On 8/30/06, Carpenter, James <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm a 20-year MS developer moving to Mac.
My primary motivation is to port a C#/SQLServer
linguistic application to Java/MySQL on Apple.
This is a very DB intensive application, lots
of very complicated queries, with several
hundred executing every few minutes. There
are virtually no DB updates once the data
model is created, There is also a TTS component.
Sometimes the TTS has to run at the same
time as the DB app. This has to run on a
laptop or notebook (seminars, demos, etc).
My question: What should I look for in a maximizing
performance for an app like this? Memory? Speed?
Both? Something else?
Not knowing the size of database involved, etc. I would bet you are
more likely to be IO bound than CPU bound with any of the currently
shipping Mac laptops (MacBook or MacBook Pro).
You likely will want to get a good amount of RAM (can help offset IO
needs because of caching) and the fastest hard disk (in both seek and
xfer times) you can and if you are short on cash drop down to a slower
CPU to make up some of the difference.
Of course if you can visit an Apple store or a reseller and evaluate
what you can directly on a system you are looking at purchasing.
-Shawn
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