[PRODIG] Mac v PC recent experience

[Anthony Harrison]

No, I really don't want to provoke more futile squabbling, but I had an interesting experience the other day when I compared the same task on my 3-yr-old G4 350MHz (640Mb RAM) with a new Toshiba PC laptop (P4 2.0GHz, 256Mb RAM). I started Fuji Finepix Viewer converting the same batch of around 120 Fuji S2 .RAF files to TIF, and the difference was striking: the Tosh laptop did them in around 20-25 mins (I wasn't timing it carefully) but the G4 lagged way behind, so when the Tosh completed its task I timed the Mac. It took exactly 81 minutes more to finish the conversion. Now clearly the processor is slower, but I wonder if anyone can say for certain that this (despite lots more RAM) caused the Mac to perform so staggeringly slowly? Might there be some other explanation, or an incorrect setting on my Mac? I freely confess extreme ignorance about Macs, use it only for Photoshop, can't be bothered learning all the Mac tricks. Maybe it's a fault that stops me using Finepix Viewer's batch-rotate command: even with only 2 or 3 iamges, I get the error message "not enough memory"... Must get Bibble, and on present form it'll be for Windows XP not Mac...
Regards, Tony H

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