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G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by videoart on Aug 13, 2007 at 7:27:27 pm

I am looking for advice regarding the possible replacement of my G5 Dual 2.7 GHz with a new 15" MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel core2 Duo. Anyone aware of benchmarks comparing these two? any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by CharlieX on Aug 13, 2007 at 9:51:12 pm

My 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro is roughly twice as fast as my Dual G5 2.5

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2007 at 1:06:20 am

Interesting. My 2.44 MBP is slower than my Dual 2.5 G5 comparing AfterFX renders. The G5 is using a faster SCSI drive which could account for the difference.

John

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by Scott Robinson on Aug 14, 2007 at 1:36:40 pm

Curious, are you using the new After Effects that is Universal or an older version that is running through Rosetta on your MBP?

Scott Robinson
President
Take 2 Productions, Inc.
http://www.take2productionsinc.com

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by John Fishback on Aug 14, 2007 at 1:50:40 pm

Bingo. That's it. I'm using AE6.5.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.8 QT7.1.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.1.2, DVDSP4.1.1, Comp2.3, STP1.1, Motion 2.1.2)
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neuman U87s, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by videoart on Aug 14, 2007 at 1:57:54 am

Charlie,

what is the configuration of your G5, RAM? Additional drives? Drive type? SATA? SATA 300?
are you editing with an external drive? USB? FW 400? 800?
Thanks for your help?

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by CharlieX on Aug 14, 2007 at 3:21:41 pm

G5 has 4GB RAM, and I mainly work from G-Tech FW800 drives and our XSAN over fibre.... so it's pretty speedy on the storage end.

Most of my speed tests were using Shake or CS3. I connected my Macbook to the Xsan via gigabit, so the G5 still had a slight advantage... but in Shake the macbook easily outran my G5 2:1

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by videoart on Aug 14, 2007 at 5:10:41 pm

thanks Charlie!

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Re: G5 vs. MacBook Pro
by Will Griffith on Aug 15, 2007 at 12:10:54 pm

Just using a Quad G5 and a 2.2Ghz Cor Duo MacBook Pro last night side by side I noticed
that disk speed makes a pretty big difference when editing in FCP. The Quad G5 wins hands
down IMO.

Now compressor on the other hand... I think is tailored to Intel chips because the MacBook Pro
is easily 50% faster encoding the same clips.

After Effects (CS3) is faster rendering on the MacBook as well. It stinks that they did not write
the software to take advantage of G5 multicore processors.

Will Griffith
Producer/Editor

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