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Here come da Judge...
On 4/1/14, 12:23 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/1/2014 12:07 PM, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... Ahh. The point was not whether what you do with a computer could be done faster on a more powerful computer with a modern OS. As I stated several times, I have no idea what you do with a computer beyond running some weather app and a "jukebox." I mentioned video transcoding because it is a good test of the OS, the app, and the hardware. There are any number of other apps that run faster on modern gear. Apparently what you do doesn't put much stress on your computer setups, and since you have lots of time to wait, procedures that run faster are not important to you. I don't do "video transcoding" and never will. OTOH I'm a gamer. Macintosh just doesn't cut it. Windows does. I've done video transcoding on both a Vista computer and a Win 7 (both 64 bit) computer. Yeah, depending on the video it can take 20 or 30 minutes to complete but how often do I do it? Not very. I've never tried it on my iMac but it wouldn't perform like Harry's. He tricks his computers out with max RAM and the "best" of everything. Mere mortals like me that use computers for common, everyday stuff don't do that. RAM is cheap, and maxing it out can make a difference if you have to manage really big files or if you want to run a number of tasks/software packages simultaneously. I'm a big fan of movies from the beginning of the "talkie" era on through about 1970, including many so-called historical "avant-garde" films from Europe and Central and South America, such as, for example, Bergman, Jean-Luc Goddard, del Toro, and about a dozen others. Not all their films are readily available these days on DVD or VCR, so I've been making copies of them when I can for decades. Many decades.  There's pretty good transcoding software available for Apple and of course for other operating system software. |
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