You want to show me how fast the Core Duo iMac is? Do an MPEG-2 encode of a two hour.dv file to a disk image (eliminates DVD drive bottleneck). Do the same thing with the Quad G5. Compare.
Any test designed to evaluate the horsepower of the machine should involve at least 99% processor utilization. Any tester not willing to do that should not receive machines for evaluation. Grrr.
And please, stop using Quicktime encodes and iMovie effects in tests. Those only use a single processor. Only tells you how little the idle processor contributes to performance.
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You want to show me how fast the Core Duo iMac is? Do an MPEG-2 encode of a two hour .dv file to a disk image (eliminates DVD drive bottleneck). Do the same thing with the Quad G5. Compare.
Any test designed to evaluate the horsepower of the machine should involve at least 99% processor utilization. Any tester not willing to do that should not receive machines for evaluation. Grrr.
And please, stop using Quicktime encodes and iMovie effects in tests. Those only use a single processor. Only tells you how little the idle processor contributes to performance.