Re: New iMac
On 22/10/2009, at 12:11 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: (Side note to Martin. Should I guess you'd be loving one of these to replace your eyeTVMac) ;o) hehe. All round looks like a nice upgrade I think. Too right - the home Mac is only a dual-core iMac 24 which takes a lot longer to compress videos (using EyeTV in that case) and definitely gets bogged down trying to do too many other tasks simultaneously, but I think we'll be content with it for the next few years at least! :-) -Mart Kind Regards Daniel On 22/10/09 12:01 PM, Martin Hill marth...@iinet.net.au wrote: The Turbo-boost feature of the quad-core Core i5 and i7 chips can shut down unused cores and boost the clock speed of the remaining cores to much faster clock speeds depending on usage: The 2.66 GHz Core i5 has a Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.20 GHz the 2.8 GHz Core i7 can go up to 3.46 GHz in Turbo Boost mode. At the other end of the spectrum, the Core i7 also supports Hyper- threading which effectively gives you twice the number of logical cores for a grand total of 8 cores. If you need to run lots of apps at once or you have things like video compression jobs and VMware and other multi-threaded apps running and want to spread your load over multiple CPUs, this feature can be very useful. The Core i5 however does not support Hyper-threading. I've found hyper-threading very useful on my 8-core Nehalem Mac Pro as with hyper-threading Mac OS X shows it is running on a 16 core monster. I am able to fully max out my 12GBs of RAM running several video compression jobs (which are each multi-threaded over up to 4 cores each), dual-core Windows XP and a second dual-core VM running Vista, and a stack of other Mac apps without any slow downs at all. It is not quite as fast as 16 real cores, but it definitely does encoding and other multi-threaded tasks faster than 8 maxed-out physical cores. (having 4 x 1TB drives hardware RAIDed internally helps a lot as well so that disk access doesn't become the bottleneck). -Mart On 22/10/2009, at 9:32 AM, Craig Bruce wrote: Indeed the 2.66 is a core i5 quad core rather than a core 2 dual core it can also be build with the core i7 as a custom build -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au Twitter Maxstyle_com_au Facebook http://www.facebook.com/maxstyle Disclaimer: The information transmitted on this message is intended only for the person or organisation to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact MaxStyle Pty Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. On 22/10/2009, at 9:17 AM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: Hi Adrian I believe the 'slower' machine has a quad core processor rather than the dual core on the other one. Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone creation On 22/10/2009, at 9:13, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com wrote: Good morning all, Looking at the latest iMac I notice that the 27-inch: 3.06GHz list price is $2,199 and the 27-inch: 2.66GHz is $2,599 that is an extra $300 for a seemingly slower machine. Have I missed something or is 2.66GHz quicker than 3.06GHz? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/ guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -
Re: New iMac
Hi Martin, I don't know too much about video compression but I do use the EyeTV Hybrid a fair bit for recording from a variety of sources and then convert them for viewing in Front Row. I tend to export it as the size it's captured for the best quality I can get. Comparing the i5 or i7 to my 24 iMac with a 2.8GHz, there'll be quite a noticeable difference? Cheers Mike On 22/10/2009, at 3:40 PM, Martin Hill wrote: On 22/10/2009, at 12:11 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: (Side note to Martin. Should I guess you'd be loving one of these to replace your eyeTVMac) ;o) hehe. All round looks like a nice upgrade I think. Too right - the home Mac is only a dual-core iMac 24 which takes a lot longer to compress videos (using EyeTV in that case) and definitely gets bogged down trying to do too many other tasks simultaneously, but I think we'll be content with it for the next few years at least! :-) -Mart Kind Regards Daniel On 22/10/09 12:01 PM, Martin Hill marth...@iinet.net.au wrote: The Turbo-boost feature of the quad-core Core i5 and i7 chips can shut down unused cores and boost the clock speed of the remaining cores to much faster clock speeds depending on usage: The 2.66 GHz Core i5 has a Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.20 GHz the 2.8 GHz Core i7 can go up to 3.46 GHz in Turbo Boost mode. At the other end of the spectrum, the Core i7 also supports Hyper- threading which effectively gives you twice the number of logical cores for a grand total of 8 cores. If you need to run lots of apps at once or you have things like video compression jobs and VMware and other multi-threaded apps running and want to spread your load over multiple CPUs, this feature can be very useful. The Core i5 however does not support Hyper-threading. I've found hyper-threading very useful on my 8-core Nehalem Mac Pro as with hyper-threading Mac