View single post by Robert

Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2012 09:52

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It seems more dependent on the OS than to hardware Rob, each of the OS upgrades has dealt with this a bit differently. Unless each of those computers was running the exact same build of OSX the comparisons are not really meaningful. We are seeing huge variations in speeds between builds and point versions on the same computers.

Apple's goal is that the application software is not core aware, the OS deals with threading the memory and the cores. With the Mac Pro they are affected by the exact memory configuration, that determines the threading.

With the Mac Mini's the i7 is much more powerful than the previous two base model Mac mini's I have. Not really a surprise... I found the base model Mac mini's perfectly OK for my needs. As was demonstrated by opening 1,750 D200 NEF's all at once. The use of the software was unaffected, It just took a while to save 1,750 JPEG's!

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