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Offline Zac67

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Re: Any Apple Quadra Users Here?
« on: April 10, 2009, 12:01:06 PM »
I've always felt the 68k Macs were a bit too sluggish, the first PowerMacs weren't much better - but much of that was caused by the OS, Mac OS <=9 is a very weird story. I've got an old PowerMac 9500 (G4/1000) I'm running OS X Tiger on - quite nifty actually, even on 14 year old hardware...  :lol:
 

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Re: Any Apple Quadra Users Here?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2009, 10:01:10 AM »
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It seems like Peecees want the processor to do all the work.

That was more than a decade ago  - the GPU in my PeeCee has 10-20 times the calculating power of the main CPU. With stuff like DirectX, OpenGL, PhysX, CUDA, ... the GPU severely offloads the CPU today. No current CPU is capable of playing back HD video just on its own.
Playing MPEG-4 video loads the system to a mere 5%. Macs use the same architecture, hence the same situation.

But the Amiga has been there FIRST. ;-)