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<div><span class="gmail_quote"><font face="verdana">On 1/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Olson</b> <<a href="mailto:chris.olson@astcomm.net">chris.olson@astcomm.net</a>> wrote:</font></span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><font face="verdana">On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Loren wrote:<br><br>> Things that it won't run: Final Cut Studio
1.0, Final Cut Pro<br>> 1-2-3-4-5, Aperture, or Logic Pro 7.1 DVD, Studio Pro 4, Motion 2,<br>> or Soundtrack Pro, not even with the intel emulator (rosetta)<br><br>Guess the DV pro will still be buying the PowerBook G4 for some time
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<div><font face="verdana">"...And, it bears repeating, if your Mac is powered by the Intel Core Duo, that performance will be nothing less than astounding — up to 4X what is possible on PowerPC-based machines."
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<div><font face="verdana">Let's examine this claim. The legal department claims 4X faster, and when you zero into the benchmarks, clearly there is ONE(1) application (Modo beta) that renders 4X faster. Doom 3 came in a distant 2nd at
2.2x faster. A practical application like Safari (1.9x faster). <br></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana">The fumes don't get any fainter when we also uncover that Modo (beta) is engineered with clean code, unique and designed specific for the intel architecture. i.e.. the one application that doesn't need an emulator. Which is all good, but the fact they are milking the 4X faster flag based on this one single app is kinda tacky, IMO.
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