OS X shows it is running on a 16 core monster. I am able to fully max out my 12GBs of RAM running several video compression jobs (which are each multi-threaded over up to 4 cores each), dual-core Windows XP and a second dual-core VM running Vista, and a stack of other Mac apps without any slow downs at all. It is not quite as fast as 16 real cores, but it definitely does encoding and other multi-threaded tasks faster than 8 maxed-out physical cores. (having 4 x 1TB drives hardware RAIDed internally helps a lot as well so that disk access doesn't become the bottleneck). -Mart On 22/10/2009, at 9:32 AM, Craig Bruce wrote: Indeed the 2.66 is a core i5 quad core rather than a core 2 dual core it can also be build with the core i7 as a custom build -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au Twitter Maxstyle_com_au Facebook http://www.facebook.com/maxstyle Disclaimer: The information transmitted on this message is intended only for the person or organisation to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact MaxStyle Pty Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. On 22/10/2009, at 9:17 AM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: Hi Adrian I believe the 'slower' machine has a quad core processor rather than the dual core on the other one. Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone creation On 22/10/2009, at 9:13, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com wrote: Good morning all, Looking at the latest iMac I notice that the 27-inch: 3.06GHz list price is $2,199 and the 27-inch: 2.66GHz is $2,599 that is an extra $300 for a seemingly slower machine. Have I missed something or is 2.66GHz quicker than 3.06GHz? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/ guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr
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RE: prezi
Hi Peter What did you mean with paying careful attention to bandwidth costs vs purchase cost of the full version.in your reply?Thanks Martin Subject: Re: prezi From: hinch...@multiline.com.au Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:45 +0800 To: wamug@wamug.org.au On 19/10/2009, at 6:15 PM, gary dorn wrote: my daughter cam home form school and asked if she could use prezi, as recommended by one of her teachers http://prezi.com/ Coolest online presentation tool I have ever seen Techcrunch Insanely great Harvard Business Pretty amazing CNET Love at first use user praise any one got any thoughts/experiences on this. chow -- gary dorn north perth I have no personal experience with this, but given that it' seems to be based on Adobe Air, which works ell on the Mac, has a free version to try which allows you to download your finished presentations, I can't see a downside. It's probably worth a run with the free version for a while before considering upgrading to a paid version, with careful attention to bandwidth costs vs purchase cost of he full version. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au _ Take a peek at other people's pay and perks Check out The Great Australian Pay Check http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: prezi
On 22/10/2009, at 7:55 PM, Martin Sulkowski wrote: Hi Peter What did you mean with paying careful attention to bandwidth costs vs purchase cost of the full version. in your reply? Thanks Martin Only that with the free version everything is done online - all image processing, every change to layout, every changed idea, the download of the final product (Everything!) is a bit more bandwidth used up - so with a large presentation this could conceivably make significant inroads into your monthly traffic allowance. I'm simply saying that it would be useful to run with the free version for a while and see how your traffic costs are affected. It could be that any increase in costs might make it more worthwhile to use one of the paid versions. Only you can make this judgement, bearing in mind that we do have a teenager involved with all this:-) -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: mail
Hi Martin, In Entourage, I just use ³rules² - I set up folders (and sub-folders where appropriate) and just set-up rules to file as appropriate eg: If ³from² is *...@acme.com, move to folder ³acme² (same with ³to² *...@acme.com) The mail is filed even before I read it - so at a glance I can see which unread mail is in an ³important² folder and which can be looked at later. I¹m sure Mail must have a similar feature/tool to do this. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/10/09 7:51 PM, Martin Sulkowski at martin6...@live.com wrote: I'm getting more and more into trouble to keep my e-mails organised. Is there a program available that could have a file called customer and when I need to send him or a supplier an e-mail related to his job ,that this e-mail is automatically in his file.The same for incoming e-mails related to this job. What are you guys using who use e-mail a lot? Will Bento do the job? Thanks Martin Click Here View photos of singles in your area http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/150855801/direct/01/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
