[X4U] PowerMac recommendations

[N]

or minis to powerbooks... but that's the comparison the original poster 
began with anyway: this mac versus that mac.

you strike a good point, Stroller: I don't mention Aperture 
performance. I don't have Aperture.

But I DO have LIghtwave and Final Cut Studio, and I can assure you that 
they are both heavy hitters in the realm of CPU-intensive computing.

I can tell you that I often have iTunes playing while doing 3D 
rendering, and even though Lightwave tends to slurp down upwards of 90% 
CPU power, iTunes rarely even burps while rendering is going on.

I can tell you that my G4 mini X-benched at a little over half the 
figure for a Dual-processor, 2Ghz G5. That's correct, a 
single-processor 1.42 Ghz G4 clocked in at 1/2 the X Bench performance 
of a dual-processor 2-Ghz G5.

I can tell you after having done all of this work, plus had multiple 
intensive tasks going on at once (such as photoshop batch processing a 
few hundred images while 3D rendering going on) that even a G4 mini 
with Tiger as the OS is a serious machine.

So, just think what the intel-based Mini could do with the tasks listed 
by the original poster.

Now, when you look at specs on a web page, you might think "oh, well, 
this mac will get spanked silly by the one with the better "tech 
specs."

And, maybe it will. You'll only know when you sit down and do the work 
YOU do, but it helps the decision-making process to hear from others 
with comparable experiences.



On Feb 20, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Stroller wrote:

> Apples to oranges comparison - N doesn't mention Aperture performance.
>
> What graphics card do the G4 minis have, what grahocs card does your 
> Powerbook have, what graphics card do the current minis have?
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