On May 24, 2010, at 10:40 PM, David Gardner wrote:
Sure, go to Otherworld Computing and select your version of Quicksilver to upgrade.
A dual 1.0 GHz QS 2002 (or the processor from one in a DA) takes about 1 hour to encode a DVD5.
A relatively fast Intel can do the same job in less than 12 minutes ... an 8-to-1 advantage to Intel.
The bottlenecks on the old G4s are hard to overcome: slow 133 MHz bus v. 800 or even 1066 MHz on an Intel; huge caches on many C2D or C2Q Intels; slow ATA/66 channels on a G4 v. 3.0 Gbps SATA on an Intel.
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