Mac versus PC (or Mac AND PC in harmony?)
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:17 am
How does a 3GHz Pentium 4 compare with a high end Powerbook for real world audio work? I believe 1.67Ghz is the top of the range in a Powerbook.
According to http://www.systemshootouts.org/processors.html
1.67 GHz PowerPC G4 = 2.2 GHz Pentium 4
and I will need a 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 to beat my 3GHz Dell.
I am shopping for a new laptop. My current one a Dell 3GHz Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and 1GB of RAM which weighs a ton and has less than 1 hour battery life, but it is fast, and infinitely more portable than a desktop. Audio can be glitchy sometimes. I hang an external firewire hard drive and an M-Audio Firewire 1814 from it. Considering an RME Fireface 800 also (and mac supports firewire 800 if I go up to a 15 inch powerbook..)
Initially I was just looking at removing all the extra softwre and background processes from the DELL, and having it as an Audio-only Machine., and getting another smaller more portable laptop for everything else non-audio.. But when shopping around the only machine that met (almost) ALL my hardware requirements was a Mac. (Lightweight, bus powered firewire, 5 hr battery life, bluetooth, wireless LAN, TV and 2nd monitor out, and still have half decent 3D graphics accelerator in a lightweight machine for the one old game I play sometimes) I started to see great potential as the main audio machine instead...
Replies from PC bashing Mac owners will have no credibility, so please don't. I never ask my elitist mac-owning friends for their opinion on this, because I already know their answer - 'The one true name of God is "Mac" '. (But wasn't it the Devil that tempted mankind to first partake of the Apple, leading to banishment from paradise?) I am after real unbiased comparisons and information about raw processing power in real-world Audio applications such as Live.
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According to http://www.systemshootouts.org/processors.html
1.67 GHz PowerPC G4 = 2.2 GHz Pentium 4
and I will need a 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 to beat my 3GHz Dell.
I am shopping for a new laptop. My current one a Dell 3GHz Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and 1GB of RAM which weighs a ton and has less than 1 hour battery life, but it is fast, and infinitely more portable than a desktop. Audio can be glitchy sometimes. I hang an external firewire hard drive and an M-Audio Firewire 1814 from it. Considering an RME Fireface 800 also (and mac supports firewire 800 if I go up to a 15 inch powerbook..)
Initially I was just looking at removing all the extra softwre and background processes from the DELL, and having it as an Audio-only Machine., and getting another smaller more portable laptop for everything else non-audio.. But when shopping around the only machine that met (almost) ALL my hardware requirements was a Mac. (Lightweight, bus powered firewire, 5 hr battery life, bluetooth, wireless LAN, TV and 2nd monitor out, and still have half decent 3D graphics accelerator in a lightweight machine for the one old game I play sometimes) I started to see great potential as the main audio machine instead...
Replies from PC bashing Mac owners will have no credibility, so please don't. I never ask my elitist mac-owning friends for their opinion on this, because I already know their answer - 'The one true name of God is "Mac" '. (But wasn't it the Devil that tempted mankind to first partake of the Apple, leading to banishment from paradise?) I am after real unbiased comparisons and information about raw processing power in real-world Audio applications such as Live.
sorry if this has been discussed already... This forum's search function returns :
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