before the hd drop outs occur (cpu reads 13% at this point)
-has a 5400rpm, 16mb buffer hard drive
-can view 11 full size audio tracks at a time without scrolling

1) 17%-20%
2) Desktop
3) Win XP SP2
4) AMD Athlon 64 3400+
5) 1GB DDR400
6) Maudio Audiophile 2496
7) 120GB Seagate Barracuda (8 Mb Cache, 7200 RPM)

1) 77% (
2) Powerbook Titanium
3) OSX 10.36
4) 1GHZ G4
5) 1GB
6) Firewire 410
7) internal

1) 65%
2) iBook G4
3) OS 10.3.6
4) 1 ghz G4
5) 256 mb
6) Built-In
7) 30 gig stock drive

the 12% diff between those last 2 is curious

1) 61%
2) iBook G4
3) OS 10.3.6
4) 1 ghz G4
5) 256 mb
6) Built-In
7) 30 gig stock drive

Shit, I had Firefox open to this thread while I was running the test! These are the new results WITHOUT Firefox.

drush wrote:1) 18-19%
2) HP zv5000z notebook
3) XP home SP2
4) AMD Athlon 64 3700 (2.4ghz)
5) 768mb
6) Echo Indigo DJ (which will go down to 64 samples no problem, btw)
7) 5400rpm

some help here:

can i assume this laptop can handle (if not better) the large seesions
i creat on my amd 3000+ asus desktop that gets 23-27%?????????
if so, i'm selling the farm and getting a pc laptop so i can work at starbucks! hahahahahahahahahahahah