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Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison Redux

Posted by pudge on from the benchmarks-would-not-lie-to-me dept.

Macmurph writes "Bibble Labs has released a lightning fast version of the RAW image convertor, MacBibble. According to MacBibble creator, Eric Hyman, "MacBibble 3.x is almost 10 times faster than the manufacturers software when converting RAW files under OSX.". Prelimenary tests indicate the Mac may be faster than PCs in RAW image conversion afterall. This calls into question the relevance of the the hotly debated article Rob Galbraith posted just 3 weeks ago and discussed here on Slashdot. Two thumbs up for the PowerPC G4's AltiVec vector processing engine, now being put to work in MacBibble."

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  1. Re:There's that matter of cost.... by AssFace · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's how I see it as well.

    For the things that I do, I can't justify anything beyond AMD and linux (or freebsd).

    but I do like the shiny laptops - at least the way they look :)

    --

    There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
  2. Re:ColorSync = BS by mattsmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wrong - ICM in Windows makes it just as easy. I think that you accidentally pulled out a standard Mac argument from 1999(when ColorSync actually was better than ICM) In fact, color managment in WinXP is beter than in OSX - OSX has so many Color Management bugs that most Mac people who actually know anything about digital color matching are sticking with OS 9 or switching to Windows. Apple may have helped invent color management as we know it, but they dropped the ball over the past 2 years.