ed to earlier, they could knock down the learning curve a bit with some thoughtful design decisions to get some functions out of the environment window, and they could improve the visual feedback and layo
n a dual G5 (2.5) and with all the new add-ons, it just seems to get clunkier and clunkier. Apple is moving to the Intel processor to put some much needed juice behind their DAW. That's cool, except they apple have really let down a lot of users who were conviced that their (our) G5 were the king of the hill.. You would not believe how many friends of mine who jumped on the Dual G5 and upgraded Logic as well, figuring that "finaly" we can really see this app(Logic) burn rubber..Well, we were all fooled.. Even more, it seem that certain version of OSX slowed not only Logic down, but other apps as well. sadly, today most of htose users now run PT on their G5's. If you check most online forums, you'd noyice thatthe most requested upgrade users want from
ons that were never vectorized. I weep for them, those sad >little calculations so ill treated by the generic floating point units on >the PPC chips. The never had a chance! sob sob . . . > >TCB > >"LaMont" <jjdpro@ameritech.net> wrote: >> >>Hi James.. >>You wrote: "Altivec is a definite factor >>in how a G4 and G5 perform. I think that is why they went with dual core >>Intel chips, to make up some of the performance loss". >> >>I have to disagree here. There were only a hand full of vendors that were >>actually taking advantage of the Altivec engine(Audio ease-Altiverb), and >>Adobe PhotoShop. A lot of third party developers did not jump onthe Altivec >>wagon. Even our Edmund Parelli, stated that "recoding an App to use the >velocity >>engine was a major task that many , including himself was not willing to >>do".. >> >>So, where di that leave Appple?? Well, if left them with having to "fabricate" >>speed test and other outlandish performance statments. All while, trying >>to convince IMB to make a better faster PPC CPU. Well, as you know, a year >>pasted on the Dual G5, which was still using 7 year cpu technology, Apple >>was was lsoing badly in t