Performance Preferred

kecksykecksy
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
I just saw this article on Digital Video Editing's website (The guys who published those anti-mac articles a while back). Interesting read. According to this man's tests, Macs aren't slow, Adobe software is just slow. He only saw a 10% decrease in rendering times when switching from a single processor to a dual processor machine in After Effects. In Final Cut Pro however, his tests ran in half the time on the dual processor machine. This means if Adobe software actually took advantage of dual processors, Macs be on par with PCs in most benchmarks, but I think we all already knew this.

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    fred_ljfred_lj Posts: 607member
    A sad statement for Adobe. Let's hope Apple's supplied them with a 970 proto and that WWDC won't be their first time ever to encounter its underpinnings. It is completely infuriating to think that a software company would do this at all -- to fail to support their end-customers' equipment. Not unreasonable, but infuriating nonetheless.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    The problem with Adobe most of their software is crossplatform, so they don't focus on optimizing it for the Mac. Most of their PC customers use single processor machines, so Adobe doesn't write mult-threaded code and Mac users with dual processor machines get screwed. Then there's Altivec....
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