PowerPC vs Intel Mac using iMovie

I own a Dual 2GHz PowerPC PowerMac and it recently took just over 600 minutes to render a 1hr 45min movie I made using iMovie '08 on my PowerMac.
Has anyone done a real world comparison between the Dual PowerPC PowerMac's and the Dual Intel iMac's at rendering with iMovie?
If I'm only going to save maybe a half hours time by going to Intel, then it isn't worth it, but if someone can show a significant delta in time to render between the two machines, I'd like to know.
Mike

"Tom Wallace" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have Dreamweaver CS3 running on a dual 1.8 Power Mac
with 1.5 gigs of
>RAM,
> and I think it's a dog. It's so much slower at
everything than DW8 that I
> find
> it impractical for daily use?especially for managing a
remote site via
> FTP. It
> seems to work much faster and reliably for my colleagues
on Windows XP on
> newish PCs, however, I'm wondering if what I need is a
new Intel Mac. If
> anyone
> is running Dreamweaver CS3 on a MacBook Pro or Mac Pro
system, I would
> like to
> know your impressions.
I just received a brand new MacBook Pro with 2 gigs. I'm
running CS3 Mac and
Win (with Parallels) I don't like the Mac UI and stuff, but I
must say that
I'm very impressed with the performance. I've it hooked to a
20" monitor and
now I barely use my Desktop PC which is a Core2
Quad/2.4Gz/4Gigs/64 bits (to
tell you how good is the MacBook Pro).
I just can't stand the keyboard though...
Thierry
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/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
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Hi!
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Thanks.

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So basically I have:
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2. Some VIs that uses the Call Library Function Node to invoke a function in a Universal Framework. The framework is compiled for both PowerPC and Intel. The PowerPC version includes AltiVec instructions and thus is incompatible with Rosetta. I was wondering if LabVIEW would actually be able to invoke such a function successfully on an Intel Mac. I don't have an Intel Mac on hand, which is why I am asking.
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Can both an intel and a PPC mac use time machine on the same TC?

I just got a TC and have successfully used time machine with a MBP. I was about to install Leopard on my PPC eMac in order to use time machine on the TC but I wondered if they could both use the TC hard drive as it is currently formatted.
As I recall, intel macs use journaled GUID and PPC machines use another format.
Am I deluded?

I don't think there is a problem, and I believe others have reported in these forums that they're doing it.
There is a lot of confusion in this area compounded by a number of people who say that some of the Apple KB articles are wrong/misleading.
But in this case it's more a case of it doesn't matter - here is why.....
The Time Capsule disk comes formatted, you can erase the disk via the Airport Utility. That's the closest you can come to formatting and you don't have options - so it does whatever it needs to do to get it right.
The machines being backed up don't access the Time Capsule's disk(s) directly as they do on a locally attached disk. They do it via AFP network disk protocol and the Time Capsule disk is in effect insulated from the machine being backed up.
(As an aside, it's because of this - the differences in what can be done over AFP - that the Time Capsule stores the backups in a different file format)
If you add a USB attached drive to the Time Capsule you can also erase it with the Airport Utility as above. In my case, I've attached a USB drive to my Time Capsule. I never had the Time Capsule erase it, but before attaching it I attached it locally and formatted it GUID and HFSJ and it work just fine when attached to the Time Capsule. Does it have to be formatted that way - I don't know - all I know is in this one case what I did works which doesn't prove it has to be that way.
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From Macfixit................
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DHCP
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Attempting to log in to an OpenSSH server ("Remote Login") using a nonexistent account causes the authentication process to hang. An attacker can exploit this behavior to detect the existence of a particular account. A large number of such attempts may lead to a denial of service. This update addresses the issue by properly handling attempted logins by nonexistent users. This issue does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X v10.4. Credit to Rob Middleton of the Centenary Institute (Sydney, Australia) for reporting this issue. Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.7, Mac OS X Server v10.4.7
telnet
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WebKit
A maliciously-crafted HTML document could cause a previously deallocated object to be accessed. This may lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by properly handling such documents. Credit to Jesse Ruderman of Mozilla Corporation for reporting this issue. Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X Server v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.7, Mac OS X Server v10.4.7
AppKit, ImageIO
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Aug 3 15:49:43 x-ray /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Error: WirelessAssociate2() = 88001006 for network RadioActive
Aug 3 15:49:43 x-ray /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Error: (had password)
Aug 3 15:49:51 x-ray /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Error: WirelessAssociate2() = 88001006 for network RadioActive
Aug 3 15:49:51 x-ray /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Error: (had password)
Aug 3 15:49:59 x-ray /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Error: WirelessAssociate2() = 88001006 for network RadioActive
Aug 3 15:49:59 x-ray /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Error: (had password)
I can reboot and it will work, but if I put my macbook to sleep it, when I wake it, it will do the same thing again.
I am also getting timeouts waiting for results of 1st wireless scan to complete in console.
Anyone else having this issue?
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The question has come up daily since the Intel Macs were shipped so you might try searching back a few weeks for more definitive information and check the FCP marketing/upgrade pages for a clear explanation of minimum system requirements
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