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Apple vs. PC in Adobe After Effects

Posted by pudge on from the ouch dept.

An anonymous user wrote, "Digital Video Editing ran some tests to compare the Dual G4 with the Athlon MP in After Effects. They didn't use the fastest Athlons, but the results are pretty clear anyway. This is especially interesting after Apple announced that they would be killing Shake for x86 platforms. If Apple really wants to position the Mac as an alternative to x86 on the film / video effects market, they are going to need to improve their hardware, especially with AMD's 64-bit CPU just around the corner. From the article: 'Not one of the objective tests we conducted using After Effects bore out Apple's claim of Mac superiority. In fact, in most of the tests, the Mac was left lagging far behind.'"

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  1. Everyone already knows this by jchristopher · · Score: 0, Troll
    This is not news... it is obvious to anyone that has used both Macs and PCs that a $1500 PC destroys a $1500 Mac with regards to speed.

    I suspect that those people who are still using Macs either:

    1. Don't have speed as their first priority, (maybe they are more interested in tightly integrated hardware/software, for example)

    2. Simply don't realize how much faster Wintel has gotten because they haven't used one lately, due to bias and/or choice.