Re: OsX compared to Linux and BeOS

From: LawsonE (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:56:12 -0700

"Randy Howard" <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1cd9c21b28e74c0698a4e6@news.verizon.net...
> In article <znu-52A4FE.17275627042005@individual.net>,
> znu@fake.invalid says...
>> In article <MPG.1cd9ae329e80738d98a4d6@news.verizon.net>,
>> Randy Howard <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote:
>>
>> > In article <znu-52F06C.15582727042005@individual.net>,
>> > znu@fake.invalid says...
>> > > Dual core will matter to the markets targeted by Xserves and G5
>> > > towers.
>> >
>> > People with a dual-processor box like a G5 tower don't need dual core
>> > at all, unless you think that multithreaded apps on the G5 are so
>> > slow they need 4 CPUs to get there.
>>
>> A lot of the tasks for which people buy G5 towers still push the
>> capabilities of today's hardware quite a bit. HD video editing, for
>> instance. Of course, Apple is trying to unload some of this sort of
>> thing on the GPU, but fast processors are still a must. And four fast
>> processors (effectively) are better than two.
>
> True, but I doubt that the majority of people with G5 dual towers are
> running high load averages currently.
>

If you're using a G5 dual for what its intended for, you're pushing it at
some point.

Rendering special FX can stress any processor. There's a reason why 1K+ unit
renderfarms are used by the big animation houses.