How much faster now vs. 4 years ago?

My computer (Apple iMac Desktop 24" -- 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive) is coming up on four years old. I use it extensively for video production, including Final Cut Studio.
How much faster will the newest iMac model be (for Final Cut Pro rendering, DVD writing, etc.)?
The age-old question: Buy soon, or wait till even better models come out?

How on earth do you manage with only 2GB of RAM? Doubling that, or better would speed up your Mac.
How much faster will the newest iMac model be (for Final Cut Pro rendering, DVD writing, etc.)?
Nobody knows except Apple. The rest of us will know when they anounce it! And of course, Final Cut Pro has been discontinued.
The age-old question: Buy soon, or wait till even better models come out?
Definitely!

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Edge has very clear restrictions, one being that you must have 6 months of clean payment history which you don't. Either wait until April 14, or good luck at Sprint.
I am unsure how it can be determined the payment mix up was the fault of CS, but regardless, the mix up was done. There can be any number of reasons why a payment could be missed without any fault on your part, however you are still the responsible party for the account and must live with the repercussions.

How much discount would a 12 year old kid get for MacBook Pro (13 inch)?

How much discount would a 12 year old kid get for MacBook Pro (13 inch)?
He needs it for school and using iMovie.
Please answer this fast as possible.
Thank you.

None.
Why would you think he would get a discount?

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Hello all,
I have a 20" 2.33Ghz C2D iMac w/256Meg video RAM, and 3Gig of RAM. I understand that many factors come in to play when you compare the over all speed of a computer. How much faster, over all, is the new iMacs over the system I have? Has anyone tested the two next to each-other yet? I am sure the new one is faster in some ways, but is it really lots faster in over all performance, or just a little?
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Hi Patrice,
Within Apple’s slim new 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs are NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, based on our new Kepler-class architecture, which helps make them up to 60 percent faster than last year’s models. This follows news in June that Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display uses Kepler GeForce GPUs.
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http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/10/big-imac-news-less-heft-more-kepler/
So, any Apps that use the GPU to assist GPU should be much faster.
Though I don't see it listed here, it may be too new, I suspect it may be supported...
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

How much fast are the new iMac's?

I've been looking at upgrading my G5 PowerMac for a while and now Apple has just updated the iMac. How much faster are the new models over the just superseded ones and my G5 (spec below).
I mainly us it for my work with Photoshop CS2 and the G5 does a great job most of the time but is showing it's age. I was looking at the 2nd model but for not much more you can get the 27inch screen with better upgrade options.

Hi Craig,
even the very first 2006 released Intel iMacs were faster than the G5 iMacs including yours.
See this Barefeats test http://www.barefeats.com/imcd3.html
Check additional tests on Barefeats on older iMacs against newer ones http://www.barefeats.com/
The new 2010 iMacs of any sort run circles around the 2006 iMacs, so you are in for a very pleasant surprise
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Stefan

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Right now I'm working on data acquisition and process.
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However whenever I run the vi, it's extremely slow because of the MathScript.
Like one of this forum's answer, I did use multiple Mathscripts and try to put
an unnecessary calculation outside MathScript, but still it took a lot of
time to run the vi.
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Beside, I heard that the MathScript in the labview 8.2 has a significant speed improvements.
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Have a good night.
Best regards
aggie

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end
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A(1:3, : ) = B;       % Replacing consecutive (or nonconsecutive) rows with a matrix
A([1 3], [2 4]) = B; % Replacing elements (nonconsecutive rows and columns) with a matrix
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B = A(1:2:end);       % Reading elements (consecutive or nonconsecutive)
Grant M.
Staff Software Engineer | LabVIEW Math & Signal Processing | National Instruments

How much faster is an i7 2.66GHz vs a Intel Core Duo 3.06GHz?

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I need to sort very large Excel files and perform other operations. How much faster would this be on a MacPro rather than my MacBook Pro i7, 2.6, 15R?

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http://www.primatelabs.com/blog/2012/12/imac-27-late-2012-benchmarks/
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Bengt Wärleby wrote:
.. But may be it would be to complex.
you see from time to time such comparison charts in printed mac magazines .. I usually ignore, me no engineer
and: it could be a nice task for a comunity, to download (=not 1h, perhaps 5min?) a 'standard' video and post everybodys result to create a 'reallife chart' .. not complex, but asking too much of .. community. ...- in my small perspective, very little people are interested in movie making (and associated topics), and most people own 'their' Mac.. what need, to know the encoding times on others? kinda academic discussion ... a pro will allways ask for 'max', and amateurs like us have other criteria for buying a Mac (size of wallet)
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