Thanks for all the suggestions. It sounds like Linux might be the best. I have thought about getting an Intel Mac, but with the pricing compared to other Intel hardware, the bang for the buck may not really be worth Apple's prices. I still have some older hardware that is still very usable, and I was thinking about creating a little PD farm, and try networking them all together. Thanks again.
Mike On Dec 28, 2007 9:34 AM, bsoisoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I second that. If your main motivating factor is performance, Linux is > the way to go. I too run a dual boot Linux/OSX system on my 2nd notebook, > and have found Pd patches running in linux to run with *much* less cpu > load than OSX. If you choose to use JACK instead of Portaudio on OSX, you > can reduce their cpu load significantly (fyi, JACK isn't yet compatible with > 10.5). The Mac/Linux system is probably the best of both worlds + you can > satisfy your OS X package needs with Darwinports (which rocks). > As for windows, haven't used it for audio since 1999 and don't intend on > going back. > > Do you have any other main considerations besides price and performance > when looking for a new machine? > > ~Brandon > > > On Dec 27, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Derek Holzer wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > Mike McGonagle wrote: > > Hello all, > > > I was wondering if anyone has done any sort of "Platform" comparisons? I > > am in the market for a new machine, and was just wondering if there were > > any performance comparions for the various platforms for which PD is > > available. > > > More than enough stuff in the archives about this. My take: > > I don't know anything about Windows, haven't touched it since 2002. I do > find that quite a bit of PD is either optimized for or developed with > Linux on Intel architecture in mind. You have the widest choice of > objects available and often running better than on any other platform. > > Additionally, I run Gentoo and OSX both on a PPC Powerbook and > discovered long ago that patches running on the same machine and same PD > version are more than twice as fast on Linux as on OSX. There are > probably many reasons for this, the most recently-discussed one was the > interface with Core Audio. > > If you're up to it, a Linux partition on an Intel machine (Mac or PC) > would be the highest performance way to go. That leaves a lot up to you > still. > > best, > d. > > -- > derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: > http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista > ---Oblique Strategy # 199: > "What would make this really successful?" > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > -- Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. —Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), musician
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