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Fyi
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I've been running the Xeon client on my Corei7 iMac in the faux 8-core mode for months now
and went from an average of about 1100 on my old G5 to almost 10,000 RAC.
"Your mileage may vary"...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jan 31, 2011 at 09:11 PM, in Team MacNN |
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Garageband: hyperthreadable after all
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Guess what:
Entering this string into terminal:
defaults write com.apple.garageband MD_AllowVirtualCores -bool yes
Makes Garageband hyperthreadable since it was built on logic.
The...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Oct 16, 2010 at 10:28 AM, in Applications |
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Sigh
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It's not just the SOUND of the amplifier but the playing feel. A cranked tube amp either on the guitar side or bass side has an interactive touch sensitivity component involved that is extremely...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Sep 14, 2010 at 11:17 AM, in Mac Desktops |
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Thinking...
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Trying to find a good box that will hold multiple SATA drives and is firewire 800 compatible.
(Anyone got some good sources? Newegg?).
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jul 16, 2010 at 05:37 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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iMac to G5 interfacing ideas?
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All:
Well, due to the generosity of my wife I ended up with a surprise birthday gift of a Corei7 iMac recently and my previous machine is a G5 2.5 ghz machine with 8 gigs of ram.
I've got two...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jul 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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What kind of RAC are you achieving Bill?
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What kind of RAC are you achieving Bill?
Just curious to know what I can expect. And yes, all eight "cores" are chugging away.
Lots faster than my G5 2.5 (anywhere between 1-5 hours per work...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jul 6, 2010 at 07:55 PM, in Team MacNN |
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Yep...
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Yep. PPC970FX v3.0 have 512 kilobyte caches. I think if this machine had larger caches (ala 2 MB or so)
it still would be a monster even today but that would be impossible to add on so......
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jun 24, 2010 at 05:52 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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Yes, it's really done well for me. I've...
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Yes, it's really done well for me. I've recording several dozen full length CD projects with it, at least one full length concert DVD and dozens of little youtube clips.
it's my main "surf the...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jun 24, 2010 at 05:49 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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Update
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I got an e-mail from Adobe today confirming that PPC 1080P playback thru youtube (and presumably other
flash sites like Vimeo etc) have problems with frames dropping etc.
They filed this as bug...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jun 11, 2010 at 03:16 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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Ah!
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That asteroid one is only 720p on the top end from what I can see.
This is the video that I've been playing as a testing platform and I also have the native .MP4 file:
YouTube - Nvidia...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jun 11, 2010 at 08:17 AM, in Mac Desktops |
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Latest
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RC7 is out as of today at labs.adobe.com. Try it!
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Posted by Todd Madson, on Jun 3, 2010 at 11:09 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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Update:
Last night I began to think that...
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Update:
Last night I began to think that some of these issues were caused by some external issue as at times the thing was working great, and at other times it wasn't.
As I've posted before I...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on May 27, 2010 at 03:27 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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Update:
The machine seemed to stabilize...
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Update:
The machine seemed to stabilize after 3-4 days of inconsistent behavior but I suspect I now know what has happened: there is some hardware damage after all.
The machine "mostly works"...
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Posted by Todd Madson, on May 25, 2010 at 02:43 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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Heh!
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You can never tell with that Doctor Who character, he's always up to something!
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Posted by Todd Madson, on May 25, 2010 at 02:35 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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