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Also, if Christian might contribute, I'd like to hear his thoughts on putting an eight core configuration in a computer designed for four or less cores. As VSL users, where's the hidden danger, the "gotcha's"?
...Apple, of course, did not ask me in advance if I wanted to wait until Logic 7 was released and they refused to offer me an upgrade at less than the going price - - it would have been different, an Apple representative said, if the computer and software had arrived within 2 weeks (i.e. not 17 days) of Logic 7's release (I missed the "deadline" by three days.) A rather memorable experience of customer service at its best. ...
...and waiting until WWDC was ill-advised. I consider this more of a mollifying than a full-blown roll-out, particularly after reading Christian's comments.
@Plowman said:
Good links. Thanks.
"The Mac Pro outperforms the Power Mac G5 when it comes to integer calculations and scalar floating point calculations, while the Power Mac G5 outperforms the Mac Pro when it comes to vector floating point calculations and standard library memory performance."
Now, if only I knew how and to what extent that impacted our VI / EXS performance. Time will tell.
I doubt Apple will release redesigned Mac Pros at WWDC in June. A 2-months lifespan for these 8-core Mac Pro seems very short to me.
But really the question we need to be asking is what this means to musicians. The idea of having eight processors to handle plug-ins (both instrument and processing) is appealing, but is that going to happen? I've read lots of conflicting reports about how this works - that the OS handles it automatically and it will make a big difference, that it does very little and won't make a difference, that developers can address individual cores, that they can't...I have no idea what it means.
