The Logic Off Topic list

At 09:43 PM 13/08/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>The most significant improvement with regard to running Logic on these
>>new
>>machines would seem to be the improvement in the memory bandwidth
>
>- faster bus
>- faster type of RAM

The FSB speed change and the RAM change boil down to the same thing -- DDR
RAM instead of SDRAM. Now the G4 has a similar FSB/memory to the Athlon XP
and the P4 with DDR. P4 with RDRAM is still the fastest memory interface
but RDRAM is still expensive. The most significant improvement is that the
memory bandwidth has gone up by 150% to 2.7 GB/sec. PCI bus is still at the
desktop standard -- 32 bits wide and 33 Mhz. 

>- faster processor
25% faster at the high end

>- Nvida graphics board on entry level powermac

Logic places low demands on graphics systems so state of the art 3D is nice
but irrelevant to Logic. 

>- dual processors on the entire line

Neither of these last two changes will make a big improvement in Logic
performance on System 9.2. When Logic runs on 10.2 we will be able to see
what the benefits of dual processing on that platform for Logic users. 

Regards,
Murray