[nrubenstein]

Dear Mac Seti Gurus:

I recently switched back to Apple for my laptop from a PC to the 1 gh 15" TiBook with 1 gig of ram, etc (and have a 17?"AlBook on order since 1/10).

I've owned Macs in the past for personal use, but mainly PC?s due to work, etc. I am now thinking of switching my main desktop and ancillary machines to Macs as well - OS X 10.2 is THAT good compared to Win XP Pro . I am concerned, though, at the rather pitiful output I am getting on my Mac compared to my Pentium P4 computers in crunching Seti@Home work units.

I tried the GUI Seti program for OS X with my TiBook and was averaging only 1 WU per 12 hours. I replaced the OS X GUI program with the applicable Unix CLP, and increased my WU output to one every 7.5 hours. However, my P4 1.5 gh averages 1 WU per 5 hours, and my P4 2.5 gh, 1 WU per 3 hours.

Is there anything I can do to increase the WU production on my 15" TiBook and upcoming 17" AlBook (both 1 gh G4)? Also, were I to go crazy and splurge on one of the new dual 1.42 gh PowerMacs, what type of WU production is realistic to expect from this computer?

Many thanks,

Norm

[Scotttheking]

Hmm.
Scottsdale.
Last name of Rubenstein.
Do I know you (or your kids if you are older)?

I'm going to guess that the 1.42 can do 2 WU every 6 hours or so, running 2 command line clients.

The P4 does well because for whatever reason seti really likes memory bandwidth.
So even though the P4 isn't that good of a processor, it still does half decent at seti.

There really isn't much you can do for the laptops other then overclock, which I highly doubt you want to do. Of course, if you want to unload that 15, I'll be happy to take it off your hands

Welcome to the forums.

--Scott