Re: Developer Transition System
Re: Developer Transition System
- Subject: Re: Developer Transition System
- From: Shaun Wexler <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:37:50 -0700
On Jul 22, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Rush Manbert wrote:
When our system arrived we ran into the same issue, but I already
had a Hyundai ImageQuest L90D flat panel monitor. It's 19 inches,
1280 x 1024, and has both VGA and digital inputs. Worked great, and
they're not very expensive. (Certainly cheaper than any Apple
display. But not as cool :-)
The 30" Apple Cinema Display is a bargain 10 times over, in
comparison: I remember [in early 1994] paying $3600 for my Apple 21"
RGB behemoth (90+ lbs), $3500 for my first Mac, a Quadra 840av (plus
an additional $1100 for the 32 MB upgrade to 40 MB) and the 11x17"
Apple Color Printer which was $2900 "on sale". Subsequently I bought
a few new Apple Multiple Scan 20" monitors at $2800 (the identical-
tubed Sony version was selling for $1100), and then several more when
the price dropped to $1750... I ran 3x Apple MS 20" on the 3x of the
fastest MacTell 8 MB display cards available at the time, on a
9500/200 and then on a 9600/350 with a 4x SCSI-3 RAID-0, on 8.6 for
Pro Tools. There were 13 PCI cards in that thing including its
expansion chassis, and it was a fast and highly responsive system,
even compared to current hardware on Mac OS X!
I only hope that Xcode doesn't continue to get SLOWER as hardware
becomes faster. It's tough to develop on v2.x when the older more-
responsive v1.5 is so much faster under Panther. Right now, Xcode
2.x doesn't even keep up with my typing. Cut/paste has a several-
second latency. All code-sense features are disabled. No SCM.
Files aren't huge. Local HD storage sustains 230 MB/sec. I've tried
to trim it down to the minimum features, but it's still slow. Is it
SQLite underneath? Fingers are crossed for huge improvements coming
down the pipeline... ;)
--
Shaun Wexler
MacFOH
http://www.macfoh.com
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The
important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
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