On Jul 25, 8:00 pm, Eric Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hopefully that helps!
It sure does. Much appreciated. I have a wife who actually tells me that we spend on her and our daughter, but I don't buy much for myself. I am green-lighted to go full Mac Pro $3K machine, but really wonder what I'll see. I suppose I should track down an owner who is encoding a DVD to TiVo, and discuss with him. If the software to do this particular task is not written to fully use multicore, it seems that I'd see little improvement over what you suggested the G5 would give me. Not an Intel discussion/ issue, but one of the application itself properly using all cores. I have 4 of these puppies (the G4 MDD) and offload the encoding to one with no monitor remotely. If the G5 at 2.5GHz /64 bit gives me the improvement, I'm not sure how much more a 3GHz machine would, depending how the SW runs. BTW - that link? Beautiful - it really gave me the comparison I was looking for. Again, thanks. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
