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To: Dave who wrote (34124)	7/22/2002 6:47:10 PM
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digitalvideoediting.com Benchmark Duel: Mac vs. PC, Round II Dell 2.53GHz Pentium 4 Runs Circles Around Fastest Mac G4 By Charlie White Page 1 of 3 In our first round of head-to-head Mac vs. PC testing, we pitted a dual Athlon 1800+MP machine against a Mac dual 1GHz G4 using six Adobe After Effects benchmarks that tested all kinds of capabilities. For round two, by popular demand, we now compare a single-processor Dell Precision Workstation 320 with a 2.53GHz chip to the Dual 1GHz Mac, and also to the fastest machine we've tested here so far, a dual Athlon 2000+MP machine by BOXX. And we'll be testing all three machines using not only After Effects 5.5 benchmarks, but Adobe Photoshop 7.0 benchmarks as well. So which machine came out ahead? First, we'd like to settle a few arguments up front by letting you know that we've used the same codec on all the machines for rendering After Effects 5.5 files. Some readers complained that the prior test was rigged because we used a QuickTime codec on the Mac but a Video For Windows codec on the PC, so this time, even though it truly doesn't make even a quarter-second's difference in the render times, we've employed the QuickTime Graphics codec on both PCs and the Mac, even though QuickTime is not considered to be the PC platform's native codec. We've also used exactly the same amount of RAM in each machine, 512MB, because that's how the manufacturers decided to send the machines to us, and we've used the latest operating systems on each platform: OS X 10.1.5 on the Mac and Windows XP version 2002 on each PC. And, contrary to popular belief, there is no special dual-processor version of After Effects 5.5 for the Mac -- the only available version uses both G4 processors. Nor does it make a statistically significant difference to run these benchmarks on OS 9. Also, none of the After Effects benchmarks we used utilize anywhere near the full amount of RAM installed in our test machine, even when accounting for OS X's considerable overhead. For the Photoshop tests, we used the shipping version of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 on both the Mac and the PC, and used an identical graphic for all the testing, along with the same actions scripts on both platforms. We also used exactly the same graphics card on the PCs and a similar card on the Mac. Finally, the Dell Precision Workstation 340 as tested currently retails for $2875, the Mac dual G4 for $3000, and the BOXX dual Athlon 2000+MP for $4000, including a full complement of Sonic Foundry content creation software. Special thanks to all the manufacturers for providing equipment for our testing. ... Conclusion As you see, the dual Athlon is still the fastest PC we've tested, but the single Intel P4 2.53 GHz machine runs a close second, and even beats the dual Athlon on some of the tests. And, as expected, the Mac dual 1GHz G4 could not even come close to keeping up with these two PCs. Even though the P4 machine has only a single processor, it was easy for it to leave the dual-processor Mac far behind.