>P4 motherboards have been at 400 mhz for a while now, and recently were >increased to a 533 mhz bus. I wouldn't really call 30% "slightly slower". >The SiS P4 chipsets do have multiple DMA buses similar to the multiple >buses the Macs have, and all Intel P4 chipsets have dedicated certain >amounts of bandwidth to various devices so no one device can congest the >bus, as that article says. Evidently there are a lot of different opinions. The only way this will be settled (temporarily) is find an article where they actually perform the same task on both platforms using the same software. By the way, I was in Hollywood last night and saw BT give a really great talk. He was primarily extolling the virtues of Reason, Logic (the only sequencer that doesn't suck), and Absynth. However someone asked him about PC's and he made it clear that he does not like them at all. He said he keeps one in his stuido just to run Gigasampler, but he hates dealing with it. He also mentioned something about the fake higher speed bus rates of PC's but didn't want to get too technical. He is very happy with various macs - including a Tibook with Oygen - which he uses not only on the plane but also to do mobile live DJ gigs. So if BT can 'suffer' with Macs and get done all he does with DJing, recording albums, producing NSync and Britney Spears, writing movie soundtracks (Fast and the Furious), ...., I'm sure you are wise to wait until Macs meet your technical requirements before moving forward.
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Re: [L-OT] New Macs / Bus speed
2002-08-17 by TazmnianDv@aol.com
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