Gee,
So you mean Adobe is actually moronic enough to base their entire future on a completely biased article comparing two old systems. If you read the article they are getting their data from you will see some very interesting things. He talks about conversations with Dell engineers and spends more time talking about hyperthreading than about the Mac in general.
Wouldn't it be nice if somebody actually did a benchmark with current models? There have been many improvements since the old 1.25 DP that will have a decent effect on performance. I went to Dell's site and configured a machine with the 3.06 and the rest similar specs to the dual 1.42GHz Apple. It wound up about the same price and I would bet they perform about the same in After Effects now.
I guess now the question is "Who gives a crap about After Effects?". Even AE diehards prefer the polished interface and superior capabilities of Final Cut.
Has anybody else noticed how the exact same Charlie White articles all post on 40+ websites at exactly the same time? Seems like somebody is trying to just flood the net with a single view and a single set of benchmarks. I guess I'm just going to have to do some benchmarking of my own. The order for the Dell goes in tomorrow. As much as I hate buying from morons that keep trying to push rebadged Lexmark printers at me I will brave it for you all that deserve another voice. I will say now that no matter what happens I will still prefer working on my Mac, but that is my personal preference. See you again on this thread in 3-5 days.
