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  • Future Support for Mac PowerPC processor?

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    Dear VI Developers,

    I am intending to purchase a Mac system primarily to run Vienna Instruments. As you all know, the situation with Mac is a bit confusing at the moment -- if I didn't need to make a move now I'd certainly wait until the Mac-Intel desktops are ready, but unfortunately that's not an option.

    My question is: if I purchase a Dual 2.7 with the Power PC processor, will Vienna Instruments guarantee (?) to support this processor in future updates? And for how long (1 year? 6 months?)? Can you offer any assurance on this?

    I can well understand that optimisation of the Mac-Intel version will begin to take priority very soon (if not already!)

    I am proposing to go for the Dual 2.7 rather than the Quad to benefit from using a Lynx interface. Presently Lynx offer PCI but not PCI-Express solutions (the Quad has PCI-Express only). The proposed system is below --if anyone has any comments or advice I'd be very grateful.

    One further question: have Vienna Instruments published System Requirements for the Mac yet? Will the system below run a reasonable number of simultaneous VI's OK? Thanks in advance for your replies.

    Mac Dual 2.7
    2 Gig RAM
    2 X 250 Gb Hard drives (IBM Deskstar)
    Lynx 2 or Lynx Aurora 8 + AES16
    Logic 7.1/7.2
    Kontakt 2
    VI solo strings to begin (other VIs when affordable)

    Patrick
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    patrick, as long as apple supports PPC (read: unless apple declares PPC as *legacy system*) we can and will also support them.

    on a not even so powerfull system (although slightly more RAM) you get 24 instances, 45.000 samples loaded and 300 stereo voices.
    detailed results will be posted by paul soon

    christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
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    Hello Christian,

    Many thanks for your reply.

    That many stereo voices sounds impressive. Enough to make one or two composers blush, I would have thought...

    Thanks again - I'll wait patiently for the Mac tests (which I since discovered from another thread are under way).

    Patrick
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    @Patrick Ozzard-Low2 said:

    Hello Christian,

    Many thanks for your reply.

    That many stereo voices sounds impressive. Enough to make one or two composers blush, I would have thought...

    Thanks again - I'll wait patiently for the Mac tests (which I since discovered from another thread are under way).

    Patrick


    Just got off the phone with my Mac guy. He feels the same as I do - wait for the Intels.