Anyone received their Intel iMac?

[Bubbasteve]

Thanks for the tests so far Bubbasteve!

Could you try a 1080p trailer from http://www.apple.com/trailers?

And if you install the free WMV Quicktime codec from http://www.flip4mac.com (although it's not Universal Binary yet, soon is), could you try a 1080p WMV from http://www.wmvhd.com?

Would be nice to know if they run without dropping frames.

Thanks again

Just watched Superman returns trailer in 1080p and I didnt experience any dropped frames... haven't tries flip4mac yet... I'll do that later

 

[RichP]

Does anyone have a link to that photoshop test where it applies a blur to that horse pic? I would be anxious to see the difference. (rosetta speed) Does anyone know any tests that he can run that will show the speed difference? Preferably something in ilife because it is universal.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/136593/

Perhaps 2 people with iLife '06 could devise their own test based on this image? I dont have iPhoto, so I dont know the effects it is capable of. Basically find something and crank the quality and complexity up so you arent trying to measure a very short event, but a long one (decreases error).

 

[MartinAyla]

Just watched Superman returns trailer in 1080p and I didnt experience any dropped frames... haven't tries flip4mac yet... I'll do that later

Ok, sounds good... Looking forward to hearing about WMV-HD.

 

[yoak]

Lucky man.
Congratulations Bubbasteve.
Thanks for the postings

 

[jhero]

Quick, now try to run 3 h.264 1080p trailers at once!

 

[MacTruck]

Well its official then. one minute photoshop test time under rosetta is amazing. My dual 2ghz G5 gets like 49 seconds. I have been on the fence pulling my hair out about the G5 quad but now I am definately waiting for the quad intel powermac. My dual 2 barely runs HD video at 1080. When I first got it with the geoforce fx card it was choppy, then stuck the 9600 pro card in it and it was ok, then stuck the 800 card in it and it ran smooth. If the intel runs hd video smooth then its pretty fast.

Nope, waiting for the intel macs for sure. THis is all good news.

 

[y0zza]

What was the CPU usage when playing the 1080p trailer?

 

[BakedBeans]

Well its official then. one minute photoshop test time under rosetta is amazing.

yeah i was super impressed with that.

My dual 2ghz G5 gets like 49 seconds.

This really looks to be some machine - it will be fater than the dual 2.3 on that basis.

If the intel runs hd video smooth then its pretty fast.

people are saying its capable of running three really smoothly

Nope, waiting for the intel macs for sure. THis is all good news.

that is wise - they will be absolute monsters

 

[kyeblue]

One thing to keep in mind is that the machines at Macworld were all loaded with 2 gigs of RAM. It will be interesting to see how having less RAM might affect Rosetta's performance.

yes! i am getting 2G RAM.

 

[ITASOR]

Plus heres a vid of the macbook pro in action and it looks to be going real quick through the stuff the guy is doing on it.

http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=650

Sorry to rip on that video, but the guy demoing the MacBook is a terrible demonstrator. He doesn't even know half the things so he has to look on Apple's page...I mean COME ON. He has to look the graphics chip up, then sounds surprised. Someone asks why they eliminated FW800 and he doesn't even answer. Man.

 

[Bubbasteve]

What was the CPU usage when playing the 1080p trailer?

According to the "mini" widget it varied between 60-70%... really no way to determine it because it shot from 40 to 90 then varied between 60-70%

 

[jhero]

Try to run 3 of em at once

 

[DVK916]

According to the "mini" widget it varied between 60-70%... really no way to determine it because it shot from 40 to 90 then varied between 60-70%

NOT GOOD. The G4 is able to play 1080p while staying bellow 50%

 

[Daveway]

According to the "mini" widget it varied between 60-70%... really no way to determine it because it shot from 40 to 90 then varied between 60-70%

Hands down, we have an HD winner. My G5 1.8 chokes at 100% playing 720p with auto setting.

 

[BakedBeans]

NOT GOOD. The G4 is able to play 1080p while staying bellow 50%

LOL ok then

 

[MacTruck]

NOT GOOD. The G4 is able to play 1080p while staying bellow 50%

Bull.

 

[punkmac]

G4 playing 1080p?

NOT GOOD. The G4 is able to play 1080p while staying bellow 50%

Ah, there's got to be some kind of mistake, I don't think ANY G4 can play 1080p.

I get like 1 frame every 10 secs on my 1 ghz flat panel.

Anyway I think I'm really being swayed by this machine.

I.

 

[y0zza]

NOT GOOD. The G4 is able to play 1080p while staying bellow 50%

Not the G4 that I know...

My 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook can just about play the Spiderman trailer at 720p with 80-100% CPU utilisation and occasional frame drops.

 

[Bubbasteve]

NOT GOOD. The G4 is able to play 1080p while staying bellow 50%

To tell you the truth my 60-70% was just a guess because (at least according to my widget) the cpu was all over the place... when it started it was like 15 then jumped to 56(?) then 96 back to 45 then to 74 (I'm not sure about the numbers but that's my guess)

 

[ksgant]

For what it's worth

I just tested on my AMD X2 4200+ Dual Core PC running XP with 1Gig of RAM and a 200 Gig SATA HD.

With WinXP on this system, Photoshop CS2 loads in 22 seconds.

Again, for anyone that's keeping tabs on this sort of thing......Oh and btw I have problems getting a 1080p from playing without some skips, so take that into consideration also.

 

[Bubbasteve]

Try to run 3 of em at once

The intel was saying yes but the RAM was saying no.... RAM won this round

aka after trying to run 3 1080p trailers at once Quicktime just quit on me

 

[nospleen]

The intel was saying yes but the RAM was saying no.... RAM won this round

aka after trying to run 3 1080p trailers at once Quicktime just quit on me

I see you have a 1.5 PB. Try doing something in ilife on both of the machines and time the difference. (please)

 

[GFLPraxis]

Universal binaries = stupid.

Trying to be all things for all people has NEVER been efficient. If they are going to do this right they need to choose one or the other.

This is simple ignorance. The universal binary just means that in the application, there is a standard PowerPC binary and a standard Intel binary. Removing the PowerPC binary will make no difference on performance.

 

[jhero]

lol, good try though

 

[DVK916]

This is simple ignorance. The universal binary just means that in the application, there is a standard PowerPC binary and a standard Intel binary. Removing the PowerPC binary will make no difference on performance.

But would that not double the size of the program.