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Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison

Posted by michael on from the cut-and-splice dept.

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."

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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

    thanks

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp. cisco!

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, Macs and PCs compare you!

  4. Organic Meese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, There's more lead paint than a cat smashing a lamp on rake. I'd buy a topographical map, if only my soup had enough marbles in it!

  5. summary of the report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Macs are for fags. So those of you like Timmah and Homos making home bukkake and taco snot films, the Mac is the platform for you.

  6. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Digital video editing compares YOU!

  7. PC vs Mac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Macs are for girls and old people. In Soviet Russia, computers edit YOU! No really...they do.

  8. Bad Software Engineering? by TheOldFart · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  9. Hey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who keeps wiggling the network cable on Slashdot? Slashdot keeps going up and down.

    Wait a minute, MySQL isn't about to crash, again? Is it?

  10. This quote is great... by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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).

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    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  11. Well lets have bias'ed reviews of everything! by bastardman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One time at band camp I had sex with a flute. I like flutes. This other time I had sex with a drum... it asn't as fun. I guess that means flutes are better! Case in Point! I wIn! HAHA!

  12. Reality: by ainsoph · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  13. Re:Mac is still much much better by Minn_Kota_Marine · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hahaha, that's pretty funny.

    maybe next time you should just kill yourself. ...or get a fisher price computer.

    (you are joking, right?)

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    foe me, freak me.
  14. Windows by pseudochaotic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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