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  1. 10th January 2010, 07:46 PM #1
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    The Captain and his BIG Mac

    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

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

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    Think you need a bigger screen
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hastykiwi View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dm_td5 View Post
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    I am suffering(not really) 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,,,)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift View Post
    I am suffering(not really) 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,,,)

    is that a 27" Cap?
    Yep, it's a 27". The laptop next to it is 15.4" for scale.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot View Post
    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

    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?
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    Quote Originally Posted by juddy View Post
    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by clubagreenie View Post
    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 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...
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