Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison

mnemonic writes "DigitalVideoEditing.com has posted its third Mac vs. PC comparison, dealing with performance in After Effects and Photoshop, graphics applications one might expect the Mac to be significantly faster in. It should be noted that the author, Charlie White, is a long-time PC supporter and disliker of Macs, though, as he shows, this preference is for as legitimate reasons as the ones devoted Mac users cite to disparage PC's. Ace's Hardware has another comparison that goes further in depth into the specifics of the G4, P4 and Athlon processors. As when comparing any two pieces of hardware, it's important to think not only of the relationship between performance and specification, but performance and price."

Comments

Bad Software Engineering?

[TheOldFart]

Is this an architectural problem or is it the level of software engineering? When I first saw a Mac (the very first one, mind you), I got put off by its "programmer unfriendly environment". Given that, my resources got diverted to more interesting platforms. I wonder how common is that and what it means to the level of software engineering today.

This quote is great...

[Reality Master 101]

Just reading a few technical spec pages at Apple's PowerMac site will set you off in a fit of laughter.

"The fewer the steps, the shorter -- and more efficient -- the pipeline. Thanks to its efficient 7-stage design (versus 20 stages for the Pentium 4 processor) the G4 processor can accomplish a task with 13 fewer steps than the PC. You do the math."

When I read "you do the math", I completely cracked. Apple marketing doesn't seem to know that pipelining makes sure that each stage of the pipeline is busy. They pretend that each instruction has to wait until the previous one has "left the processor" (has been retired).

Wait a minute -- Apple advertising LIE??

NO WAY

But Steve told me that Macs are TWICE AS FAST!

Hopefully, we'll finally see some sanity come to the Mac fans who still think G4s are so much faster than P4 at the same clock rate. Yes, they are faster, but only by about 20% on the average when you look at a large cross-section of benchmarks.

Maybe even that Slashdot guy who used to have in his sig that Macs are 4 times faster than PCs at the same clock rate will get a clue (but I doubt it).

Reality:

[ainsoph]

Warning to the Zealots manipulated by Steve and Marketing department lie factory. Morpheus is now asking you to make a choice, the red pill or the blue pill.

Please decide which one this is.

Windows

[pseudochaotic]

I guess you can chalk it up to the general anti-windows bias. Call Windows tools crap, and you can almost guarantee getting modded up.