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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."
The Mac lunies will somehow twist the facts around to once again convince themselves that somehow they are superior.
Sakusha has a point. We ran some benchmarks with Cleaner on dual G4 1.25Gh machine with OS X and a dual Xeon 1.8 Gh dell and for the same clip with the same settings(codecs, etc.) we got that the Mac was 50% faster. The use of the dual processors and the Altivec optimizations is very important. I am constantly amazed at the ingenious ways Clone users come up with to try and show a clone superiority.
First the argument of Mac Vs. PC seems to base itself around Windows Vs. Mac OS-9/X and not really PC vs. Mac. but rather than choose sides (since I use both all day long) I'll leave everyone with a quote by a good friend of mine:
"Arguing about whether windows is better than OS-X is like running in the Special Olympics - Whether you win or lose YOUR STILL RETARDED!"
Ave Molech Setting
We arn't talking about 1/3rd of a second compared to a half a second between when you click and when a menu pops up, we're talking about 2 hours compared to 1 hour and 10 minutes for rendering a video. When the vast majority of your time is sitting around waiting for a render, it really does matter what system your using.
Even for doing low quality previews its important.
Also, windows does have color managers (not that you need it for video really) and basic utilities.
And we arn't talking about being six months behind, its more like 18-24 months.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
This is the most pointless argument ever. How can you honestly say that MAC's are better then PC's?
XP vs OS X. Windows Xp can run anything and everything for everyone. It's trully plug and play, even more so than OSX, cause OSX has only handfull of stuff that you can connect to it, wich obviusly work fine for it, but Windows support 10x the amount stuff and proportionaly does a better job. People love not to work for things, and in this respect both OSX and XP do equal jobs. XP is speedier due to better hardware (DDR RAM, faster bus, etc) and is designed to run everything. As for running apps, MAC users have the age old cheap line that PC's crash. Well, my friend, MAC's crash too, they have been and will continue to crash as long as their archaic hardware remains as their base. At least with PC's things have changed now, as XP is STABLE, running on way better HW.
I mean, cmon, the G4 is like a ferrari engine in a Volvo shell. It was great once, but can't keep up with Intel and AMD anymore, and MAC fanatics will never admit that, no matter how many benchmarks and real world test they see.
POWER is completely relative to PRICE. You take equally priced PC's and MAC's, running their latest OS and have the same or similar tasks take place and then you have a realistic comparison as to who is better. 9 out of 10 the pc will kill the mac.
This whole crusade agaist the ruling order is the most cliche and overdone thing in existance. The whole world runs Windows, and those who dont, feel like their rebeling against something honorable and worthy, calling MS of all things, EVIL. Sorry but, you people really need to think about where you stand in this world.
Oh, i almost forgot. I definetly know that this happens several times a day, all around the world. Some poor guy somewhere is half way through editing some crap on Final Cut Pro 3, waiting for the 11 filters he used to render on his $3000 MAC, while somewhere else, another guy finshed two hours ago his similar crappy project(with 12 filters) on Avid Xpress 3.5 running on a $1500 PC, then played some everquest or Unreal 2k3, then went on Internet Explorer and checked out some naked pics of the first guys sister.