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I've seen data manipulation done in advertising and in political campaigning, has it inadvertently happened in benchmarking too? 

What do I mean? Well, both of these are the same graph:



The numbers on the right haven't changed any, but it looks like the second one looks like the red one is winning by a HUGE margin. 

Have the numbers gone so high in computing that benchmarking must necessarily crop out the bottom, leaving no real-world difference between the two figures?

Or is it just that I'm not doing enough graphics-intensive stuff?  I mean, I'm using the things nearly constantly but I'm not using any massively complex Photoshop filters.

Well, with 3GB in the tower and 1 in the laptop, I'm not really hurting for RAM at the moment...

That site hosts with godaddy doesn't it?

Well Rosetta is faster nowadays and Apple is shipping faster intel hardware.

That said, as a pro, I definitely noticed a big performance hit when I tested creative suite Rosetta when it was first released.

If you're making a logo in illustrator, or working on a 72 dpi web site in Photoshop, you're probably not going to notice a performance hit. That type of work is not demanding.

Try and build a massive multilayered high resolution poster or billboard with raster graphics, or a massive multi layered user interface with tons of icons and buttons with multiple states. That's really when you start to notice performance differences.

oatmeal wrote:

MattElmore wrote:

That site hosts with godaddy doesn't it?

Hosts, no.  It's domain name is registered there.  (Hosting is on my .Mac account until they find themselves a server.)

Why?

The "forwarding" service godaddy provides has issues with Safari. You have to reload the page at least once, sometimes twice, before it will load.

Ice Cream Man wrote:

The only trouble I'm having is with Version Cue.

That's true.  Flat out won't work.

pottymouth wrote:

Do you actually USE Version Cue? I've never found a way to fit it into my workflow.

I haven't... that's why I kind of forgot about it not working on the MBP until someone else mentioned it.

oatmeal wrote:

pottymouth wrote:

Do you actually USE Version Cue? I've never found a way to fit it into my workflow.

I haven't... that's why I kind of forgot about it not working on the MBP until someone else mentioned it.

I don't really use it, there was one time when a function in GoLive(i think, i don't really remember) referenced it and it didn't work. Either way, I disabled it in it's .plist, and disabled it from starting. And I haven't had any problems.

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