New Imac
 

Gent's,

I recently purchased one of those new 20" Intel Core 2 Duo Imacs to replace my 3 year old Sony. The specs are:
OS X (Tiger)
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
256MB VRAM
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
250GB Serial ATA Drive
SuperDrive 8X (DVDR-DL/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0

I've had this Machine for a week now and I must say that so far I am quite impressed with it's performance. It's pretty darn fast and seems stable as all get out. I'm no computer wiz but this thing is beating the pants off of any PC I have ever owned.

Cheers,

John

How does it run the Windows stuff?
 

Just curious as I hear they run Windows stuff "seamlessly"...though the exact definition of seamless remains TBD ;-)

I am probably going to upgrade my G5's to the new ProMacs when Adobe ports the CS suite over.

j

They do run Win XP seamlessly if you use XP w/SP2 as a complete package. In fact, it's an excellent configuration.

Buying a MAC to run Windows is like buying one of those boat/cars from the 60s. If you want a boat and a car, buy a boat and a car; if you want a MAC and a PC, buy a MAC and a PC.

Well...
 

I would just like to not have to have a AMD or Intel box just to run Maya (which all I use on Windows because it has a lot of short coming performance wise on Mac) and then another machine to do all my design/coding/editing stuff.

As it is my home office is like an oven if I run both ^o^

j

Core 2 Duo
 

I'm not surprised the new mac is blazing. Intel's new Core 2 Duo chips are a major step ahead in CPUs. They beat the pants off of corresponding AMD chips and previous Intel chips while running at a lower temp. Great stuff! I'm glad you're enjoying the new machine! :lifter

. . .and the quad chips are expected out next year. Those should be smokers.

Anyone even optimizing for these chips yet?
 

I know that a lot of developers have been having a problems with these new architectures and distributing tasks evenly and efficiently across the chips. Hell look how long it took before apps were even taking advantage of the 64 bit chips.

I wonder what AMD is going to hit back with. I've had both in my day. The last box I assembled was an AMD and it smokes like crazy.

j

Hell, the way technology is jumping lately, my 1 yr old laptop is now considered slow at 2.8 Ghz w/ 2 Gb RAM - I can't afford a new 'puter every year - my boat takes most of my $$, and what's left over goes to books and food and an occasional beer.

Dude, you need to check your priorities!

Kyo-
Open to suggestions on the priorities - I work too much for a whole hell of a lot of anything else except those stated - and my weekends are taken up by sailing and/or working on the boat - boring life. Proof of the boring life can be seen on: www.sailinganarchy.com (link won't work for some reason) - especially today's postings - great knockdown photos.

x_sf_med, the link worked fine for me & I might add I enjoyed it. I just began sailing last summer & found it very addictive. Thanks for the link.
NSDQ

NSDQ-
Wait until you've been doing it as long as I have -addictive, bah! it's a lifestyle after a while. If you ever make it up this way, let me know and we'll take the toy out for a cruise and a couple of brews. As long as it's not a regatta weekend, hmm, importing crew, could work.....

The problem is that software trails hardware by 18 months. By the time the software catches up, the hardware is discontinued. Then the cycle starts all over again. I still have a 'puter that runs Win98 and it does things I can't do in XP so I keep it around even though it's a 233 Mhz Pentium.

I bought a Dell server last year for work with 6 gigs of RAM. Windows Server 2000 could only see 4 gigs of it. To see it all would cost a huge price increase from MS. So we just use 4 gigs for now.

I wish the hardware race would take a break for a couple of years and let the software catch up so we can get the return on our harware investments that we should.

That Earthrace thingamajig is just down the hill from me tonight and leaving for Long Beach in the morning.

Doc, in the future, please hijack threads sooner. :D

Pat

Not sure what your end use is, but I've never found windows to be the greatest in regards to server architecture.

In the "good old days" we used to use eMachines with Seuss Linux on them. Taxing stuff called for Solaris on a Sun server blade.

Now we tend to run stuff on OSX on xServes. They handle the beefy stuff as well as the light stuff. It's a lot more user friendly to configure than some of the Linux flavors,

j