The Captain and his BIG Mac

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Well my Big Mac arrived on Friday. It nearly killed me getting it home on public transport, but what a beast!

It's an I7 processor and it has 4 cores and hyperthreading. Nothing seems to faze it. I rendered a HD video this morning. On the Macbook it took 10 minutes and on the new one it took 2 minutes, 40 seconds. All 8 cores were at 60-70% and the machine was completely responsive the whole time while rendering :D :D

The screen is utterly magic and I'm looking forward to doing much more with my photography and video now.

[Hastykiwi]

Ahhh the I7's, (and I5's, and core 2 duo's). I have been dealing with the poor suffering customers on a daily basis waiting for Apple to supply these. While I totally admire the apple product, the demand is such you'd think it was a heart transplant they were waiting for!

Anyhoo, nice to see they are shipping at last.

cheers
Nick

[dmdigital]

Think you need a bigger screen:p

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Ahhh the I7's, (and I5's, and core 2 duo's). I have been dealing with the poor suffering customers on a daily basis waiting for Apple to supply these. While I totally admire the apple product, the demand is such you'd think it was a heart transplant they were waiting for!

Anyhoo, nice to see they are shipping at last.

cheers
Nick
I waited a month and a half for mine and took the attitude of it will be here, when it's here. :)

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Think you need a bigger screen:p

I am suffering(not really:cool:) my 21" Hitachi CRT till I can afford a DECENT size LCD,,(actually when I set my room up I could just lift it,, not any more,,,:(:p)

is that a 27" Cap?

[Captain_Rightfoot]

I am suffering(not really:cool:) my 21" Hitachi CRT till I can afford a DECENT size LCD,,(actually when I set my room up I could just lift it,, not any more,,,:(:p)

is that a 27" Cap?

Yep, it's a 27". The laptop next to it is 15.4" for scale.

[juddy]

Well my Big Mac arrived on Friday. It nearly killed me getting it home on public transport, but what a beast!

It's an I7 processor and it has 4 cores and hyperthreading. Nothing seems to faze it. I rendered a HD video this morning. On the Macbook it took 10 minutes and on the new one it took 2 minutes, 40 seconds. All 8 cores were at 60-70% and the machine was completely responsive the whole time while rendering :D :D

The screen is utterly magic and I'm looking forward to doing much more with my photography and video now.

How fast would it render, say a 1 hour edit?

[Captain_Rightfoot]

How fast would it render, say a 1 hour edit?

To be honest I don't know yet. I calculate about 89 minutes at HD (1280*720) which seems like a long time but that's HD and I've arrived at that just by extrapolation so who knows.

[clubagreenie]

I've seen a fully customised dual m/boarded with 4 quad core processors each and 16g ram per board eat 2hrs HD video procesing in under 10 min.

[Captain_Rightfoot]

I've seen a fully customised dual m/boarded with 4 quad core processors each and 16g ram per board eat 2hrs HD video procesing in under 10 min.

My tests were very quick and very simplistic go give myself a guide. I couldn't reproduce it because after the first time it rendered the video in only a few seconds and I am unsure why (clearly using some caching of some sort).

That's one hell of a machine you're talking there. I suspect we're not comparing Apples with Apples... LOL :D :D It doesn't sound like a comparison of an off the shelf machine to me... and I'd bet it was worth far more than an imac...

[clubagreenie]

That's one hell of a machine you're talking there. I suspect we're not comparing Apples with Apples... LOL :D :D It doesn't sound like a comparison of an off the shelf machine to me... and I'd bet it was worth far more than an imac...


About 15k off the shelf, 4 vid cards per machine 2gig ea all linked together in each box and then each box linked in some geeky way I didn't even understand. Used for post production of rendering realtime video to 2/3d graphic displays for simulators.

If anyone runs rFactor here's a download of a recent project completed with real GPS lat/long/alt data synched into realtime video input into a data loger then converted into track data. Dumbed down for the masses without massive video capabilities (took out buildings outside the area that you didn't need to see and gradually re-animating as 2d flats).

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/01/178.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/01/179.jpg

And the d/load http://www.v-eight.com/multimedia/ParramattaPark1952.rar