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Proof polls are worthless - heh [message #62032]

Thu, 29 December 2005 16:15

DC
Messages: 722
Registered: July 2005

Senior Member

of late. Long term support of a
>
>
>>new OS has paid off. Long term vision has come to fruition. You should
>>look into it.
>
>
> None of which has anything to do with the original question, which is whether
> OS X is or is not hindering the possible performance of the hardware on which
> it runs.
>
>
>>>You should read my other post to Jamie. The q

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Re: Proof polls are worthless - heh [message #62033 is a reply to message #62032]

Thu, 29 December 2005 15:30

justcron

Messages: 330
Registered: May 2006

Senior Member

uestion put to me, somewhat
>>>snidely in my opinion, was to prove that I wasn't passing off "urban legend"
>>>about OS X performance being less than fantastic on PPC processors. This
>>>came in response to someone saying a 1.3 Ghz Celeron running OS X was
>
> out-benchmarking
>
>>>much faster/more expensive G5s. I had heard similar things some time back
>>>and investigated and found articles about how poorly multiple threads
>
> are
>
>>>managed. Presented with the fact that, surprisingly considering how dense
>>>I am, I was not peddling "urban legend" Jamie decided that OS X was good
>>>enough for him. This has

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Re: Proof polls are worthless - heh [message #62036 is a reply to message #62032]

Thu, 29 December 2005 16:49

Mark McDermott

Messages: 204
Registered: February 2006
Location: Portland, OR

Senior Member

ion of UNIX maybe more

>>>> efficient
>>>>and more robust as a net work server than Mac OS, however that isn't
what
>>>>Mac OS was geared for. It's nothing more than a pissing match, to say
>> Mac
>>>>OSX is inefficient compared to some other version of UNIX, but at what?
>>>
>>>>You can say that another version of UNIX is better than Mac OSX, but
at
>>>what???
>>>>It's not as usable as a Mac. Certainly not for A/V, multi media! Isn't
>>>>that where the computing world is going???
>>>>
>>>> Mac OSX is geare

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Re: Proof polls are worthless - heh [message #62039 is a reply to message #62032]

Thu, 29 December 2005 17:41

uptown jimmy

Messages: 441
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

me thing about what is going on,FYI
for
>>>>the
>>>>>Mac guys, and you go on the attack. It is obvious you hate Apple
>>>>>Computer,
>>>>>so don't try to come off as an equal opportunity hater, it's insulting
>>> our
>>>>>intellect.
>>>>>
>>>>>Apple as a computer company has been probably the biggest innovator
in
>>> the
>>>>>personal computer industry. It's too bad some people refuse to give
them
>>>>>credit for all their innovation and vision, not to mention some great
>
>>>>>decisions.
>>>>> Through their history they have made some bad decisions, however the
>
>>>>> good
>>>>>decisions have out weighed the bad ones. That is why they are
>>>>>successful.
>>>>> The iPod is a great product, but it is a fact, there is a lot more

>>>&

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Re: Proof polls are worthless - heh [message #62042 is a reply to message #62039]

Thu, 29 December 2005 19:52

dc[3]
Messages: 895
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

f my samples for BFD are on this
>drive. All will be well for a couple of days and then suddenly, for no
>discernable reason, BFD loses the ability to load and stream samples with
>any speed at all. CPU usage goes to around 50% and life just plain sucks.
>Restoring a Ghost of my system drive wherein BFD was working properly prior
>to the Ghosting will fix the problem.
>
>I'm wondering if maybe DMA isn't enabled or there is s

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Re: Proof polls are worthless - heh [message #62043 is a reply to message #62042]

Thu, 29 December 2005 18:52

uptown jimmy

Messages: 441
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

ome bus mastering
>wierdness happening. I can't find the DMA or bus mastering options anywhere.
>I'm running win XPSP1a with DX9 installed. Where the heck do I check this?
>
>2. Gremlin #2-I've got 4 x matched 1G RAM sticks. This is good CAS2 Corsair
>XMS stuff. They all are functioning normally in pairs and three at a time.
>Any three sticks will show up in any three of my RAM slots......plus I have
>tested all of them singly to make sure they show up and are doing the things
>that RAM is supposed to do. However, after adding all four RAM sticks to
the
>4 x RAM slots on the mobo, only 3 gigs of system memory shows up. I have
>tested every RAM slot in the mobo individually in singles, pairs and
>configurations of three and all four of the slots work fine, but when a
>fourth RAM stick is added, only three G of RAM are available as system
>memory. This suck'

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Re: Proof polls are worthless - heh [message #62091 is a reply to message #62042]

Fri, 30 December 2005 09:11

Tony Benson

Messages: 453
Registered: June 2006

Senior Member

ed at all. CPU usage goes to around 50% and life just plain sucks.
>> Restoring a Ghost of my system drive wherein BFD was working properly
> prior
>> to the Ghosting will fix the problem.
>>
>> I'm wondering if maybe DMA isn't enabled or there is some bus mastering
>> wierdness happening. I can't find the DMA or bus mastering options
> anywhere.
>> I'm running win XPSP1a with DX9 installed. Where the heck do I check
>> this?
>>
>> 2. Gremlin #2-I've got 4 x matched 1G RAM sticks. This is good CAS2
> Corsair
>> XMS stuff. They all are functioning normally in pairs and three at a
> time.
>> Any three sticks will show up in any three of my RAM slots......plus I
> have
>> tested all of them singly to make sure they show up a

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