[Ti] Ti Overclocking and Re: Ti Power adapters

[Chris Olson]

On Nov 28, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:

> What kind of heavy video work? After Effects? Other applications?   
> Usually, pure video editing does make its toll on the IO-processes,  
> like disk access, rather than the CPU.

Pure video editing, yes.  Rendering takes cpu.  You can pick up a DP  
PowerMac G4/1.42 off eBay for a fraction of the price of a PowerBook  
and have 3x more rendering power.  Do the editing on the PB if you  
need the portability to do your editing, and do the rendering on the PM.

Interesting thing about the PM dual 1.42 with Firewire 800 - Apple  
only sold it for four months before pulling it from the lineup.  When  
the G5 came out it became clear why they pulled the DP 1.42 - it  
soundly trounced the new G5 in video rendering performance and was  
cheaper than a G5.

Yep, Apple plays marketing games too.

Here's a plan:
You can get G4 processors running at 2+ Ghz for some time now -  
Gigadesigns has them for the Quicksilver et al.  I saw on barefeats  
where they tested an old iMac G4 flatpanel upgraded with a Daystar G4  
processor.  It smoked the iMac G5 in iMovie HD video rendering.

I'll bet Apple, just like they did with the DP 1.42, will hesitate to  
put these things in PowerBooks because they outbench the Pentium M/ 
Centrino big time.  So wait until Apple drops the Intel Bomb and  
you'll be able to pick up a first generation Aluminum PowerBook off  
eBay for cheap because nobody will want them anymore.  Buy it, send  
that sucker in to Daystar where for a few hundred bucks you get a  
powerful new G4 in it, and enjoy.

Let the Intel Weenies run their PC's.  You can still run a *real*  
RISC Unix machine  :-)
-- 
Chris

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