Improve iMac800/LCD performance
I have a friend who asked me about this and I wanted to help him a bit more so I thought I woudl post here.
This guy could end up being a hard-core switcher and platform defender, but for now he is just a PC user that happens to also own a Mac.
He does a lot of multimedia development and bought an iMac 17 with Superdrive and 800 mhz G4. He has complained a bit about performance issues. It has 768 megs of RAM, a 60 gig (7200 rpm) HD.
I asked him about it and it turns out he likes the machine more and more and so he has started to do more and more with it. It was supposed to test screensavers, Director and Flash animations and things of that nature. Now he is asking me how to get it to encode DV to Quicktime faster and things of that nature. He also complains that Flash MX and some of the Macromedia products are slow on it.
He complained about the encoding performance compared to his PC and SGI box. He was comparing the PC and Mac using Premiere to encode. I suggested Cleaner v.6 but I would really like to see if there is someway to help him squeeze some more performance out of his Mac.
He likes the Mac quite a bit and understands it is a prosumer model that he has started to outgrow. When I suggested a duel tower might be a better route, he was receptive to either selling his current iMac or giving it to his teenage son who has been clamoring for it.
However I would really like to find some solutions that might improve the value proposition of the iMac for him for a bit. It might make him commit even more money and resources to the next Mac he buys.
So the issues again are Macromedia program performance, (Director specifically I believe) and video encoding on a G4@800 mhz with no backside cache.
Nick
This guy could end up being a hard-core switcher and platform defender, but for now he is just a PC user that happens to also own a Mac.
He does a lot of multimedia development and bought an iMac 17 with Superdrive and 800 mhz G4. He has complained a bit about performance issues. It has 768 megs of RAM, a 60 gig (7200 rpm) HD.
I asked him about it and it turns out he likes the machine more and more and so he has started to do more and more with it. It was supposed to test screensavers, Director and Flash animations and things of that nature. Now he is asking me how to get it to encode DV to Quicktime faster and things of that nature. He also complains that Flash MX and some of the Macromedia products are slow on it.
He complained about the encoding performance compared to his PC and SGI box. He was comparing the PC and Mac using Premiere to encode. I suggested Cleaner v.6 but I would really like to see if there is someway to help him squeeze some more performance out of his Mac.
He likes the Mac quite a bit and understands it is a prosumer model that he has started to outgrow. When I suggested a duel tower might be a better route, he was receptive to either selling his current iMac or giving it to his teenage son who has been clamoring for it.
However I would really like to find some solutions that might improve the value proposition of the iMac for him for a bit. It might make him commit even more money and resources to the next Mac he buys.
So the issues again are Macromedia program performance, (Director specifically I believe) and video encoding on a G4@800 mhz with no backside cache.
Nick
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I would not recommend voiding the license, but I heard there is a way to actually overclock the CPU. It involves removing resistors and may just kill the machine. I am not giving you any URLs, because
he can try and run stuff in 9...yuck...but it would run faster