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10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:14 pm
by mnmlmike
I haven't done much testing yet but I was working on a session last night that took up about
70-80% of my CPU in Ableton. I upgraded to 10.6 and now that same session is about 30-35% and everything
is running fine.
Not too shabby if you ask me
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:56 pm
by cids
Sounds good!
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:36 am
by Inofaith
..wow that sounds good.
(Is snow leopard even out yet??)
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:50 am
by mnmlmike
In the past few hours that I've been rocking it, it's pretty great over here. Everything is just
quick and zippy. iTunes opens in the time of one dock bounce (if that makes sense)
and ummm.... err.... no..... it's not "technically" out.
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:58 am
by outershpongolia
[quote="mnmlmike"iTunes opens in the time of one dock bounce (if that makes sense) [/quote]
Don't even own a Mac and I understand that one.. Sounds pretty sweet.
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:01 pm
by KrisM
that sounds very sexy.
Come on, September...
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:32 am
by zalo
30 dollars?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
do they think i have a money tree or something?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:43 pm
by outershpongolia
They probably think you have a money bush, or maybe just money shrubs?
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:06 pm
by Veiss
30$ isn't much for what you get. The -8gb HD space is nice too. Really looking forward to the live performance though. My first gen macbook suuuuucks. I don't trust it one bit to play live anymore...
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:48 pm
by outershpongolia
Veiss wrote:The -8gb HD space is nice too.
How does that work it literally just deletes and replaces certain parts of the OS?
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:58 pm
by mnmlmike
I think the main thing is that it's trimming the fat by not having any PPC support in your computer.
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:09 am
by guille
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:14 am
by cids
Hi Mnmlmike, would be great if you could post some more Live benchmarks... are you using Live 8?
Thanks
Casper
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:23 am
by mnmlmike
Sadly I'm rocking 7 still unless anyone wants to hook up a copy of 8
I'll do Tarekiths test in the AM when I wake up.
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:11 pm
by Pasha
mnmlmike wrote:I haven't done much testing yet but I was working on a session last night that took up about
70-80% of my CPU in Ableton. I upgraded to 10.6 and now that same session is about 30-35% and everything
is running fine.
Not too shabby if you ask me
Can you detail the kind of machine you have?
From this (
http://www.osnews.com/story/22009/Snow_ ... by_Default) article
it seems that Snow Leopard doesn't boot in 64 bit mode by default so the performance boost should come from
grand central...
- Best
- Pasha