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Like I need an excuse to buy the shiny...
Jan. 10th, 2009 10:13 amI have one process cleaning 3 hours of noisy video. I have another process generating a QuickTime reference movie which incorporates my compression and chapter markers. A third process is busy building a VIDEO_TS folder (of yet another video). (Obviously, I'm also running a web browser, iTunes, text editor etc.)
I've officially pinned the CPU utilization on my almost 5 year old PowerMac G5 (dual 2.5GHz processors). Woo hoo!
(Secretly, I think I could do this with either the cleaning, or the building by itself. However, the cleaning would have taken over a day by itself. I should be interesting to see how long I'm making it take now.)
If I ever find myself building DVDs on even a semi-regular basis, I now have an excuse to upgrade to something substantially more computationally powerful. Of course, I suspect your typical low-end laptop may be more powerful than the PowerMac I bought in 2004. However, blah blah blah, I'm not listening to that.
Of course, being prone to tech lust, I never need an excuse to buy the shiny, just the money...
(Oddly, remembering how it felt, in, I think, 1994, when my gross income finally sneaked into the 5 figure territory can really calm the tech lust down. I know there were people worse off than me then and there are certainly people worse off than me now. However, it's worth remembering what I had to do then that I don't have to do now.)
This said, I figure about a year after Apple drops support for PowerPC, I'll have to do something or else I won't be able to run the latest software. We'll see how that goes...
I've officially pinned the CPU utilization on my almost 5 year old PowerMac G5 (dual 2.5GHz processors). Woo hoo!
(Secretly, I think I could do this with either the cleaning, or the building by itself. However, the cleaning would have taken over a day by itself. I should be interesting to see how long I'm making it take now.)
If I ever find myself building DVDs on even a semi-regular basis, I now have an excuse to upgrade to something substantially more computationally powerful. Of course, I suspect your typical low-end laptop may be more powerful than the PowerMac I bought in 2004. However, blah blah blah, I'm not listening to that.
Of course, being prone to tech lust, I never need an excuse to buy the shiny, just the money...
(Oddly, remembering how it felt, in, I think, 1994, when my gross income finally sneaked into the 5 figure territory can really calm the tech lust down. I know there were people worse off than me then and there are certainly people worse off than me now. However, it's worth remembering what I had to do then that I don't have to do now.)
This said, I figure about a year after Apple drops support for PowerPC, I'll have to do something or else I won't be able to run the latest software. We'll see how that goes...
