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is Clovertown intel Mac overkill?

Feb 13, 2007 4:00AM PST

Will the mac octo-core be overkill to run Adobe CS2, later CS3, and Corel Painter 9, later 10. I have a 6 year old PC that runs annoyingly slow on a 100MB file, and want to switch to the new mac Pro, but should I wait or buy now? rumored release Feb 20th, but could be later (June)

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Somethings amiss.
Feb 13, 2007 4:54AM PST

100MB is a pittance of what memory we see installed in today's machines. My old desktop has 1GB RAM and that .1GB file shouldn't ding it at all. So that's not it.

Is this old PC fitted with some video card from that era? That's the most common reason I see for sluggish behavior.

Bob

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PC Specs
Feb 13, 2007 5:15AM PST

This is a Dell 8200, P4 1.69GHz, with 768 MB of Ram, Nvidia GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR video card, about 400 gig of Storage

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That will take "patience."
Feb 13, 2007 5:29AM PST

The CPU is on the low side, the FX5200 is no speed demon. The hard disk at 400GB is likely to be current technology so I'd give that item a passing grade.

BUT the 768MB of RAM may be the big clue. This memory may not be too swift if it's the usual issue where the owner installed another stick of ram and unknowingly disabled dual channel RAM (read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_channel ).

Any machine on the Apple site should zip past the Dell at ludicrous speed.

Bob

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(NT) He's gonna go PLAID???
Feb 13, 2007 9:22AM PST