Is an MBP powerful enough as an upgrade ?
I currently have a Powermac G5 (dual 2Ghz) that I would like to pass on to my wife.
Is the MBP powerful enough to be considered an upgrade to the G5 ?
I primarily use it for Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Final Cut Express HD, Xcode and WoW. I can accept Photoshop and Final Cut Express being slow due to emulation until next year when CS3 is released. All of the others are univeral binaries.
I think one of my big issues is around disk capacity and performance... Is there any way to hook up a couple of large SATA disks to an MBP ?
Does this seem like a feasible upgrade or would I have to look at the Mac Pro ?
I wnt from a G4 tower to a Core Duo Macbook a few months ago & picked up a C2D 2.33 MBP last night. I can tell you a fair bit about real-world performance comparisons between these machines & a friends G5 dual where rendering in After Effects is the test.
To start, I rendered a vector-heavy project on my old G4 867mhz tower, & it took 27 minutes. The same project on the first Macbook (single Duo) took 11 minutes, & then just over 5 minutes on the dual G5. This was enough to prompt me to start using the macbook for work as well as @ home surfing etc. that I had originally been considering it for. With a large external monitor & a stand it sets up nicely as a workstation.... After using it this way for I while, I realized having my computer & work files wherever I was was a HUGE benefit to my freelance animation business. I have set the macbook up & rendered with it in the trunk of my car while I went grocery shopping, how cool is that?
ANYWAY, to get to the real point, having just picked up the MBP last night, one of the first things I did was load After Effects & re-render a project that I had built on the Macbook, & rendered there in 3 hrs. 40 minutes. On the MBP, it took 2 hrs 10 minutes, & probably puts it in line with the performance of that G5 now, I would speculate. When the universal Adobe apps come out? This thing will be PLENTY fast for my needs, & portable as well!
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